Avoid eating novelty food, agency says
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THE Food and Drug Administration yesterday advised people against eating wild animals and “novelty” foods during the Spring Festival holiday.
People from some parts of China, such as Guangdong Province, sometimes like to eat animals like snakes and rats during the annual break.
The agency, however, said people — and especially the elderly, children, pregnant women and those with food allergies — should stick to “normal” food and avoid anything “uncommon.”
To support the appeal, it has stepped up its nationwide food safety inspection ahead of the Spring Festival, which falls on February 19.
In 2013, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said that a species of Chinese bat was the source of the deadly SARS virus in 2002.
A recent study on SARS confirmed findings from 2005 that identified bats as the natural hosts of coronaviruses closely related to SARS.
The virus killed about 800 people in 2002 and 2003. Palm civets were previously believed to be the source of the virus.
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