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Feb 16, 2021 Cherkizovo stops poultry export to China after Covid scandal Russia’s largest poultry producer, Cherkizovo, has suspended poultry exports to china after a product package the company supplied to the country tested positive for the Covid-19 genome, the company said in a statement on its website. Cherkizovo Group said they intended to launch a comprehensive investigation to pinpoint when the virus landed on the shipping packaging in the long logistics process. “The Covid-19 genome was identified during the inspection of external shipping packaging of frozen products at a Chinese port several months after these products entered the logistics...