{"id":2726,"date":"2020-12-14T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2020-12-15T12:13:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:13:25","slug":"environmental-monitoring-shows-sars-cov-2-contamination-of-surfaces-in-food-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/14\/environmental-monitoring-shows-sars-cov-2-contamination-of-surfaces-in-food-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Monitoring Shows SARS-CoV-2 Contamination of Surfaces in Food Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] <\/i>In a study collecting 22,643 surface samples from 116 food processing facilities in the US from Mar 17 to Sep 3, 2020, 1.2% of the total samples tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR. 62 (53%) facilities had at least one sample positive for SARS-CoV-2. Among the positive samples, 33% were found on doorknobs\/handles. The authors suggest that environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 may aid in identifying workplaces with SARS-CoV-2 transmission.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Ming et al. (Dec 11, 2020). Environmental Monitoring Shows SARS-CoV-2 Contamination of Surfaces in Food Plants. Pre-print downloaded Dec 14 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.12.10.20247171\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.12.10.20247171<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] In a study collecting 22,643 surface samples from 116 food processing facilities in the US from Mar 17 to Sep 3, 2020, 1.2% of the total samples tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR. 62 (53%) facilities had at least one sample positive for SARS-CoV-2. Among the positive samples, 33% were found on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/14\/environmental-monitoring-shows-sars-cov-2-contamination-of-surfaces-in-food-plants\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}