Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
In late December 2019, Chinese health authorities reported a cluster of sudden pneumonia. A cluster is a temporal and local accumulation of cases. The pneumonia cases were caused by a novel, previously unknown coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. The disease spread rapidly from China to Europe and the rest of the world, resulting in the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring a pandemic, or global epidemic, on 11 March 2020.
Risk mitigation measures for SARS-CoV-2 positive fur farms
SARS-CoV-2 has increasingly spread among humans in Finland. In Europe, SARS-CoV-2 infections have been recorded in animals in mink farms, leading the Finnish Food Authority’s Department of Animal Health and Welfare to request a summary of the coronavirus threat posed to humans by farmed mink. The report was originally published in Finnish on 30.9.2021 and translated in September 2023.
Risk mitigation measures for SARS-CoV-2 positive fur farms (pdf)
Zoonosis risk of the coronavirus — SARS-CoV-2 on mink farms
SARS-CoV-2 has increasingly spread among humans in Finland. In Europe, SARS-CoV-2 infections have been recorded in animals in mink farms, leading the Finnish Food Authority’s Department of Animal Health and Welfare to request a summary of the coronavirus threat posed to humans by farmed mink. The report was originally published in Finnish on 30.11.2020 and translated in September 2023.
Zoonosis risk of the coronavirus — SARS-CoV-2 on mink farms (pdf)
Food safety risks of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
The Risk Assessment Unit of Finnish Food Authority compiled available information on factors that may affect food safety. The report was originally published in Finnish on 3.4.2020 and translated in September 2023.
Coronavirus and food safety – COVID-19 from a food safety perspective (pdf)