Since the beginning of the pandemic, consumers as well as producers and processors have been concerned about the possibility of food causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). To date, there has been no known transmission of COVID-19 through food, and various factors continue to make this scenario unlikely.
First, it has been determined that contact surfaces play a smaller role in the transmission of the virus than previously thought, and very few clusters or illness have been related to this source of transmission.