Qualitative Risk Assessment on the Development of COVID-19 Illness from the Consumption of Bivalve Molluscs

摘要

Covid-19 is primarily a respiratory illness, but the virus causing the illness may also be present in the faeces ofinfected people and therefore wastewater. Bivalve molluscs are marine organisms captured or cultivated for foodpurposes; whose natural feeding behaviour create particular risks of accumulation of human faecal viruses presentthe aquatic environment. This qualitative risk assessment carried out by the FSAI addressed the question: what isthe magnitude of the risk if any, of contracting COVID-19 through consumption of bivalve molluscs produced inIreland?