Strike out to protect "security at the tip of the tongue"

The General Office of the State Council has recently issued the "2016 Key Work Arrangements for Food Safety" to deploy key national food safety tasks in 2016. The work arrangement starts with the improvement of laws and standards, highlights the strict prevention of origin, strict management of the process, severe violations of laws and regulations, speeds up the improvement of the unified and authoritative supervision system, enhances the ability and level of governance of food safety, and earnestly safeguards the “safety of the tongue” of the masses of the people.

Experts believe that the work arrangement has fully deployed this year's food safety priorities and has strong guidance and operability.

Accelerate the improvement of food safety regulations and systems

Work arrangements require the preparation and revision of a number of key food safety standards and pesticide veterinary drug residue standards.

Food safety standards are an important technical basis for food production, operation, and supervision. Gu Zhenhua, president of the Shanghai Food Safety Working Federation, believes that this year will speed up the publication of the integrated national food safety standards and abolish a batch of duplicate and non-applicable standards. .

Gu Zhenhua believes that according to the needs of the supervision work, it will speed up the preparation and revision of a number of key food safety standards and residues of pesticides and veterinary drugs to meet the needs of food safety supervision work.

The work arrangement proposes to promote the investigation of criminal responsibility for increasing counterfeit food fraud.

Hu Jinguang, a professor at Renmin University of China, said that it is necessary to maintain a high pressure on food safety violations and raise people’s awareness of food safety protection.

Source governance is always the top priority of food safety governance

The work arrangement requires the implementation of a strict management system for the use of agricultural inputs and strives to solve the problem of residues of pesticides and veterinary drugs.

Gu Zhenhua said that source control is one of the effective measures for developed countries to solve food safety, and it is also the food safety working principle established by the newly revised "Food Safety Law."

High-quality and safe agricultural products are the source of all kinds of healthy food, and also the first line of defense to ensure food safety. Luo Yunbo, a professor at the China Agricultural University, said that the quality and safety of agricultural products depend largely on the construction of the ecological environment. Therefore, the governance of the source is always the top priority of food safety governance.

Luo Yunbo said that this year will also increase the supervision and inspection of the quality and safety of overseas source foods, strictly implement the registration of overseas production enterprises for imported foods, and carry out special inspections on key products such as imported edible vegetable oil, aquaculture products, meat, alcohol, etc. Infant formula milk powder quality and safety to conduct a comprehensive inspection.

Focus on comprehensive improvement to highlight key issues

The work arrangement proposes to continue to increase the supervision of key products such as infant formula milk powder, baby food supplements, dairy products, meat products, edible vegetable oils, food additives, etc., and strive to rectify illegal additions and use of food additives that exceed the limits of use. problem. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of imported food quality and safety.

According to the website of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, in the first quarter of 2016, the national entry-exit inspection and quarantine agencies detected a total of 904 batches of unqualified imported foods for quality and safety projects. The unqualified foods involved 22 types of products, and the major unqualified products were cakes, biscuits, beverages and alcoholic drinks. From 57 countries or regions, the major unqualified causes were microbiological contamination, unqualified quality and unqualified labels.

Gu Zhenhua said that at present, the food safety situation in China is still severe. In response to the outstanding problems and hidden dangers that the people are currently reporting, the work arrangement has proposed comprehensive measures to comprehensively rectify and make up for shortcomings. Through special rectification, it will help solve a number of outstanding problems that have long plagued food safety, and further increase people's satisfaction with food safety.