Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province promotes special food safety supervision

In order to effectively prevent and resolve major risks in special food safety and resolutely abide by the bottom line of food safety, since the beginning of this year, the Market Supervision Bureau of Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province has fully implemented the special action of "abiding by inspection and guarantee" of food safety and the special rectification requirements of food safety, focusing on "strong positions" and "guarding the bottom line", comprehensively promoting special food safety supervision, and effectively safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests
of consumers.

The "five advances" of popular science have won the opportunity
to distinguish between fake and fake.
Since the beginning of this year, the bureau has taken the special action of "abiding by inspection and guarantee" of food safety as an opportunity to issue the "Fuzhou City Special Food "Five Advances" Special Science Popularization Activity Plan", and carried out the "Five Advances" science popularization activities for special foods into communities, villages, networks, schools and supermarkets in multiple directions, angles and forms throughout the city, popularizing knowledge related to special foods and improving consumers' ability
to recognize fake and prevent deception 。 For the elderly, the bureau cooperates with the Municipal Health Commission and other departments to carry out popular science publicity, and invites experts and scholars to hold knowledge lectures such as "scientific health care to prevent scams, rational elderly care to enjoy health" to explain and popularize
the basic knowledge of health food.
At the same time, through warning cartoons and other methods, the common scams of selling health food are exposed
.

Testing supports the recognition of "deception" lies
.
In the daily supervision, the bureau gives full play to the role of inspection technology in the administrative supervision of health food, provides strong support for administrative supervision with technical support and reliable inspection basis, and forms a "two-way synergy"
of technical supervision and administrative supervision.
The person in charge of the special food department of the Fuzhou Market Supervision Bureau introduced that the bureau focused on the supervision and sampling
of products claiming weight loss functions, products claiming to enhance immunity and anti-fatigue functions, and other foods claiming health functions.

Continue to clean up and purify the market environment
.
The person in charge of the special food department of the Fuzhou Market Supervision Bureau said that the bureau has established a self-inspection and supervision mechanism for enterprises, and verified the initiative, authenticity and effectiveness of enterprise self-inspection through evaluation to ensure that enterprises truly and effectively implement the main responsibility
.
At the same time, the records of untrustworthiness of health food producers, traders and other directly responsible personnel are to be pushed to relevant departments through the national enterprise credit information publicity system, and joint disciplinary action
is to be implemented.

Strengthening rectification actions is the focus of
the Fuzhou Market Supervision Bureau.
Taking supermarkets, mother and baby stores, and pharmacies in the city as the main objects, taking "four with four without" (licensed, licensed, accountable, special area or counter, no counterfeiting, no expired, no deterioration, no fault complaints) as the standard, focusing on checking whether the business qualifications are legal, whether the business environment meets the standards, whether the business products are qualified, whether the product display is standardized, whether the warning words are posted, whether the evidence and tickets are complete, whether there are violations of laws and regulations, etc.
, there are problems such as operating beyond the permitted scope, irregular setting of special counters in special areas, storage and sales do not meet the requirements, etc.
They were warned on the spot and ordered to rectify
within a time limit.

Cracking down on conference sales is a key task
carried out by the Fuzhou Market Supervision Bureau.
The bureau, together with the Fuzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Radio, the Municipal Commission on Aging and other departments, issued the Notice on Further Strengthening the Marketing Supervision of Health Food Conferences, and carried out special rectification
of "conference sales" behaviors such as violations of laws and regulations of health foods in the city.
At the same time, the bureau conducted special random inspections on products on the market that claimed to have enhanced immunity, assisted in lowering blood lipids, sugar, antioxidants, assisted in improving memory, assisted in lowering blood pressure, and improved sleep, and has so far sampled 139 batches of special foods, and the inspection results are all qualified
.

(Li Guohua, Zhu Hai)

China Food News (October 12, 2022, Version 06)

(Editor: Zhu Meiqiao)