"Shanzhai" food repeatedly hit "foreign food" security incidents increased.

The original title: "shanzhai" food repeatedly hit "foreign food" security incidents increased
"Economic Reference Daily" reporter recently learned that with food safety into a new stage of comprehensive governance, China's food safety problems overall improved, about 70% of the public in China's food safety status quo is cautiously optimistic. However, with the rapid increase of imported food, network food and new formula new technology continue to upgrade, the current stage of food illegal addition and other risks significantly increased, prevention and control is more difficult, fake sales repeatedly. In the face of the new situation, many places are also actively innovating food regulatory methods, building new "smart" regulatory mechanisms based on big data and the Internet.
Food safety overall situation significantly improved
reporters recently visited Beijing, Tianjin, Anhui, Guangdong and many other places to understand that in recent years, with the implementation of the four "most stringent" regulatory system, the overall situation of food safety has significantly improved, the country did not occur regional, systematic major food safety incidents.
Speaking about food safety in front of a restaurant on the third floor of Beijing's Daxing West Red Gate, Ms. Zhang, 32, said: "The first two years did have a very tense time, now on the one hand feel more strict, on the other hand, they also pay more attention, not as worried as before." Ms. Deng, a resident of Nancao District of Tianjin, said that there are now many regulations and measures in place, and if purchased through formal channels, food safety is still relatively guaranteed.
2016, 257,000 batches of food samples were sampled nationwide, with an overall sampling pass rate of 96.8%, the same as in 2015 and 2.1 percentage points higher than in 2014, according to the State Administration of Food and Drug Administration. Food processing products, cooking oil, oil and its products, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits and other edible agricultural products, as well as dairy products and other bulk daily consumer goods, sampling pass rate of about 98%. Some varieties and indicators of high social concern, such as melamine in dairy products and infant formula, aflatoxin B1 in wheat flour, Sudanese red in egg products, etc., all qualified for three-year sampling samples.
with the introduction of policy density, governance penalties and the degree of information disclosure, people's awareness of food safety is improving, the social effect of comprehensive governance is gradually reflected. China Food Science and Technology Association for several years to track and analyze food safety hot spots, big data analysis found that food safety hot spots from 81.5 percent in 2015 to 56.7 percent in 2016, a decline of 24.8 percent. About 70% of the public are cautiously optimistic about the current situation of food safety in China, according to the National Food Safety Cognitive Literacy Big Data Research Report released by the China Statistical Information Service Center.
Agricultural and veterinary drug residues and other difficult issues repeatedly
Although the treatment has been effective, but in the case of the sampling pass rate increased, the absolute number of non-conforming products detected is still large, the chemical risk of food safety is very prominent, counterfeit, "shanzhai" food repeatedly hit, coupled with imported food, network food and new formula new technology rapidly increased, the current food safety situation is still serious and complex.
- agricultural and veterinary drug residues exceed the standard prone to multiple. Yuan Fuhan, head of the food distribution supervision section of the Guangzhou Tsuen Wan District Food and Drug Administration, said thin-skined fish such as laurel fish and Dobao fish are prone to injury, while peacock stone green can make the fish's injured surface look fresher. This problem has been a "big problem" for the past few years.
- the problem of illegal additions and indiscriminate additions is still prominent. In the 2016 sampling, the over-range, over-limited use of food additives in non-conforming samples accounted for more than 1/3.
- fake and shoddy, "shanzhai" food is endless. Some "shanzhai" food, "three no" food is still in urban and rural areas, rural areas. Reporters saw in the course of the interview, a "Jiangyuan" brand juice, in the outer packaging modeled on the well-known beverage brand "Huiyuan" juice, drinking a clear strange taste; Chinese a survey by the School of Agriculture and Rural Development of the University of Rural China, rural primary school students regularly eat snacks, most of which are not produced in large food enterprises.
Seed market dynamics bring new regulatory challenges
With the change of food consumption market demand and service model, people have more and more access to food channels and methods, more diversified food types, businesses, enterprises are also updating production technology, food safety supervision brings many challenges.
years, online food more and more popular, the food industry e-commerce showed a strong trend. From the major e-commerce website food sales data soaring, to low-cost fruit popular WeChat group, e-commerce food trading scale is expanding at the same time, the potential risk of network food safety is also increasing. And with takeaway orders increasingly popular, online "tall up", dirty underline catering small workshops gradually surfaced. China Consumer Association released an exper experience survey report shows that online takeaway orders there are foreign objects and other non-compliance with health and safety requirements, platform registration merchants offline undocumented operation and many other problems.
of "foreign food" has also led to an increase in "foreign-related" food safety incidents. Imported food has become an important food source for Chinese consumers. According to the State Administration of Quality Supervision and Inspection, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the volume of imported food trade increased by 22.6%, with an average annual growth rate of 5.2%. During this period, China detected a total of 12828 batches of non-conforming food, 68,000 tons, worth 150 million U.S. dollars, a significant increase over the past. Zhang Xiang, an associate professor in the School of Public Administration of Fujian Normal University, said that the number of imported food products in China has increased significantly over the past few years, the source of imports is complex, objectively leading to a continuous increase in food safety incidents, "foreign food" safety and quality conditions caused high concern to domestic consumers.
new technologies, new processes and new formulations bring difficulties to the supervision of food safety at the grass-roots level. Anhui Province food and drug supervision department staff said, to "geo-oil" as an example, some processors through technology, process improvement, can make "geo-oil" escape the detection of conventional means, in various indicators and safety compliance with edible oil can not see the difference. Moreover, new varieties and formulations in the food market, coupled with the deepening of scientific research, previously considered harmless to the human body of some additives, can now also provoke consumers and public opinion sensitive "nerves", food safety supervision work to bring pressure and challenges.
The whole process" governance still has a short board
reporter research found that the public is highly concerned about food and drug safety issues, unusually sensitive, low ignition point, many contacts, but the source of governance, circulation link governance still exists short board, new potential risk factors increased.
- the source risk increases, the process risk increases, the "whole process" governance still has a short board.
" food and drug regulatory departments to control access, but who will be allowed out of the customs? "The first-line staff at the food and drug regulatory level talked about the confusion. Yuan Fuhan, head of the food distribution supervision section of the Guangzhou Tsuen Wan District Food and Drug Administration, said Peacock Green can make fish's injured surfaces look fresher. But this kind of improved illegal addition, whether it is the breeding link or the transport link out of the problem, often difficult to clarify.
research has found that the pollution problem of food safety source deserves attention. Since 2006, the Guangzhou Institute of Geo-Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been studying the problem of antibiotic pollution, with footprints in 58 major rivers in China, as well as major farms in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hebei and other provinces. The study found that most of the 162,000 tons of antibiotics used in China in 2013 were excreted from humans and animals, and more than 50,000 tons were released into the soil and water environment each year. The Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Yangtze River Delta regions are densely populated by various types of aquaculture, which is the worst affected area of antibiotic pollution.
- institutional reform, management risk increases. In the past two years, some places in the implementation of "all-in-one" market supervision and comprehensive law enforcement process, weakened the food and drug supervision work, "affecting the effectiveness of the implementation of the law."
The grass-roots staff from Anhui reflected that, because the reform of the pre-quality supervision and food and drug supervision in the county below the grass-roots level there is no regulatory body, so the "three-in-one" after the grass-roots market supervision and management is essentially the former industrial and commercial exchanges for a brand, personnel did not increase, but the scope of management and work tasks have greatly increased, such as increased food production and catering supervision, special equipment supervision, drug and medical equipment supervision, and so on, and the grass-roots industrial and commercial personnel generally lack of professional knowledge, difficult to supervise.
Food safety supervision mechanism to be straightened out
experts recommend to enrich the grass-roots level, ensure the stability of grass-roots law enforcement forces, strengthen food safety assessment, accountability should be standardized and transparent in accordance with the law, and promote the formation of joint prevention and control mechanism.
- to promote the formation of corporate responsibility, the whole process of supervision, social governance environment t three-in-one situation. Wang Neutral, deputy director of the Food Market Safety Supervision Department of the Guangzhou Food and Drug Administration, suggested the establishment of a "whole process food safety supervision system" "from the source of cultivation and breeding to production, processing and circulation consumption". "Including the origin of heavy metal pollution, breeding water pollution, persistent organic pollution and other environmental problems, fertilizer overuse, antibiotic abuse, agricultural and veterinary drug residues exceed the standard, these problems need to be solved by the national chess ideas."
, the Food and Drug Administration, was established separately. Guo Yuhua, director of the Office of the Guangdong Food and Drug Administration, believes that food safety supervision is not a simple market supervision issue, but a public safety issue, political security issues, related to people's hearts. Food safety should focus on the whole process of the food chain from "farm to table", pay attention to all factors that may have an impact on food safety, and prevent problems before they are possible.
, head of the food production department of the Food and Drug Administration of Anhui Province, said developed countries such as the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom have set up market regulation and food and drug regulatory authorities separately. It is suggested that in the next round of reform, the current regulatory functions should be systematically combed, in the end which regulatory functions belong to the general market order, which are directly related to public health and safety, and strive for a one-time adjustment in place, so as not to toss in the future. In addition, in order to prevent the city, county, grass-roots between the push and pull, it is recommended to clarify the rights at all levels as soon as possible.
- to enrich the grass-roots level, to ensure the stability of grass-roots law enforcement forces. Grass-roots staff suggested that the first is to enrich the grass-roots supervision and enforcement force as soon as possible, after all, the vast majority of work should be implemented at the grass-roots level;
- strengthen food safety assessment, accountability to regulate transparency in accordance with the law. The difficulties in food safety supervision, such as financial security and innovation of supervision mechanism, will be incorporated into the appraisal system, the responsibilities of all parties will be clarified, and governments at all levels and regulatory departments will be urged to focus on the difficulties of supervision. Zhong Yan suggested that accountability should be the responsibility to pursue causation, that is, "fault recovery", while the process of accountability should be in accordance with the law, norms, transparency, but also to ensure that the person responsible has a smooth channel of complaints, relief. (Reporting by Xiao Si, Bao Xiaoxuan and Yu Yongguan)