The General Office of the State Council issued a notice on the key work arrangements for food safety in 2017.

Notice issued by the General Office of the State Council on the issuance of the
2017
Food Safety Key Work Arrangements
The State Office issued No. 28 of 2017
people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, ministries and agencies under the State Council:
The Food Safety Key Work Arrangements 2017 have been agreed by the State Council and are now issued to you, please earnestly implement them.
General Office of the State Council
April
, 2017 (this public release)
2017
food safety key work arrangements
food safety related to the health and safety of the masses, strengthening food safety work is a major political task of Party committees and governments at all levels. In 2016, the overall food safety situation in the country was stable and good, but the problem is still complex and serious. In order to carry out the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on food safety work, implement the "four most stringent" requirements, strengthen the strict prevention of sources, strict process control, strict risk control and supervision measures, speed up the resolution of outstanding problems of general concern to the people, improve the ability and level of food safety governance, promote supply-side structural reform and overall well-off social construction, the following arrangements are made for food safety priorities in 2017:
1, strengthen the construction of the rule of law on food safety
(Led by the Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs, the High Court, the High Inspection Court, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the General Administration of Customs, the General Administration of Quality Inspection, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration) to speed up the improvement of the relevant legal system of food safety, and urgently revise the implementation regulations of the Food Safety Law, basically complete the revision of the supporting regulations of the Food Safety Law, and implement the punishment to the people. To promote local food production and operation of small workshops, small vendors, small catering management measures in the year all introduced. We will initiate the revision of the Law on Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products and implement the newly revised regulations on pesticide management. Research and develop regulations on kitchen waste collection and resource treatment. (The General Administration of Food and Drug Administration, the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Legal Affairs Office of the State Council shall be responsible for the division of duties) revised and issued the regulations on food safety management for centralized dining in school canteens and out-of-shopping students. (The Ministry of Education, the State Health and Family Planning Commission, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration in cooperation) to develop food-related product supervision measures, and urgently revise the import and export food safety management measures. (The General Administration of Quality Inspection, the State Health and Family Planning Commission, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration in cooperation) to strengthen food safety education, food safety supervision personnel at all levels, all kinds of food production and operation units, the main practitioners receive not less than 40 hours of centralized food safety training throughout the year. We will improve the administrative law enforcement procedures for food safety and strengthen the guidance on the application of administrative penalty laws. Standardize law enforcement behavior, strengthen law enforcement supervision, carry out law enforcement inspection, and do a good job in administrative review and response. (The relevant departments of the State Council and the people's governments at
shall be responsible for improving food safety
and promoting the interface between food safety standards and international standards. We will continue to improve the food safety standards system and revise a number of national standards and testing methods for food safety, such as heavy metal pollution, organic pollutants, infant formula, special medical products, health food, etc., which are urgently needed. Strengthen the promotion, training and follow-up evaluation of standards, strengthen the convergence of standard-setting, implementation and supervision. Strengthen the revision and management of local food safety standards, guide local clean-up standards, and establish a directory of local standards. (The State Health and Family Planning Commission, led by the Ministry of Agriculture, the General Administration of Quality Inspection, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration, the State Food Administration) to strengthen the study of illegal additions to food testing methods. (The Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Health and Family Planning Commission, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration according to the division of responsibilities) to speed up the formulation of vegetables and specialty agricultural products pesticide residues and small varieties of animal and poultry aquatic products veterinary drug residue limit standards, the new formulation of pesticide residue standards 1000, veterinary drug residue standards 100, a comprehensive clean-up integration and revision of pesticide veterinary drug residue detection methods. Promulgate standards for the limits of pesticide veterinary drug residues for imported agricultural products, and initiate the classification and formulation of "all" limit standards. (Led by the Ministry of Agriculture, with the cooperation of the General Administration of Quality Inspection) to improve the food quality and safety standards system. (The State Food Administration, with the cooperation of the General Administration of Quality Inspection
Third, purifying the agricultural production environment
to initiate a detailed survey of soil pollution status, promote the revision of soil pollution prevention legislation and soil environmental quality standards, implement the action plan for the prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution, and carry out pilot projects on the construction of advanced areas for comprehensive soil pollution prevention and control and the application of soil pollution control and restoration techniques. Before the end of the year, the introduction of agricultural land soil environmental management measures, the release of agricultural land soil environmental quality standards. (The Ministry of Environmental Protection is responsible for) strictly control the construction of new non-ferrous metal smelting, petroleum processing, chemical, coking, electroplating, tanning and other industries in priority protection areas, the existing relevant industry enterprises should adopt new technologies, new processes, speed up the pace of upgrading and upgrading. (The Ministry of Environmental Protection, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) carried out in-depth actions to protect and upgrade the quality of cultivated land, and promote the prevention and control of pollution from agricultural sources. Summarize the pilot experience of Changzhutan, speed up the rehabilitation and planting structure of heavy metal-contaminated cultivated land, guide the safe use of moderately polluted cultivated land and the demarcation of prohibited production areas for edible agricultural products of heavily polluted cultivated land. (The Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for) implementing the measures of the State Council on strengthening the control of heavy metal pollution in grain, and handling the relationship between adjusting the planting structure and protecting the interests of farmers. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Food Administration and other departments will be responsible with the relevant provincial people's governments
Fourth, strengthen the source management of the breeding links
to implement good agricultural norms, in the large-scale production and operation of the main body to implement the production record account system. Strengthen the management of the safety interval and the rest period of pesticide veterinary drugs. Implementation of highly toxic pesticide fixed-point operation, real-name purchase system, prohibit the use of highly toxic pesticides for vegetables, fruits, tea, Chinese herbal medicine and other crops production, in phases to take restrictions on highly toxic pesticides. Implementation of veterinary prescription drug management and veterinary drug QR code traceability system. We will increase training in scientific breeding techniques, guide farmers in the scientific and rational use of pesticides, veterinary drugs, fertilizers, feed and feed additives in accordance with the law, and strictly prohibit the use of "clenum meat essence", peacock stone green, nitrofuran and other prohibited substances. (The Ministry of Agriculture led, the General Administration of Quality Inspection in cooperation) to promote pests and diseases, animal disease control and control professional services, support the cultivation of operational service organizations. (The Ministry of Agriculture led, the General Administration of Quality Inspection, the Ministry of Finance in cooperation) to promote the management of edible agricultural products certification pilot. In-depth promotion of livestock, poultry, water product quality and safety special rectification, focusing on the treatment of pesticide veterinary drug residues outstanding problems. (The Ministry of Agriculture led, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration in cooperation
five, strict supervision of the production and operation process
to promote the risk classification system landing, on the basis of risk classification to strengthen daily supervision and inspection, the implementation of the "double random, one open" principle, through thorough investigation of hidden dangers, sampling "bright items", punishment to people, public information, exposure of all illegal enterprises, forcing production operators to implement the main responsibility. Adhere to the problem orientation, increase the intensity of special inspection and flight inspection, carry out inspection form, sampling system, responsibility grid, the implementation of daily inspection and supervision of sampling two responsibilities. The production enterprises of infant formula milk powder carry out the inspection of the food safety production standard system. Comprehensive hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) systems in large food and food-related product manufacturers to encourage certification. To promote enterprises to establish a food safety traceability system. To carry out assured dishes, rest assured meat supermarket creation activities, urge the wholesale market of edible agricultural products, network third-party platform providers to implement food safety management responsibilities. Encourage conditional places to implement centralized and standardized management of small vendors and small meals. Strengthen the supervision of food-related products production enterprises, standardize labeling. We will strictly implement the registration of overseas production enterprises for imported food products and strengthen the supervision of registered enterprises after the fact. (General Administration of Quality Inspection, General Administration of Food and Drug Administration according to the division of responsibilities) to strengthen the "rest assured grain and oil" supply network quality and safety supervision. (The State Food Administration is responsible for) in-depth rural food safety management, focusing on the investigation and control of rural and urban-rural areas to highlight food safety risks, targeted to strengthen the construction of long-term mechanisms. (The Ministry of Agriculture, the General Administration of Industry and Commerce, and the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration shall be responsible according to the division of responsibilities) to strengthen food safety supervision on campuses and surrounding areas, implement the responsibility for food safety management in school canteens, and strictly prevent mass food poisoning incidents. (The Ministry of Education, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration shall be responsible according to the division of responsibilities) to implement the measures for the management of food safety in railway operations, promote the qualification management of fast food suppliers on trains, and do a good job in the spring and summer railway food safety work. (China Railway Corporation is responsible for) the implementation of food safety promotion projects in the catering industry, vigorously advocate the catering service units "bright kitchen stove", the implementation of the inspection of infested goods, raw materials control, environmental health and other systems, the implementation of food and beverage units quality and safety management of the main responsibility. Strengthen the supervision of online ordering, timely investigation and punishment of illegal business practices of online ordering. (The General Administration of Food and Drug Administration is responsible for
Sixth, strictly prevent and control food safety risks
organizations to implement the national food safety risk monitoring plan, increase risk monitoring and assessment efforts. Promote inter-departmental and inter-regional risk monitoring, assessment and supervision of sampling information sharing, make good use of the Internet, big data, strengthen risk monitoring results to inform participants of research and judgment, for risk prevention and control to provide technical support. (The State Health and Family Planning Commission, led by the Ministry of Agriculture, the General Administration of Quality Inspection, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration, the State Food Administration) to carry out the quality and safety risks of agricultural products to carry out bottom-up checks, strengthen risk monitoring, assessment and supervision of sampling, according to law to publish sampling information. (The Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for) to strengthen supervision of key products, key issues sampling and risk monitoring. (The General Administration of Food and Drug Administration and the State Health and Family Planning Commission shall be responsible according to the division of responsibilities) in accordance with the principle of the lower management level, the overall planning of national, provincial, municipal and county-level sampling, expand the coverage of spot checks, improve the detection rate of problems and the rate of verification and disposal of non-conforming products. Standardize the evaluation of food rapid detection methods. Establish a risk early warning exchange system, timely release of food safety sampling information, risk warning or consumption tips. Explore the risk exchange of large-scale food enterprises, improve the system of direct reporting of important information and direct reporting network, strengthen the monitoring and early warning of public opinion on food safety, and formulate emergency plans for national food safety emergencies. (The General Administration of Food and Drug Administration is responsible for) the implementation of imported food safety assured project, strengthen the high-risk, high-level attention to imported food supervision. Implementation of imported food importers and exporters for the record management system. We will further strengthen food safety supervision at border crossings, strengthen safety supervision of imported and exported edible agricultural products and feed, and carry out risk monitoring. (The General Administration of Quality Inspection is responsible for) to promote food safety liability insurance, to encourage food production and operation enterprises to insure food safety liability insurance. (Led by the Food Safety Office of the State Council, CIRC in cooperation with
Seven, promote the transformation and upgrading of the food industry
in-depth implementation of agricultural standardization strategy, highlighting high-quality, safe and green orientation, strict pollution-free agricultural products, green food, organic agricultural products and agricultural geographical indications ("three products and one standard") certification, as well as good agricultural norms certification, around market demand to adjust the structure of agricultural products breeding. (The Ministry of Agriculture and the General Administration of Quality Supervision and Inspection shall be responsible for the division of responsibilities) to issue guidance to promote the healthy development of the food industry, and to promote the restructuring and transformation and upgrading of the food industry. Build food processing industry clusters, guide food processing enterprises to the main production areas, advantageous production areas, industrial parks concentrated, increase technical transformation support efforts to promote the food industry to increase varieties, improve quality, create brands. (National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology according to the division of responsibilities) to speed up the revision of the dairy industry policy, further strict industry access, promote the merger and reorganization of infant formula milk powder enterprises, the implementation of infant formula milk powder traceability system industry standards. (Led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration) to promote the "production base, central kitchen, catering stores", "production base, processing enterprises, business super-sales" and other production and marketing models. (The Ministry of Agriculture, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration, and the provincial people's governments shall be responsible according to the division of responsibilities) to strengthen the resource utilization and harmless treatment of kitchen waste, meat processing waste and unqualified livestock and poultry products, and strictly prevent the flow of "geo-oil" to the table. (National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Construction, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology according to the division of responsibilities) research and development to speed up the development of cold chain logistics to ensure food safety to promote consumption upgrading, improve the food cold chain logistics standards system, encourage social forces and market participants to strengthen food cold chain logistics infrastructure construction. (The National Development and Reform Commission, led by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Health and Family Planning Commission, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration and other departments to cooperate) to promote the export of food enterprises inside and outside the sale of "the same line of homogeneity" project. (The General Administration of Quality Inspection led)
8, crack down on food safety illegal crimes
to maintain a high-pressure deterrent situation, increase the frequency of supervision and inspection, severely punish food safety illegal and criminal acts. Heavy-handed rectification of illegal addition, over-range over-limit use of additives, abuse of pesticide veterinary drugs and other agricultural inputs, counterfeit sales, private slaughter and other illegal acts. All food safety violations should be investigated and the information of the punished persons made public to the public. Establish and improve the information release system for major crimes, control product risks and social risks, and protect the public's right to know. (The General Administration of Food and Drug Administration, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Public Security and the Food Safety Office of the State Council shall be responsible for the division of responsibilities) to strengthen the interface between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice. We will improve the mechanism for the transfer and information of suspected criminal cases, and solve the problems of difficulty in collecting evidence in cases of food safety crimes, difficulty in obtaining evidence, difficulty in transferring cases, difficulty in entering the crime, as well as the cost of inspection and identification, the issuance of inspection conclusions, and the disposal of products involved in the case. (The Central Committee of Political and Legal Affairs, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration led by the Ministry of Agriculture, the General Administration of Quality Inspection, the Ministry of Public Security, the High Inspection Court) to increase the investigation and punishment of false illegal food advertising. (The General Administration of Industry and Commerce is responsible for) to further strengthen the law enforcement of food-related products to combat fraud. (The General Administration of Quality Inspection is responsible for) stepping up efforts to crack down on the smuggling of key sensitive foods.
9. Establish a unified and authoritative food safety supervision system
improve the food and drug safety supervision system, strengthen unity, professionalism and authority, and enrich the grass-roots regulatory force. Where comprehensive law enforcement is implemented, food and drug safety supervision should be the primary responsibility. (The Food Safety Office of the State Council, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration, the central organization and cooperation) rely on existing resources, accelerate the construction of professional food and drug inspectors, set up the corresponding professional and technical posts, technical positions, carry out professional skills training, reasonable determination of pay and treatment, with professionalism to ensure authority. (The General Administration of Food and Drug Administration, led by the Central Administration, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance in cooperation
10, strengthen the food safety foundation and capacity-building
enhance the unity and professionalism of food safety supervision, and effectively improve the level and capacity of food safety supervision. Implementation of the "13th Five-Year Plan" national food safety plan, the implementation of the plan into the provincial people's government assessment content. Establish a year of planning implementation.