Administration plan to further strengthen food safety supervision in rural areas

CreateTime:2014-03-01 Count:173

In the recently held national conference on food safety supervision, the State Food and Drug Administration requires all conscientiously implement the spirit of the Central Rural Work Conference, to protect the safety of food consumption in rural areas starting point, to ensure the food safety supervision in rural areas work more prominent place in the annual position, strengthen supervision, and achieve tangible results.

The meeting pointed out that at present, the rural food market is still the weak link of food safety supervision, production and operation of fake, counterfeit famous brands of food, expired food, 'three no' outstanding issues such as food, repeated, repeated playing without a break, attention has become the Party Central Committee , highly sensitive issues of social concern. throughout rural food markets to fully understand the seriousness of the problems, long-term, complex and intractable, so that the general spirit of the people in rural areas to share the results of reform and development, protect the livelihood and achieve urban and rural public services equalization principle, adhere to treating the symptoms persist combining, the focus of the deployment, untiring, concentrating on rural food market rectification, the implementation of comprehensive management, efforts to solve outstanding problems currently exist in rural food markets, and constantly improve rural food security levels, do not let the vast rural areas become fake and shoddy food and sewer discharge field.

Meeting the requirements of food safety supervision and management departments around, to take the following four steps:

First, the investigation should be based on risk, to fully grasp the overall situation of rural food markets and highlight problems. Increase rural market supervision and inspection of food, attaches great importance to the masses reflect the problems, system troubleshooting and highlight potential risks to food safety issues, carding master local rural regional food problem-prone, prone key areas, focusing on format, key sites, key units, as well as key issues, to discover and resolve outstanding issues.

Second, the focus should be based on a good grasp of food safety special rectification actions. Around to combine local food and drug regulatory agency reform, enrich rural food safety supervision of law enforcement personnel, local conditions, to co-ordinate law enforcement forces, the unified deployment of the various aspects of hand, prominent focusing on key areas, key format, key sites, key units, focusing on the problem, focus, focus time, organize special campaigns to crack down on counterfeit production and operation, counterfeiting of well-known brands of food, expired food, 'three noes' of food and other illegal activities , remove a number of illegal production enterprises, to ban a number of 'black factory', 'black dens' focus group for the food wholesale market regulation in rural areas, a number of food punish criminals, further improvement and standardize market order food in rural areas .

Third, based on the long-term, to consolidate food safety special rectification results. Around rectification attention should summarize the lessons learned, according to consolidate the achievements, playing both the requirements to build, improve awareness of the problem, risk awareness, sense of responsibility to tackle tough, persistent carry forward the 'Foolish Old Man' spirit and long, down to earth, in-depth thorough grasp of iron has left a mark, not only the immediate, floating on the surface, hard pop 'like a whole, a stop on the chaos' of the cycle, effectively establishing rural food markets long-term supervision mechanism.

Fourth of governance should be based society, and lay the foundation for food safety supervision in rural areas. Localities to actively play a role in township government and grassroots food and other basic safety coordinators team, extending the regulatory reach, the integrity of the food safety supervision network, to strengthen the rural high risk, the focus of supervision and sampling food and risk monitoring, improve detection and timely issues, problem-solving targeting, to improve security, protection of rural grassroots organizations regulation and law enforcement personnel and material security, strengthen rural grassroots food safety regulatory enforcement capacity building, to increase the prizes to report efforts to promote the smooth flow of complaint channels, guide and encourage the participation of rural consumers concerned about food safety and management, strengthening food safety education, and guide rural consumers consciously resist fake and shoddy food, continued to suppress counterfeiting shoddy food in the living space in rural areas, the majority of farmers to ensure food safety for consumers.

Source: Wantinews

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