State Department: Food Safety First Included in Local Government Assessment

China proposes phased goals for food safety

Curb food safety violations and crimes within 3 years

According to the "Decision of the State Council on Strengthening Food Safety Work" issued by the Xinhua News Agency, the phased goal of China's food safety is proposed. It is planned to use three years or so to achieve significant results in the food safety control and rectification work in China. Effectively curb the problem and effectively solve the problem.

Reiteration of food safety violations

The "Decision" emphasizes that we must adhere to the code to deal with chaos, and we must always strictly fight the high-pressure situation, so that severe punishment and re-administration become the norm of food safety governance. We must adhere to the word "strictly" for all types of illegal and criminal activities, and we must fight for the first time. We must conscientiously implement the requirements of the "Decision" and further strengthen the connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice. We must promptly transfer the case for suspected crimes to file a case. We must actively cooperate with the judicial authorities to investigate and collect evidence, and prohibit the punishment of overdue release and penalty fines to ensure that Criminal criminal responsibility is in place. We must severely punish food safety violations and crimes, effectively solve the problem of “low-cost illegality”, allow lawbreakers to pay a high price, and fundamentally reverse the momentum of food safety violations and crimes.

Improve food recall system

The decision proposed that in five years or so, the technical support system for China's food safety supervision and management system, food safety laws and regulations and standards system, inspection, inspection and risk monitoring will be more scientifically perfected, and the food safety management level and sense of integrity of producers and operators should be improved. With universal enhancement, the food safety work pattern widely participated by all parties in society has basically taken shape, and the overall level of food safety has been greatly improved.

This decision requires the strengthening of food production and operation supervision, the establishment of a sound food delisting, recall and destruction management system to prevent expired foods and other unqualified foods from flowing back into food production and operation. Food business operators should establish and implement a consumption reminder system that is close to the shelf-life food, and it is forbidden to change the packaging and date before selling again.

Including local government assessment

The decision also proposes to establish a food production and business operator credibility information database and information public service platform, and share it with financial institutions, securities supervision and other departments, promptly announce the credit situation of food production and business operators to the public, and issue black and white illegal enterprises and individuals. List."

In mobilizing the wide participation of the whole society, this decision requires local governments at all levels to speed up the establishment and improvement of a food safety rewards reporting system, and to achieve institutionalization and standardization of food safety prize reporting.

In order to promote the implementation of food safety supervision responsibility, this decision clearly puts food safety into the local government's annual performance appraisal content for the first time, and regards the assessment results as an important part of the comprehensive evaluation of the local leadership team and leading cadres. For places where major food safety accidents occur, one-vote veto is adopted in such activities as civilized cities and sanitary cities.