State Department: Food Additives safety standards introduced this year

Li Keqiang, television and telephone conference speech. Xinhua News Agency issued

to the “Food Safety Law” as the criterion, draconian chaos, increase punishment, low-cost effectively change the law so as to enable criminals to pay a high price, the real play deterrent.

prominent food safety events, no matter in which region, involving the department, to be accountable. – Video: Li Keqiang stressed firmly crack down on illegal food add behavior Source: CCTV “News Network” Li

electricity, according to Xinhua News Agency yesterday, the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Standing Committee, Vice Premier, State Council, Li Keqiang attended the Food Safety Commission to add the country to crack down on illegal working and abuse of food additives, special teleconference meeting. He stressed the need to effectively resolve the outstanding issues affecting food safety.

Li Keqiang said that the food problem is no small matter to ensure safety is a major event. This is directly related to people’s health and safety, overall economic and social development. And investigate some of the recent food safety significant events, with food production and management of the abuse or illegal use of additives, the masses have a high degree of attention. Food regulation should add as illegal an important entry point for food safety, tracking the source, to strengthen the whole process of management.

Li Keqiang stressed the dangers of large food illegally added, if a problem occurs, the social impact a wide range of easy to cause a chain reaction, we must attach great importance. To the “Food Safety Law” as the criterion, draconian chaos, increase punishment, low-cost effectively change the law so as to enable criminals to pay a high price, really serve as a deterrent. Once the illegal add to quick check fast at the first time seized the products in question, ordered to cease and give severe economic penalties. Of intentionally added, shall be revoked license, confiscation of equipment, the responsible person shall not engage in the relevant food industry.

■ release

GSFA introduced during the year

waste oil, clenbuterol, stained bread, beef extract … … recent food safety issues frequently, causing great concern. Yesterday, the State Council issued “to crack down on illegal food additives added to enhance food supervision effectively act notice” (the notice), including the crackdown of illegal acts, including threatening to add a variety of food safety violations, and asked the Ministry of Health develop national standards for new food additives.

>> sales

store illegal additives to suppress black dens

notification requirements, business sector to supervise the food additives sellers establish and strictly enforce purchase inspection, sales ledger system, and severely punished illegal and unlicensed operation and sale of counterfeit and shoddy food additive behavior.

addition, the notice required close monitoring, and resolutely crack down on sales of food through the Internet and other means of illegal additives act. Rural, urban high, occupies the county and other key areas, companies leased the factory, workshop, warehouse and urban temporary buildings, rental houses and other key positions, should be organized regularly throughout the investigation, to discover and completely wipe out illegal manufacture of illegal storage additives “black dens” resolutely smash underground distribution channels.

>> use

Strict Management of Hot Pot so the use of additives unit

in the fight against add behavior, while illegal, notice requirements to strengthen food additive regulation.

notice requirements the Ministry of Health, Food and Drug Administration as soon as possible to develop food service areas of food additives, explicitly allows the use of food additives, food service unit standard to guide use of food additives, not false propaganda to deceive the consumer person.

In addition, the Food and Drug Administration should focus on strengthening the provision of hot pot, homemade drinks, homemade sauces and other food service units the use of food additive regulation.

>> monitoring

set up special funds to reward whistle-blowers

view of public opinion is the regulatory the necessary means to inform the further request for strengthening social supervision. Made it clear that local governments should establish and improve food safety reporting system prizes, set up a special reward funds, improve the working mechanism, designated a special department responsible for the effective implementation of the informer’s reward, to protect the legitimate interests of informants, to encourage production and business units internal staff report.

same time, the notice should be made to the actual development of food safety with local information officer, to defend members of management practices to enhance food safety information officer, to defend the civil construction.

for public opinion play an important role in the media, notice that the active support of the news media, public opinion, media carefully trace the problems, timely response to community concerns, food safety, public investigation of the case. Meanwhile, to combat false news, false alarm causing social newsmakers, must be severely punished.

accordance with the notification requirements of unified local governments above the county level responsible for leading the administrative area to add and abuse of illegal food additives work, as the focus of food safety, responsible people to personally take charge of the leadership to be directly responsible. In addition, accountability and supervision departments to increase efforts for dereliction of duty, misconduct should be held accountable according to discipline.

>> Standard

standards for food additives will be introduced

the introduction of the food additive standards a schedule. Notice required the Ministry of Health to develop national standards for new food additives, before the end of 2011 to develop and publish the compound food additives, food additives, safety standards and common identification standard.

No national standards for food additives, the business or industry organizations in accordance with relevant provisions of the relevant reference to international organizations or national standards specified product criteria, the Ministry of Health together with relevant departments to speed up the standards for food additives specified . Ministry of Health, AQSIQ will formulate relevant measures as soon as possible, make the standard before the completion of the production of specified licensing and regulatory convergence work.

>> discipline

years to establish food safety business credit files

in food safety the monitoring process, the food industry plays a vital role. Notice requirements to strengthen corporate integrity and self-discipline, and made, before the end of 2011, according to the regulatory system for all food producers and traders to establish credit files of food safety.

the same time, food and food additives and other industry organizations should take the responsibility of industry self-regulation, and actively organizing enterprises to carry out self-correction and internal oversight, supervision and training to strengthen the industry, the timely detection of problems in the industry, failed to discover and report to the criticism. Sun dry the reporter

■ Interpretation

strictly the use of additives in food industry

According to the China Agricultural University, Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, Professor Zhu Yifu introduction, food additives used in the real situation at present the main problem is the illegal additives as food additives, excessive and beyond the scope of use of food additives. She said the State Council issued a document on food additives, and its focus in three areas.

First, more stringent food additives used in the food service part of the requirement, which previously catering additive specification is missing. Particularly large number of recent media reports of a drop of fragrant and is a prominent example of beef extract, in fact, the size of China’s current production of thousands of spices, but only 40 kinds of national standards, regulatory standards led to the lack of existence of blind spots, this document also efforts to solve this problem.

second issue concerns the label marked on the market a wide variety of food additives, mostly clear in the packaging shows the amount bid, but its chemical composition is rarely full list, which involves the knowledge protection of property rights may be relevant not noticed.

third, promised before the end of 2011 to develop and publish general purpose food additive compound safety standards. The so-called compound food additives, food additives is based on certain types of processing preparation of a compound, added to food, to people on food quality, taste, or processed foods to improve the requirements. And this session, to be more concerned about the additive compound after the security, stability, and work out a reasonable standard of hygiene, food safety to avoid accidents.

our reporter Wang Weiwei

■ respond

Ministry of Health denied that food safety standards than foreign loose

Recently, some media reports, “China’s food safety standards differentiated than the foreign standard loose.” Yesterday, the Ministry of Health announced that the international food standards on national differences do exist, our standards consistent with international standards, in addition, to encourage enterprises to international competition need to be developed according to strict national standards of corporate standards.

data show that China’s food exports for many years remained at the pass rates of 99.8%, domestic sales of food for more than 90% pass rate, although the gap is only nine points, but exposed food safety standards “differentiated “embarrassment.

Ministry of Health said the country according to food safety risk assessment, food consumption and food production and management structure of the different actual circumstances of the specific food safety standards, differences in objective standards and has its scientific basis , China’s enterprises based on market competition or to help establish a corporate image needs, you can develop stricter than national standards of corporate standards and management systems, state encourages enterprises to action in this area. Between different countries, national standards and business differences between the standards are objective, and will be a long time.

Previously, Chinese Center for Disease Control informed that Nestlé infant food supplement in the arsenic, lead and heavy metals did not exceed the Chinese standard. “China’s food safety standards than foreign standards Song” has been the confusion of consumers about food safety one.

this regard, the Ministry of Health said that joining the WTO, China’s food safety standards, working with the international standards step by step to limit contaminants in food standards, for example, our standards and Codex Alimentarius standards and indicators for the value of the project line rate of over 70%. Noteworthy is the comparison of different national standards, should be comprehensive, objective, not only the individual standards or individual metrics. For example, in foreign countries allow the use of ractopamine, benzoyl peroxide and other substances, are prohibited species in China. Generally speaking, China is in accordance with the “Food Safety Law”, gradually form a clear sound system of uniform food safety standards, in line with or close to international Codex standards.

our reporter Wang Weiwei

■ connection Beijing

Guo: work with the food to measure the level of government

yesterday afternoon, the city held against the abuse of food and food additives illegal to add a special working meeting.

Guo pointed out that the various departments and districts must take to strengthen food safety as an important task of improving people’s livelihood, as a measure of an important indicator of the level of government. Guo Jinlong demand that a campaign against the abuse of food and food additives illegal to add a special work as a starting point and driving force, insist on full control of scientific testing, to strengthen the comprehensive management of urban and rural interface areas, and increase administrative accountability efforts.

food additives for the supervision of the city, Director of Beijing Municipal Industry and Commerce Bureau of Food Ji Wei, currently Beijing in the business sector, mainly from the sampling control the abuse of food additives. Beijing Industry and Commerce will be regular and irregular sampling of various foods and found that the business does not require the use of additives, will require businesses that failed food shelves, and communicated to the quality supervision departments. Reporter’s inquiry found that the Beijing Municipal Bureau weekly list of food shelves, sodium cyclamate, tartrazine, sunset yellow, carmine, sodium saccharin, etc. were detected too.

the reporter Yuan Guoli Sun dry

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