Our country will clear up and revise the current food safety standard in an all-round way

Our country will clear up and revise the current food safety standard in an all-round way
The first food security meeting inaugural meeting of persons who examine the judging panel of national standard is held in Beijing on January 20. Chen Zhu, minister of Ministry of Public Health, points out at the meeting, persons who examine the judging panel of national standard of food security will organize one point of committees of every speciality immediately after establishing, launch it to safety standard of dairy products, remaining, clearance and revision of poisonous harmful pollutant, pathogenic microorganism, fungi toxin, food additive standard of agricultural animal remedy.
In recent years, with the fast development of the economics and society of our country, people have put forward higher requirement for the food security. Meanwhile, food trade is fast growing, some food standards can't already meet the need that food trade develops and guarantees the food security. Chen Zhu says, at present, the food safety standard of our country works and faces situations and challenges newly.
First, the food standard room lacks connecting effectively and coordination, practicality is not strong. Our country has food sanitary standard, quality criteria and sector standard, the relative limitation of some standard coverage rate now, the commonability is relatively bad, to the same kind of food, the index of the food security is often dispersed in all kinds of different standards, the problem of repeating, crossing exists in the standard room; The standard indexes with a limit on quantity of some lack and correspond to the related detection method, have standard lacking and blank problems. These questions have already influenced implementation and result of the standard.
Second, the science of the food safety standard demands urgently to improve. The food safety standard should be based on risk assessment, according to the real meal structure of the residents of our country, made investigations and analysed scientifically, could guarantee the science of the food safety standard extensively. Because of our country food security weak in working foundation of risk assessment, food security monitor and total meal investigate data enough, have influenced the science of the food safety standard to a certain extent.
Third, food safety standard system construction demands urgently to strengthen. The standard formulation of food take department as the core more, lack the overall planning and synthesize and coordinate, there are no resultant of forces of food safety standard work of forming; Develop strength weakly in food safety standard, the professional technician's team is obviously insufficient, greater disparity exists with the actual need of the standard formulation work of the food security.
Fourth, the security mechanism of the standard work is imperfect. The national standard job funds of food security are insufficient seriously, influence the standard formulation of the food security and propagate guidance, it is difficult to go on the system to follow and appraise with the correctly standard implementation.
Define the regulation in article 22 of " food safety law ", Ministry of Public Health should be to current edible agricultural product quality safety standards, the standard enforced in food sanitary standard, food quality criteria and sector standard about food is combined, announce as the national standard of the food security in unison. The State Council pay close attention to the intersection of food security and national standard work, issue the documents many times, dispose the national standard work of the food security. In 2008, the State Council will announce " the quality safety of dairy products will supervise the management rule " and " the milk industry rectify and revitalize the planning outline ", demand to clear up the safety standard of dairy products in one year. In February of 2009, General Office of the State Council will print and distribute " the food security rectifies the working scheme ", will demand to use for about 2 years, remain, poisonous harmful pollutant, pathogenic microorganism, fungi toxin, food additive standard to revise agricultural animal remedy completely, and combine the relevant food safety standard in accordance with the law.
It is introduced, according to the unified plan of the State Council, Ministry of Public Health has already taken a series of measure, strengthen the work of food safety standard.
First, clear up and improve the existing food safety standard. At present, basically finish the clearance of the safety standard of dairy products and improve the work. After the inaugural meeting, Ministry of Public Health will organize one point of committees of every speciality immediately, examine over 70 dairy products safety standards. Have also started remaining, clearance and revision of poisonous harmful pollutant, pathogenic microorganism, fungi toxin, food additive standard of agricultural animal remedy. In addition, will unite the related departments, use longer time to current edible agricultural product quality safety standards, the standard enforced in food sanitary standard, food quality criteria and sector standard about food is cleared up in an all-round way, and announce as the national standard of the food security in unison on this basis.
Second, strengthen the work of safety standard basic research of food. In December of 2009, the national food security risk Evaluation Commission is established, should give full play to the function in standard formulation work of risk assessment of the food security. Accelerate setting up the food security risk from central authorities to locality and monitoring the network, cover each link of the food production and management. Meanwhile, launch the risk monitoring of the food security together with the related departments, find the risk hidden danger of the food security in time.
Third, strengthen the safety standard system construction of food, establish the meeting of persons who examine the judging panel of national standard of food security, and try to set up the technological organization of safety standard of food actively and accelerate the construction of professional technique team, strengthen the construction of ability, fully give play to the role of multi-disciplinary expert, form the resultant of forces of the safety standard work of food.
Fourth, improve the food safety standard management system. Ministry of Public Health is making " national standard management of the food security ", " the the intersection of food security and the intersection of national standard and management of checking ", " whether the intersection of food security and the intersection of country and metric system revise the intersection of project and management ". Strive for relevant department's support actively, set up the security mechanism which accords with the working demand of safety standard of food.

|