China News Service, January 31. The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 31st to stimulate the vitality of business entities and promote high-quality economic development. Pu Chun, deputy director of the State Administration for Market Regulation and director of the National Certification and Accreditation Administration, said at the meeting that in 2023, the entire system completed 7.0349 million batches of food safety supervision and sampling inspections, with a failure rate of 2.72%, a decrease of 0.14% from last year.
Pu Chun said that the State Administration for Market Regulation adheres to a problem-oriented approach, prevents and resolves risks, maintains the bottom line of no major food safety problems, and promotes continued stability and improvement of the food safety situation.
The first is to tighten the local food safety management responsibilities and corporate main responsibilities. Guide local governments to establish and improve a hierarchical and hierarchical precise prevention and control end-to-end working mechanism to achieve end-to-end results, and promote the implementation of the "three lists plus a commitment letter" (responsibility list, task list, inspection list and food safety responsibility and task commitment letter) system , to further consolidate local management responsibilities. Promote enterprises to equip food safety officers and food safety directors in accordance with laws and regulations, establish risk management and control lists, and strictly implement the working mechanism of "daily control, weekly inspection, and monthly dispatch" to achieve the goal of truly finding the person, clarifying the matter, and solving the problem after it occurs. Take responsibility.
The second is to establish and improve the food safety standard system. The State Administration for Market Regulation has promoted the revision of the Food Safety Law and its implementation regulations, formulated and promulgated 16 supporting food safety regulations, and issued 87 supplementary food inspection methods and 49 rapid inspection methods, providing strong institutional guarantee and technical support for legal supervision.
The third is to continue to increase food safety supervision. Coordinate pre- and post-event supervision, optimize the special food registration management process, strengthen on-site verification of food production and operation licenses, and strictly control access points; comprehensively implement risk-level supervision, formulate a supporting list of supervision and inspection key points, and increase the frequency of inspections of high-risk foods and enterprises. , guiding local governments to increase random inspections and supervision. In 2023, the entire system completed 7.0349 million batches of food safety supervision and sampling inspections, with a failure rate of 2.72%, a decrease of 0.14% from last year.
Fourth, punish illegal activities with a combination of leniency and severity. On the basis of intensifying the investigation and handling of food safety cases, efforts will be made to solve outstanding problems that are strongly reflected by the masses. In the first three quarters of 2023, there were 334,500 food safety violations nationwide, of which 33,500 were exempted from punishment. The average fine amount per case was 4,900 yuan, showing a downward trend. This not only reflects the effectiveness of food safety supervision, but also Further changes in law enforcement concepts and optimization of law enforcement methods have been recognized by the people.
Pu Chun emphasized that in the next step, the State Administration for Market Regulation will further establish bottom-line thinking, strengthen risk management, pay close attention to the implementation of responsibilities, improve the food safety risk prevention and control system, improve the working mechanism for consultation, major accidents and public opinion emergency response, and effectively ensure "Safety on the tip of the tongue" for the people.