(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) How to prevent the farmer's market from becoming a "hidden corner" of the outbreak?
China News Service, Beijing, July 3 Question: How to prevent the farmers' market from becoming a "hidden corner" of the outbreak?
China News Agency reporter Li Yanan
Because the previous epidemic in Wuhan and the recent epidemic in Beijing have been closely linked to the farmers' market, is there any guarantee for food safety in the farmers' market? How to prevent the farmers' market from becoming the "hidden corner" of the outbreak again? Chinese officials responded to external concerns on the 3rd.
What is the level of China's agricultural product market?
"The Chinese agricultural product market has gradually developed with the reform and opening up. There are 44,000 agricultural product markets in the country." Hu Jianping, deputy director of the Market Construction Department of the Ministry of Commerce of China, pointed out at the press conference of the Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism of the State Council on the 3rd that the wholesale market in 2019 The transaction volume reached 5.7 trillion yuan, attracting nearly 7 million employees. At present, about 70% of agricultural products are distributed through the wholesale market, and the agricultural product market is still the main channel for the circulation of agricultural products.
In response to the problems of virus and bacteria breeding, high biological pollution and high risk of epidemic prevention in closed markets, Hu Jianping admitted that in some big cities, due to high rents and other factors, some markets have put aquatic products, meat and other fresh agricultural products underground. If the ventilation and cleaning are not in place, it will bring some hidden dangers of health and epidemic prevention. The next step will be to do a good job in eliminating and preventing epidemic diseases, and at the same time guide the market to adjust the functional divisions, transfer fresh agricultural products to the ground to create a safer and more comfortable consumption environment.
Hu Jianping bluntly stated that for a long time, the agricultural product market has been in the "who invests, manages, operates, and benefits" mode, and there are still problems such as unreasonable planning and layout. In the future, the level of hardware and software construction will be improved, the legislation of the agricultural product market will be vigorously promoted, the public welfare status of the market will be clarified, and various systems of construction, operation and management will be standardized.
How to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic in farmers' markets?
He Qinghua, a first-level inspector of the CDC of China's National Health Commission, said that the epidemic prevention of the farmers' market should pay attention to three links: one is the environment, the other is the goods in the market, and the third is the people in the market.
In terms of environment, one is to strengthen daily management, do a good job of personnel health monitoring, and the sanitation requirements for cleaning. The second is to improve the sanitary facilities of the farmer's market environment, strengthen indoor air circulation, use air conditioning reasonably, and standardize the daily management of facilities such as toilets, garbage collection, water supply and drainage, vector biological control, and hand washing. The third is to appoint a person to sterilize and clean the environmental sanitation, cargo transportation, and cleaning supplies in public areas. The fourth is to do a good job of hygiene in the sales area.
In terms of articles, a traceability system for products should be established. The market operator or market operator should implement the purchase inspection and traceability management system of the relevant department, and must not purchase various products without legal sources.
In terms of personnel, employees and customers should take good personal protection, develop good hygiene habits of wearing masks and gloves, maintaining hand hygiene, and social distance of more than 1 meter.
How to prevent the spread once an epidemic occurs?
"If the farmer market staff and operators have a cough, cold or fever, they should report to the market operator as soon as possible and go to the hospital as soon as possible." He Qinghua pointed out that if a new case of coronary heart disease is diagnosed, the market operator should be active Cooperate with relevant departments to make investigations of close contacts, and the CDC conducts comprehensive market disinfection.
When can the farmer's market closed for epidemic prevention be restarted? He Qinghua emphasized that the market must not only meet the needs of epidemic prevention and control, but also meet the needs of resuming production, reinvigorating production and resuming the market, and comprehensively restoring the order of production and life. Restart.
In response to the recent epidemic of farmers' markets and restaurants in Beijing, Zhang Zhiqiang, deputy director of the Food Department of the National Health and Health Commission of China, has organized relevant organizations to study and draft technical guidelines for the protection of new coronary pneumonia in food production and operation enterprises and their employees. In addition, the Food Safety National Standards Review Committee recently approved the food cold chain production and operation hygienic specifications, which put forward corresponding mandatory food safety requirements for all aspects of food cold chain production, processing, transportation, and sales. The implementation of this standard will More effective prevention and control of food contamination caused by the new coronavirus.
How to ensure food safety?
"In June, after the detection of the new coronavirus in the food and environment of the Xinfadi market in Beijing, we quickly deployed all over the country to carry out monitoring of virus contamination in food." Zhang Zhiqiang revealed that as of July 2, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Henan, etc. Reported more than 50,000 samples of food and other viruses, all of which were negative.
Chen Yun pace, market inspection commissioner of the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration of China, said that with the new market in Beijing as a warning, the next step is that the General Administration of Market Supervision will focus on investigating the hidden dangers of food safety in the farmers' market and deploy key places such as the farmers' market and wholesale markets. Management of food safety risks. Strictly crack down on illegal wildlife trading, prohibit the consumption of wild animals, restrict live poultry trading and slaughtering, encourage the promotion of concentrated slaughtering of live poultry where conditions permit, and gradually cancel live poultry market trading.
The data shows that as of mid-June, the national market supervision department has investigated and handled 450 cases of illegal wildlife trading, inspected various farming markets and other business sites with a total of 17.726 million visits, inspected 56.312 million operating households, closed operations and rectified the market and operating households. More than 12,000 homes. (Finish)