□ Pu Xiaolei, reporter of this newspaper
It was originally local rice in Anhui, but after adding flavor, it became "Thai jasmine rice"; The second branch of Beijing Dream Bee Chain Commercial Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Convenience Bee, was fined 5,<> yuan by the Beijing Dongcheng District Market Supervision Administration for allegedly selling food beyond the shelf life... A number of food safety incidents in recent days have once again aroused people's attention to "safety on the tip of the tongue".
In recent years, China has continued to strengthen quality and safety supervision in the food field, and the food safety situation has generally been stable and improving. At the same time, with the improvement of living standards, the people's expectations and demand for food safety have also been continuously improved. At present, there are still some hidden problems in China's food safety, such as imperfect supervision of online shopping food safety and insufficient improvement of food safety Internet traceability system.
In this regard, a number of NPC deputies and experts pointed out in an interview with the "Rule of Law Daily" reporter that it is necessary to improve the efficiency of supervision and continuously improve the ability and level of food safety governance by accelerating the construction of a food safety Internet traceability system and establishing a smart supervision platform.
Record and monitor the information of each link
Luo Wen, director of the State Administration for Market Regulation, previously said that this year will take effective measures in three aspects: improving and improving the risk control mechanism, strictly implementing the main responsibility of enterprises, and supervising the implementation of territorial management responsibilities to ensure that once food safety problems occur, people can be found, things can be clarified, and responsibilities can be achieved, and the people's "safety on the tip of the tongue" can be effectively guaranteed.
To "find people, find things, and fulfill responsibilities", an important technical measure is to build a food safety traceability system.
In recent years, relevant departments and localities have explored the food safety Internet traceability system and achieved phased results. In 2021, Zhejiang took the lead in launching the "Zhejiang Food Chain" system in the country - consumers only need to scan the "Zhejiang Food Chain" QR code on the food packaging to obtain full-link information such as origin, processing, inspection and quarantine, and sales. Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province has deeply integrated food safety supervision and Internet technology, built a traceability platform for edible agricultural products in Guangzhou with blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing as its core technologies, and opened an intelligent supervision model.
Gao Youdong, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice chairman of the Central Committee for Promoting Democracy, pointed out that from a nationwide perspective, the food safety situation is still grim. At present, there are still problems such as insufficient understanding of the traceability system at the social level, imperfect supporting technology of the traceability system, and imperfect management mechanism of the traceability system. In this regard, it is recommended to rely on industrial Internet technology to establish a fully closed-loop operation technical environment and accelerate the construction of a food safety Internet traceability system.
Specifically, it is necessary to use advanced technology to integrate traceability system information, promote information sharing and effective docking in all links, and establish a full-process traceability system. Relying on industrial Internet related technologies, it solves a number of "stuck neck" technical problems such as automatic recording of production information, integration and sharing of logistics information, Internet feedback of consumer information, and intelligent research and judgment of food origin. Through Internet identification analysis and traceability related technologies, the information of food production, processing, transportation, storage and sales is recorded and monitored, and the longitudinal closed-loop traceability of "farmland to table" is realized, and the information of all kinds of production materials such as fertilizers, pesticides, feed and packaging materials and food labels in the production stage is traced and marked, so as to realize horizontal traceability covering all foods and food raw materials. Through artificial intelligence, big data (shareable traceability) detection platform, and use cloud platform functions to analyze and screen the data collected every day, it provides valuable reference data for consumers, functional regulatory departments, and enterprises.
Use big data to regulate online food purchases
At present, it is very common for the public to buy food through the Internet. For consumers, online food has certain potential risks due to the virtualization of the trading environment.
Chen Ruiai, a professor at South China Agricultural University, believes that there are still some difficulties in the supervision of online shopping food safety, which are mainly reflected in the difficulty of supervision of the source and circulation, the imperfect supervision methods and social co-governance mechanisms, the difficulty of post-event accountability, and the high cost of litigation and rights protection.
Chen Ruiai pointed out that merchants who shop food online have accumulated massive amounts of data, which objectively laid a solid foundation for the use of big data for supervision. Regulatory functional departments should actively explore online means to adapt to online shopping food safety supervision, deeply connect the food safety supervision information system of market supervision departments with online ordering platforms, use real-time big data collection and comparative analysis technology to timely discover food safety risk points, and push merchants' violations of laws and regulations to law enforcement personnel and online food ordering platforms in real time, so as to achieve accurate delivery of regulatory forces.
At the same time, for the procurement, production and distribution of online shopping food raw materials, build a transparent, traceable and detectable supply chain visual management platform to realize the full traceability of raw material suppliers and production bases, so that the masses can truly choose and eat with confidence.
Chen Ruiai proposed to establish and improve the interview mechanism between market supervision departments and online food ordering platforms. Clarify platform responsibilities, report problem risks, discuss governance measures, integrate evaluation systems, deepen credit supervision, promote online food ordering platforms to use the quantitative food safety grading indicators of market supervision departments as the basis for the evaluation system of consumer review indicators, assess merchants' credit ratings, set up credit red lines, and immediately take offline treatment once they fall below to ensure that consumers' legitimate rights and interests are truly protected.
Implement a production license system for prepared dishes
In recent years, the prepared vegetable industry has developed rapidly. According to the trend data of the prepared vegetable industry jointly released by Jingdong Supermarket and the China Prepared Vegetable Industry Alliance Association, the market size of the prepared vegetables market will be 2022.4196 billion yuan in <>.
In 2023, the Central Document No. <> proposed to cultivate and develop the prepared vegetable industry. A number of NPC deputies suggested that the prepared vegetable industry should be promoted by improving national standards and strengthening whole-process supervision.
Zheng Simin, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Delis, believes that the current prefabricated vegetable industry is generally good, but there are also many pain points in the development of the industry. For example, the industry lacks standardization, and although relevant departments are intensively introducing relevant standards for prepared dishes, there is still a lack of perfect national standards and industry standards, which is not conducive to the long-term benign development of the industry.
Zheng Simin suggested that the systematic standardization system of the whole process of production management should be improved, and the primary, secondary and tertiary industries involved in the prepared vegetable industry should improve the corresponding production standards. Introduce national or industry standards as soon as possible to prevent food safety risks and create a good market environment.
Si Fuchun, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Provincial Key Laboratory of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, believes that while the rapid development of the prepared vegetable industry, it has also produced problems such as lack of industry or national standards, mixed practitioners, and uneven product quality, and strengthening the safety supervision of prepared vegetables has become an urgent topic to be solved.
Si Fuchun suggested strengthening the supervision of the whole process. Implement a production license system, raise the threshold for market access, and prevent disorderly and vicious competition in the industry. Implement traceability management, establish a traceability system for the whole process from raw material procurement, production and processing, storage and transportation, market sales, etc., to ensure the quality and safety of prepared dishes from the source. Implement the main responsibility of food producers and traders, establish a supervision system for enterprise creditworthiness archives, and periodically publish the "red and black list". Strengthen food quality testing, normalize the use of third-party testing and "flight inspection", and severely crack down on the abuse of additives. It can accurately distinguish the prefabricated vegetable products according to the degree of product prefabrication, which is conducive to ensuring the taste and texture of the product and ensuring food safety.