Ministry of Public Health starts the food safety standard to combine The medicines security situation of food is severe

Ministry of Public Health starts the food safety standard to combine The medicines security situation of food is severe
Solve standard lacking, repeats and contradiction problem especially
Food pathogenic microorganism, residues of pesticides, microbial residue, standard with a limit on quantity of the heavy metal polluter will be regarded as the priority area
Xiong JianFeng
Ministry of Public Health Vice Minister such as macro 29 such as Chen in " The safe responsibility forum of 2009 food medicines " On reveal,Ministry of Public Health together with related departments already if you can't last food the integrations of the safety standards, work.
It is in conformity with China's social economic development that the goal of the safety standard revision of new food is set up progressively, consert with standard system of international food, meet and ensure the food safety standard system that the people need healthily, revise the problem that will solve standard lacking, repeating and contradiction in the course especially.
Great to say standard revise in the the course, will draw lessons from the international experience extensively, will fully use the risk assessment result of the food security whistle Chen, regard the revision of food pathogenic microorganism, residues of pesticides, microbial residue, standard and food additive with a limit on quantity of the heavy metal polluter as the priority area.
Ministry of Public Health will invite the relevant expert in each field to participate in standard revision, also welcome enterprises to participate. The standard after revising will form the draft, will solicit the opinion of the society extensively, will include listening to the opinions of international organization and relevant country, totally go on at the request of WTO.
Besides Ministry of Public Health, departments such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Department of Commerce,etc. are setting about integration and unity of the food medicines standard.
The food medicines supervisory system of China is comparatively numerous and jumbled, according to the stipulations of " food safety law " issued newly, the elementary agricultural products [11.19 3.61% ] of management of agricultural sector are processed, the links of production and processing of department's management of quality testing, departments such as the industry and commerce,etc. are responsible for managing consumption links, the Ministry of Health is responsible for the meal diet product to supervise, the quality testing department is responsible for the food of imports and exports to supervise.
Chen XiaoHua, Vice Minister of Ministry of Agriculture, says, will advance agricultural standardization production in the future, promote the transition of the agricultural mode of production, from coming up to guarantee quality safety of agricultural product at all, accelerate the revision of agricultural product quality criterias, complete and perfect the agricultural product quality safety standard systems that unity, science are rational.
Lu JianHua, assistant minister of Department of Commerce, says, to involving food rule and local regulation rule of security department of field of circulation to comb currently, offer the suggestion of revising or abrogating in time according to " food safety law ", promote products standard and national standard related to food security in the field of circulation to be unified.
Except integration of the standard, great to say China strengthen the safety of food the risk will monitor the construction of evaluation system whistle Chen, strive to use about 2 years to set up and cover the food to produce and manage every link in the whole country, pollutant of food from city to countryside, eating source disease to monitor and investigate the system with the total meal.
Set up the national food security risk assessment centre, set up subcenter in the conditional province, perfect the risk evaluation system of the food security. Meanwhile, Ministry of Public Health continue, move forward the food security rectify, work thoroughly together with related departments. It violates and adds the non- edible material and abuses the food additive list to continue releasing, investigate and prosecute developing, production, sale and use and does not eat and add the behavior of the material.
The food medicines security situation of China is still comparatively severe, the notification of the national food poisoning reveals in the second quarter of what Ministry of Public Health releases, Ministry of Public Health receives the national food poisoning and reports 77 together in the second quarter, poisoned 3063, 48 persons of death. Report compared with the same period last year the quantity has increased by 40%, poisoned the number of people to increase by 11.3%, the death toll has increased by 65.5%.
It is important pillar industries of China that food medicines produce the trade, the statistical data reveal, [15.28 - 5.91% ] value of industrial output of Chinese medicine is increased progressively by 17.25% every year in 1978~2008, well-above the speed of the increase in GDP of the same period.
The industry of Chinese food [4.84 - 1.22% ] includes the processing of the agricultural byproducts by 2007, including relevant industries such as food making, beverage manufacturing industry and catering trade, food, agricultural product,etc. and output value of medical industry have totalled and already exceeded 4,700 billion, it has already accounted for about 20% of GDP total amount.

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