Food safety regulatory -- Department of evil difficult

except. Disputes over trifles

Health reporter MengQingPu

    "Toxic bean sprouts" grey zone again aeration supervision

    A few days ago, shenyang, liaoning province to expose "toxic bean sprouts" incident (see our newspaper reports 20 April 3rd edition), the city related department to carry out special research, but meeting commerce, qualitative inspect, agriculture and other functional departments are says "don't return I tube", and have "full" reasons.

    According to the legal daily, the city industry and Commerce Department said on neither get food production license and have no business license management behavior, it defies with "unlicensed" punishment, or it is the food production license cover up facts. Meanwhile, the regulation of food production field by qualitative inspect branch should be responsible, not by industry and Commerce Department responsible for should. The city qualitative inspect branch said, if will bean sprout as product quality standard adjustment products, will lead to chaos in the legislation and enforcement, bean sprout shall be deemed to be primary agricultural products, agricultural departments to regulatory appropriate. The city's department of agriculture says, according to the law of produce quality safety regulation, obtained in agricultural activity of animals and plants, microbial primary products are primary agricultural products, agriculture department responsible for supervision by. And bean sprout not primary agricultural products, is the primary agricultural products processed by agriculture department, should not be responsible for the supervision.

     "Bean sprout absolutely not alone. In the whole food safety supervision chain, as long as they are in place, the department crossover existed regulatory gray areas." Hebei health department, said YangYongChao health administration so called grey zone not blind area, because laws, regulations have principle provision, but once the accident happened, departments and can "reasonably" bitching, mutual "to kick ball".

    What other regulatory gray zone sunned

    When accepting a reporter to interview, YangYongChao of guangdong province, the CDC director ZhangYongHui, China CDC food security researcher strict satellite experts cited in the current food safety regulatory problems: some of the common

     - environmental pollution leading to produce safety problems. Some time ago to media exposure of cadmium rice is typical of this aspect. Regulators have involved in environmental protection, land, agriculture, health. Environmental pollution belong to the environmental protection department supervision; The land quality belong to land branch supervision; Agricultural pollution on human health risk assessment, can be incorporated into the food safety risk assessment, also can produce quality safety risk assessment into two types of assessment, belong to two departments of health and agriculture. Because it involves a department, although this kind of problem more public attention, but solve up very little progressed, even for pollution, whether exist accomodations health hazard such fundamental questions that are not clear.

     - food medium regulatory issues. The most typical is melamine events and lean fine events. Two kinds of events is the essence of their food manufacturing company gave no good close, raw materials while raw is actually a medium. Farmers your production in milk, raising pigs can supply large enterprise, but also can directly to market, different distribution belong to different regulators, and functions across each other, including agriculture, quality inspection, business, industry and commerce and so on, if this link exists illegal behavior, which is clearly accountable department? For this kind of problem is all the actual circs, always lack of long-effect mechanism.

     - food processing of small. The most typical stain is steamed bread, toxic bean sprouts. For example, steamed bread supervision, steamed bread (production) should be quality inspection department; Selling steamed bread (business) to industry and commerce departments; Eat steamed bread (food consumption), to feed the drug agency. So, the steamed bread store what street? Who supervision to Each department can tube, of course, also can "justified" to avoid going to the tube. Bean sprouts this kind of agricultural products according to actual production more complex, may add to the agriculture department to regulation.

     -- -- -- the packaged food problem. Many rural market fair sold on the food, such as naked as cookies, cakes, no packaging, production date and expiration, belong to advance into containers, again operators to offer consumers of food packaging, although gets involved in quality inspection, industry and commerce, food, but several departments as developto the present basic and unmanned tube. Airplane airline catering also can delimit the category.

    - "hang sheep head sell vinegar" problem. Abuse beef cream, "hybrid rice + essence" smoked out "rice", a drop of incense extraordinary variable fresh soup, belong to food additive production, use regulatory issues involving quality inspection, industry and commerce, food also, public health and other multiple agencies. Because this kind of behavior is essentially a fraud, but also involves consumer society, public security, etc. In recent years, governments although often high-profile blow, but still problems continue.

    Straighten out system and should be "through" crackdown

    "Illegal behavior and government regulatory lacunae in China's current overlay, one of the features of food safety problems." ZhangYongHui said, addressing food safety problems, must intensifying crackdown on illegal behavior, grasping perfect regulation system, eliminate as soon as possible the supervision of food safety gray zone.

     Experts say the law was revised and perfected straighten out of the regulatory system premise. At present, and food safety the relevant laws have product quality standard, produce quality safety, food safety three department money-raising. Appear food security, different law enforcement agencies are mutual dispute over trifles, have root lies in different departments may, according to the different legal conduct their own interpretation. Must be settled as soon as possible in the three laws of cohesion in food safety regulations.

    On this basis, the reform of the "with piecewise management as the auxiliary, product management monitoring system. The current food safety regulatory model in subsection of the product, is planned economy is not conform to the present situation of the development of market economy, also do not meet the food production scientific discipline. For example, "is also a pig, why to spread and centralized slaughter by different departments to slaughter (agriculture and business) regulation?" In addition, many departments must establish their own supervision team, laboratory and purchasing equipments, instruments, waste a great amount of resources.

     Expert proposal, in combination with the characteristics of administrative management, integrated supervision as soon as possible ZeQuan resources and establishing the consistent, food production process, covering national relative unified food safety monitoring system.