Are food issues related to our survival security?

1. Food safety is a major basic livelihood issue

Food is the first priority for the people, and safety is the minimum requirement for food consumption. Without safety, color, flavor, and nutrition are out of the question; Safety is also the highest requirement for food consumption. It is related to people's health and even lives, and food safety takes precedence over everything else. Everyone needs safe food and everyone must maintain food safety.

Ensuring food safety is the legal responsibility of all food producers and operators, governments at all levels, and relevant regulatory authorities. We must continue to increase supervision and promote internal self-management by strengthening the external binding force of producers and operators. Ability is steadily improving. At the same time, the whole society also needs to care about maintaining food safety and support the work of the government.

When we find illegal food safety issues, we must take active action and proactively report them to the regulatory authorities, instead of just complaining and complaining, let alone creating false information out of thin air, which will only affect the normal supervision work. , brings about consumer panic, and it is our consumers who ultimately suffer.

2. Food safety is an important symbol of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way

Party committees and governments at all levels and relevant departments must adhere to the supremacy of people’s interests and firmly establish a people-centered development concept. Put food safety protection in a more prominent position, continuously improve food safety supervision systems and mechanisms, and vigorously implement food safety strategies. We must adhere to the shared responsibility of the party and government, address both the symptoms and root causes, strengthen overall coordination, and continuously enhance the unity and professionalism of food safety supervision.

Effectively improve the level and capabilities of food safety supervision. We must give full play to the unified leadership of the Food Safety Committee and the comprehensive coordination role of the Food Safety Office, adhere to source control, pay equal attention to production and management, attach importance to laws and regulations and control chaos, consolidate the responsibilities of all links and aspects, strive to improve supervision efficiency, gather social governance synergies, and continuously Improve people's satisfaction and sense of gain.

Extended information:

Major food safety incident - Sanlu milk powder incident

The 2008 Chinese dairy product contamination incident (or the 2008 Chinese milk powder contamination incident Accident, 2008 China's tainted milk product accident, 2008 China's tainted milk powder accident) is a food safety incident in China. The cause of the accident was that many babies who consumed milk powder produced by Sanlu Group were found to have kidney stones, and the chemical raw material melamine was subsequently found in the milk powder.

According to published figures, as of September 21, 2008, a total of 39,965 infants and young children had received outpatient treatment and consultation due to the use of infant formula and had recovered, and 12,892 were currently hospitalized. Previously, 1,579 people have been cured and discharged, and 4 people have died. As of September 25, 5 people in Hong Kong and 1 person in Macau have been diagnosed with the disease. The incident has aroused great concern in various countries and concerns about the safety of dairy products.

After the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China announced the melamine inspection report on infant milk powder produced by domestic dairy manufacturers, the incident quickly worsened, including Yili, Mengniu, Guangming, Shengyuan and Yashili. Melamine was detected in the milk powder of the manufacturer. The incident also severely damaged the credibility of Chinese-made products, and many countries banned the import of Chinese dairy products.

On September 24, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China stated that the milk incident has been brought under control, and that major varieties of liquid milk such as yogurt, pasteurized milk, and sterilized milk newly produced after September 14 will No melamine was detected in the melamine sampling test of the samples.

In September 2010, governments in many places in China issued an ultimatum: If the problematic milk powder from 2008 is turned in before September 30, 2010, there will be no penalties. A 2011 survey by China Central Television's "Weekly Quality Report" found that 70% of Chinese people still dare not buy domestic milk.

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