Notice of the National Health and Family Planning Commission on Food Safety

In order to conscientiously implement the "Decision on Strengthening Food Safety Work" of the State Council (Guo Fa [2012] No. 20, hereinafter referred to as "Decision"), and the "12th Five-Year Plan" of the National Food Safety Supervision System (Guo Guo Fa [2012] 36 No. (hereinafter referred to as “Planning”) and “2013 Key Work Arrangement for Food Safety” (Guobanfa (2013) No. 25) require that the National Health and Family Planning Commission should further implement the food safety standards and risk monitoring and evaluation work as follows:

I. Responsible performance of duties and implementation of tasks in accordance with the State Council's institutional reform and functional change plan. The National Health and Family Planning Commission (hereinafter referred to as the National Health and Family Planning Commission) is responsible for formulating and promulgating food safety standards and organizing food safety risk monitoring and evaluation. jobs. The local health (hygiene and family planning) administrative departments at various levels shall continue to do a good job in relevant work such as food safety standards and risk monitoring and evaluation under the unified leadership of the local government, continuously improve the ability level, and make full use of the expertise of the health and family planning system to local food Safe work will play a role of technical support while strengthening communication and coordination with the Food Safety Office and the regulatory authorities. It is necessary to strengthen the leadership of the organization, earnestly perform its duties, and earnestly improve its execution. For the food safety task undertaken by the health and family planning system in 2013, it is necessary to refine the work plan, clarify the schedule, implement the positions and personnel responsibilities, strengthen supervision and guidance, and evaluate the evaluation to ensure that the tasks are completed.

2. Accelerate the establishment of food safety standards Local health (hygiene and family planning) administrative departments at all levels must conscientiously work on the preparation (repair) and clearing of local food safety standards and the preparation of corporate standards, and improve relevant institutional mechanisms. All localities (repair) set food safety local standards should be based on food safety risk monitoring and assessment results, strictly follow the working procedures, strictly control the establishment of projects, promptly publish local standards, strengthen publicity and follow-up evaluation; to the end of 2013 Before the completion of the clean-up of local food safety standards, if there are any national food safety standards, the corresponding local standards shall be abolished in a timely manner. It is necessary to further perfect the food safety corporate standard filing and open government affairs work. It is necessary to vigorously promote the follow-up evaluation of national food safety standards, make full use of risk monitoring data, comprehensively collect and analyze the status of implementation of the standards, existing problems and suggestions, and report to our committee in a timely manner. Encourage the municipal, district and county-level health (hygiene and family planning) administrative departments to carry out standard follow-up evaluation and record keeping.

III. Conscientiously organize food safety risk monitoring Local health (hygiene and family planning) administrative departments at all levels should further intensify efforts to monitor food safety risks, work with relevant departments to formulate regional risk monitoring programs, and take the lead in formulating and implementing the "unified plan implementation and unification. Funding channels, unified database, and unified data analysis require specific measures. Local disease prevention and control institutions at all levels (hereinafter referred to as disease prevention and control institutions), as the technical lead and data center unit for undertaking risk monitoring tasks, shall collectively analyze and analyze the monitoring data in the region and conduct risk assessments, and encourage the provinces, cities, and regions that have the necessary conditions to do so. The disease prevention and control agencies added the brand of the risk assessment and assessment agency of the administrative region. The local health (hygiene and family planning) administrative departments at all levels shall timely report the monitoring results and their assessment opinions and work progress to the government and the food safety office at the same level, and shall promptly notify the food safety supervision department at the same level of the problems found in the monitoring; The quality control program to strengthen quality control, the provincial health (hygiene and family planning) administrative departments must organize special supervision and inspection of quality control work. The National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center and the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention must continue to follow the relevant division of responsibilities and play a good role in business guidance.

Fourth, do a good job of foodborne disease monitoring report work Local health (hygiene and family planning) administrative departments at all levels shall, in accordance with the requirements of the "Food Safety Law" and its implementation regulations, establish a foodborne disease monitoring and reporting system in the region as soon as possible and clarify the relevant unit reports. Responsibilities, strengthen supervision and inspection, and strengthen technical training. It is necessary to timely analyze food-borne disease information, organize laboratory tests and traceability analysis of food-borne pathogenic substances, and initially verify that food-borne diseases caused by food production and management activities should be promptly notified to the food safety regulatory authority. Important information should be followed Relevant regulations shall be reported to our committee in a timely manner. All localities must perfect the coordination mechanism between food-borne disease surveillance reports, emergency public health emergency handling, and epidemiological investigation of food safety accidents, and cooperate with related departments to dispose of food safety accidents.

V. Solid advancement of food safety risk assessment The provincial health administrative departments (hygiene and family planning committees) must organize local food safety risk assessment work in accordance with outstanding local food safety issues. If the risk monitoring data is subject to risk assessment and the evaluation results show problems, it shall be reported to the government and the food safety office at the same level and notified to the food safety supervision department. It is necessary to coordinate with the work related to the national food safety priority assessment project and provide timely data such as risk monitoring for assessment. The National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center organizes and implements national food safety priority assessment projects in accordance with work needs such as supervision and standards, strengthens assessment of basic data collection, research, and technology reserves; it must accelerate its hardware and software construction and gradually establish a national risk assessment network; Further improve the technical specifications and strengthen the guidance to the technical agencies that undertake the assessment. The Health Supervision Center shall continue to undertake and do a good job of reviewing new food raw materials, new varieties of food additives, and safety assessment materials for new food-related products.

VI.Strengthening Publicity and Risk Communication Work All localities should take the food safety hot issues of public interest and public opinion as the starting point, actively carry out food safety publicity and risk exchange work. The publicity of food safety standards should be taken as the focus of propaganda, using easy-to-understand methods to promote food safety knowledge, guide the public and the media to rationally view the status quo of China's food safety, and scientifically recognize food safety risks. It is necessary to gradually establish a food safety risk exchange expert team, study and formulate relevant work norms, and gradually establish and improve a long-term mechanism. Strengthen the risk communication training for health family planning system personnel and continuously improve the ability level.

VII. Strengthening capacity building for food safety-related work systems Local health (hygiene and family planning) administrative departments at all levels shall, in accordance with the requirements of the “Decision” and the “planning,” comprehensively strengthen food safety standards for health and family planning systems, risk monitoring and assessment, and emergency handling of food safety accidents. The establishment of epidemiological investigations, inspections, and testing systems must actively report to the local government and seek the support of development and reform, finance, and other departments. In accordance with the requirements of the “Food Safety Risk Monitoring Capability (Equipment Configuration) Construction Plan” (Development and Reform Society [2013] No. 422), in conjunction with the local development and reform departments, formulate specific implementation plans for the region and strive for supporting funds to accelerate provincial and prefecture levels. The conditions for the construction of risk monitoring equipment for disease prevention and control institutions must be specifically arranged for the 2013 construction tasks. All localities must establish information systems such as food safety standards and risk monitoring and evaluation in accordance with relevant national requirements to achieve real-time connection of national and provincial food safety data. It is necessary to focus on cultivating high-level food safety standards, monitoring and evaluation of talents, and improving the protection and compensation system for professional personnel.

All localities must take into account the actual conditions in the region, step up efforts to formulate specific work plans for implementation, and report to the local government in a timely manner. The progress of the work and completion of the annual work should be reported to the Committee by the end of January 2014.