This not only jeopardizes people's health, but also has jeopardized the country's public **** security system and social stability. China's food safety once again sounded the alarm!
Food safety alarm bells ringing
"Flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, in addition to airplanes, cars, boats, what all dare to eat." This sentence is certainly some exaggeration, but from one aspect also shows that we dare to eat a lot of things. But now, due to some of the food safety incidents that have occurred in recent years, it has raised the question, "What else can we eat?" The question of "What else can we eat? It's not something we can't afford not to reflect on.
We first look at the Ministry of Health informed the second quarter of 2006 food poisoning:
In the second quarter of 2006, the Ministry of Health **** received the national food poisoning incident report 185, 5696 people were poisoned, 64 people died.
In that quarter, the number of reported cases of food poisoning and the number of people poisoned in collective canteens were the highest, accounting for 40% of the total number of reported cases and 43.4% of the number of people poisoned, respectively; and the number of deaths from food poisoning that occurred in families was the highest, accounting for 85.9% of the total number of reported deaths.
Compared with the previous quarter, microbial food poisoning increased significantly, with the number of reported cases increasing by 336.8%, the number of poisonings increasing by 436.2%, and the number of deaths increasing by 133.3%. It was mainly caused by pathogenic microorganisms such as Salmonella, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Bacillus cereus and Proteus.
Look at another set of data:
China's foodborne disease monitoring results show that: microbial food poisoning in the first place, accounting for 39.62%; animal food is China's main cause of food poisoning, accounting for 21.88% of the total; followed by aquatic products, accounting for 10.11%; chemical food poisoning accounted for 38.56%; food poisoning occurs mainly in the collective canteen which accounted for 27.1%; and food service units accounted for 23.6%.
In the incident of poor-quality milk powder, babies who were just a few months old, after consuming the poor-quality milk powder, appeared to have a big head, swelling and low fever. The culprit was the milk powder that was supposed to provide them with sufficient "nutrients", but those delicate little flowers withered just a few months after they came into the world.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified Sudan Red IV as a Group III carcinogen, and its primary metabolites, o-aminoazotoluene and o-toluidine, were classified as Group II carcinogens, which are likely to cause cancer in humans. On Nov. 12, some "red salted duck eggs" produced by the Hebei Baiyangdian Guohua Poultry Egg Processing Factory, which reappeared in the Beijing food market, contained a large amount of Sudan Red IV.
In the Guangzhou Baiyun District of the outrageous "fake wine poisoning" incident, the lawless elements have used industrial alcohol blended bulk white wine, crippling one after another innocent lives, many people died of poisoning, and there are more than a dozen other people due to the consumption of fake wine and lead to blindness, organ damage, the poisoned people are lying in the wards waiting for Saving treatment. Methanol, a toxic substance, was mixed into the bulk wine, which was the root cause of many deaths. While the defendants feel "innocent", who should be responsible for the "poisoned wine" incident?
What are the reasons?
Law enforcement brigades often act collectively in uniforms and law enforcement vehicles to break up illegal dens, investigate and prosecute wrongdoers, revoke their licenses and confiscate their illegal gains. This is already every year "3?15" or New Year's Day will be a landscape.
However, regulation is so intensive that it has cost a fortune, but the results are not obvious. The increase in the number of regulators after food enters the market often does not mean more effective regulation. Among the field of administrative supervision, the issuance of permits, licenses, these acts of approval, have a certain economic value. Behind the power of approval is departmental interests, and with the power of approval is indiscriminate charging.
Not until 2002 did China set up the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), the formation of which demonstrated the determination of the decision-makers to reconsider the issue of food safety from a global perspective, but the first step in the establishment of a new system is extremely difficult to take, the key is that it does not replace the agriculture, health, quality inspection and other departments of food safety supervision functions, which will inevitably lead to the interests of the various sectors of the dispute and the responsibilities of the "Hide", its effectiveness is not optimistic.
Guangdong Food Institute, vice president of South China Agricultural University Professor Chen Yongquan that the primary reason for too many food safety management departments, are responsible for and can not be held accountable. Therefore, in order to ultimately eliminate food safety hazards, there must be appropriate legal support. But at present, this is precisely the "short legs" of food safety.
In China's food safety incidents, the serious lack of supervision beforehand, cross-functional between departments, food standards, incomplete regulations, backward monitoring means, local protectionism, law enforcement officers corrupt ...... makes it difficult to form a regularized, effective supervision; after the accountability is even more lack of power, many food safety incidents In many food safety accidents, the protection of the rights and interests of the victims is insufficient, and the punishment for the perpetrators is small and the criminal responsibility is light, which cannot form a sufficient deterrent effect. These chronic problems are concentrated together, the food safety problem is magnified.
Related experts pointed out: the occurrence of a series of food quality problems, but also reflects a weakness of China's food safety - lagging behind and inconsistent compared with international standards. And in international trade, inconsistency with international standards, the same is easy to let the foreign certain defects and even affect the health of consumers to take advantage of the goods.
Existing regulations do not have sufficient deterrent power, some regulatory authorities on food safety violations rely mainly on the confiscation mode of management, most of which is to destroy dens, seizure of processing sites or closure of the business, food safety accidents, but those responsible for the often escape legal sanctions. In addition to the removal of food from the shelves, according to the current regulations, the maximum penalty for food safety violations is not more than 30,000 yuan, either by a fine of several times the amount of sales. In fact, it is not easy to get evidence of sales, nor is it easy for consumers to claim their rights to obtain evidence. So while protecting the rights and interests of victims, it is important to crack down on "black heart" products, so that manufacturers do not dare to repeat the offense.
The opposite of management is the market. If there is still a possibility of negligence, then the self-management from within the market can be maximized to make up for it, so that the fake products to cut off the root.
Aiming at these problems, the state has been in the medium and long term scientific and technological development plan for the deployment of the "15" national major scientific and technological special projects "food safety key technology" through the acceptance of the 2006 national scientific and technological research projects "Food safety" is also about to start.
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Expert advice: how to choose safe food
What does the food safety problem refer to specifically? Food safety issues are not limited to two aspects. One is the nutritional value and quality of the food itself; and now more attention should be paid to another aspect of food safety, that is, food in the production, processing, transportation, storage, sales process, artificial changes in its natural, pure and produce safety problems. In fact, it is this aspect of the problem that has a greater impact on people's health, such as food production. Many crops use a lot of pesticides, while eliminating pests and diseases, but the pesticide residue in the food, fruits and vegetables, in fact, this part of the food has been contaminated, people eat, how can be beneficial to the body? In addition, the excessive use of chemical fertilizers, the use of growth promoters, ripening agents, etc., will also affect human health through the intake of food. In the food processing sector, the same problem: "industrial alcohol blended into white wine", "industrial oil on rice polishing wax", "swill oil production of fried food", in addition to food, The first is that the first time a person is in the hospital, the second is that the first time a person is in the hospital, the third is that the first time a person is in the hospital.
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Editor's note: Food safety is more important than Mount Tai, as the saying goes: "People are iron, food is steel, a meal is not eaten hunger panic." Food safety is not only related to people's health, but also a guarantee of social harmony and stability. Even if the food can not do "zero risk", then the relevant parties should also strive to create a relatively safe eating environment for everyone. This requires law enforcement agencies, the catering industry to the safety of people's lives on the top priority, to make practical and favorable action. And our consumers usually should know more about some basic dietary knowledge. Liu Genqi Digest replied.