Shanghai, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Known as the "history of the most stringent" food safety local regulations -- "Shanghai Food Safety Regulations" on the 20th officially put into effect. This means that Shanghai will establish a solution to the people's strong reflection of the outstanding problems of food safety the most stringent regulation of long-term mechanism and the most stringent legal responsibility system, to the most stringent rule of law, the implementation of food safety, "the four most stringent" requirements.
The four strictest, that is, the most rigorous standards, the most stringent supervision, the most severe penalties, the most serious accountability.
It is reported that, through nearly two years of efforts, in a wide range of opinions from all sectors of society on the basis of the "Shanghai Municipal Food Safety Regulations" by the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee of the three deliberations, three times to listen to the views of all the representatives of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, and ultimately in January this year by the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress of 14th session of the fifth meeting of the vote passed. Regulations from the original six chapters expanded to eight chapters, adding "food safety risk monitoring, assessment and food safety standards", "food safety accident prevention and disposal" two chapters. The number of articles has increased from 62 to 115, of which 53 are new and 55 are revised, representing an amendment rate of 93.8%. The Regulations supplemented and refined the general provisions on market access, the main responsibilities of producers and operators, the supervision of edible agricultural products, and the requirements for online food business.
The Regulations improve the food safety supervision system and related government responsibilities, including the establishment of municipalities, districts and townships, townships, three-tier food safety supervision and coordination mechanism, coordination, to solve the problem of multi-disciplinary, unclear responsibilities, cross-functional issues; focusing on the provisions of the government's main regulatory departments responsibilities, and strive to eliminate the gaps in the supervision of food safety, etc..
"Regulations" set a strict market access threshold, strengthen the source of governance, to prevent unqualified food into the market. Accordingly, Shanghai will improve the food safety information registration system for food and edible agricultural products imported into Shanghai, the establishment of imported food safety information regulators notify each other of the system; the implementation of information traceability management of key regulatory food and edible agricultural products, the establishment of a unified information traceability platform throughout Shanghai, the use of big data processing and other modern scientific and technological means of supervision and management of food production and operation activities.
According to the "Regulations", Shanghai will implement the production and operation of all aspects of the main responsibility of enterprises: will strengthen the standardization of food production enterprise management; strengthen the whole process of food safety control, the wholesale trading market of food and agricultural products, approaching the shelf-life and beyond the shelf-life of the food and so on put forward a higher management requirements. The Regulations also strictly regulate the disclosure of food processing, food service food safety quantitative grading management system.
The Regulations explore the regulation of online food business. Accordingly, Shanghai will regulate the filing obligations of third-party platform providers for network food trading and food production operators trading on their own websites, the publicity system for network food operators, the management responsibilities of third-party platform providers for network food trading, and the requirements for food distribution in network trading. Zhong Yanqun said, the draft regulations to strengthen the focus of food and related business regulation, including, increased and consumers' daily lives are closely related to the regulation of alcohol, salt, food and other key foods, rural collective meals into the scope of food safety supervision.
In terms of strengthening food safety risk monitoring, accident handling and social supervision, the Regulations refine and improve Shanghai's emergency response plan for food safety accidents, food safety accident handling and reporting, food safety accident investigation and treatment, and food safety emergency control measures. The Regulations crack down on food safety offenses and strive to address the low cost of food safety violations and the high cost of law enforcement. Accordingly, for food safety crimes sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or more, life may not engage in food production and management work, and may not serve as a food production and management enterprise safety management personnel.
On that day, market supervision departments in several districts in Shanghai deployed law enforcement inspection teams to carry out law enforcement.