-Discussion on food safety supervision

Background playback of news events

After the Sanlu incident in 2008, some ridicule about food safety appeared on the Internet:

1, China people have completed chemical literacy in food:

We know paraffin wax from rice.

We know dichlorvos from ham.

We know Sudan red from salted duck eggs and Chili sauce.

We got to know formalin from the hot pot.

We know sulfur from tremella and candied dates.

Knowing copper sulfate from auricularia auricula

And the Sanlu incident let compatriots know the chemical function of melamine.

2. foreigners drink milk and get strong.

People in China drink milk stones.

3. Japanese slogan: A glass of milk a day revitalizes a nation.

China population number: a glass of milk a day shocks a nation.

A bunch of people involved in the Sanlu series of criminal cases were finally severely punished according to law. Tian Wenhua was sentenced to life imprisonment, deprived of political rights for life and fined RMB 2,468.7411ten thousand yuan for the crime of producing and selling fake and inferior products. Defendant Gao Junjie, who produced and sold "protein powder" (containing melamine), was sentenced to death with a suspended sentence for the crime of endangering public security by dangerous means, while defendants Zhang Yanzhang and Xue Jianzhong were sentenced to life imprisonment for the same crime. The other 15 defendants were each sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from two to fifteen years.

Through Sanlu's "tainted milk powder" incident, China was given a vivid food safety education lesson at the expense of tens of thousands of children's lives and health. Afterwards, food safety supervision departments, local governments, dairy industry, etc. all summarized and reflected, and made various commitments and statements. However, the problem of food safety has not been contained, but it is getting worse. Only since 20 1 1 year, food safety problems have been exposed again in many places, and the clenbuterol incident in Henan has been raging, and clenbuterol has been repeatedly banned during1year; Then came the "Poisonous Pepper" incident in Chongqing, the ink vermicelli incident in Zhongshan, Guangdong, the "Poisonous Ginger" incident in Yichang, Hubei, the poisonous bean sprouts incident in Shenyang, Liaoning, the watermelon swelling agent incident in Danyang, Jiangsu, the steamed bread dyeing incident in Shanghai and the gutter oil incident that swept the country recently ...

(A) the current situation of food safety in China

In response to "What's your biggest concern about safety?", some time ago, the survey results of Sina.com showed that 30.7% of the respondents thought it was food safety, ranking first. According to the reporter's visit, it is found that there are "four sins" in food safety at present, which worries consumers most.

A crime: "Medicine kills you". Pesticide residues in vegetables and fruits exceed the standard, and additives are illegally used and abused in some foods, endangering consumers' health.

Two sins: "black heart". Every year, a large amount of food flows to the market from "black workshops", "black factories", "black markets" and "black dens", with dirty environment, irregular production and substandard quality.

Three sins: "mask". Some food producers and sellers "confuse the fake with the real" and "shoddy", and resort to tricks to falsify food, making it difficult for consumers to distinguish between authenticity and deception.

Four deadly sins: "playing with concepts." All kinds of genetically modified foods, nanotechnology foods and organic foods with high-tech labels are popular, among which there are many vague labels and nonstandard products, which often make ordinary consumers spend money in ignorance and spend in a muddle.

When talking about how to eradicate the "four sins", the consumers interviewed have "three hopes": one hopes to put an end to "soft supervision". Second, I hope that the food industry will rebuild its credit system. Third, I hope to improve my awareness of supervision and rights protection. (The above information comes from Modern Express on September 9, 20 1 1.)

To sum up, food safety has the following three characteristics: First, the problem food is more and more extensive. The problem food has expanded from the traditional staple food such as grain, oil, meat, poultry, eggs, vegetables, bean products and aquatic products to fruits, alcohol, dry goods, dairy products and roasted seeds and nuts, showing a three-dimensional and all-round trend. Second, the harm degree of problem food is getting deeper and deeper, which has moved from the health hazard outside food to the safety hazard inside food. In the past, we only paid attention to the total number of bacteria in food, but now it is the residues of pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals that go deep into food. Third, the methods of making drugs and making inferior products are more and more diverse, more and more "in-depth" and more and more hidden, from the outside of food to the inside, from the physical to the chemical. Judging from the exposure of toxic and harmful foods, criminals' methods of making drugs and counterfeiting are innovative and varied, which is unimaginable, and it has reached the point of "not afraid that you can't do it, but you are afraid that you can't think of it".

(II) Causes

The latest data from authoritative departments show that in 20 10, the relevant departments * * * inspected 35.52 million production and business units of various edible agricultural products, food and related products, investigated and dealt with violations of laws and regulations in all aspects130,000, arrested 248 criminal suspects, and banned and stopped production of more than 10,000 illegal enterprises 10 (source: Xinhua News Agency, 200,000) The Supreme People's Procuratorate reported the situation of cracking down on crimes endangering food safety. Qiu Xueqiang, Party Secretary and Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that since September last year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate has supervised 76 cases of manufacturing and selling fake and shoddy food with great influence. Since the beginning of this year, the national procuratorial organs * * * have put on record 37 cases of duty crimes involving food safety involving 57 people, including 39 dereliction of duty offenders (from Legal Evening News on May 23rd, 201/). It can be seen that the rectification of food safety is not great, but the "vitality" of toxic food shows no obvious signs of decline. Why are food safety incidents still frequent?

Poisonous foods emerge in an endless stream, completely ignoring the repeated requests from the central government to the local government, becoming "invincible cockroaches", which are caused by factors such as lack of system, lax law enforcement, official achievements, and more moral factors. After analysis and comparison, the causes of food safety problems in China are mainly as follows:

1, there is no industry entry threshold, and the producers and operators are hard to distinguish, especially the existence of the original food inspection-free system, which allows enterprises to run amok, leaving many regulatory gaps. In addition, at present, China's laws have a relatively light punishment for illegal enterprises, which can't achieve the effect of "killing chickens as an example". Now we are "pulling chicken feathers to show monkeys", and the illegal cost of enterprises is too low, which makes many enterprises feel lucky.

2, multi-head supervision, poor implementation. At present, China's food safety supervision system is a mode of "subsection management is the main mode, supplemented by variety management", which leads to fragmentation and poor communication in food safety management. Due to the different management systems of these departments, the competent departments of people, finance and materials have their own owners. Therefore, the "gathering of institutions" has increased the difficulty of government management of food safety. The supervision of one aspect by multiple departments often requires the coordination of the government, which increases the management cost and reduces the management efficiency. The history of the separation and integration of the State Food and Drug Administration and the Ministry of Health shows that the idea of establishing an independent food safety supervision department seems to be not very clear, which not only affects the effectiveness of food safety supervision, but also causes the drawback of unclear accountability.

3. The food safety standard system is not perfect. The main manifestations are that it can't meet the international standards, the system structure design of food safety standards is not reasonable enough, the in-depth study of standards is not enough, the implementation of some standards is poor, and even the mandatory standards have not been well implemented. For example, the Dairy Industry Standard revised in July was appraised by experts as "25 years backward, which is the worst in the world", and China was also called "kidnapped by a few large enterprises, which is the worst standard in the world".

4. The government needs to use laws, regulations and corresponding policy tools to supervise food safety. At present, the policies and regulations are not perfect, so they cannot be legalized and institutionalized, and there is no long-term mechanism. In the face of emerging food safety problems, "fire fighting" governance is often adopted. Wherever problems occur, they will be treated, and after the incident, "swords and guns will be put in storage and horses will be put in the south." As a result, counterfeiting and selling fakes have been repeatedly treated and banned, and even all of them are getting worse.

5. Insufficient financial investment and unreasonable resource allocation of testing institutions. As a developing country, China's lack of national financial resources is an unavoidable problem. The lack of state financial input has caused the following three problems: First, the capacity of some testing projects urgently needed by the state is insufficient. For example, the identification technology of unknown toxic and harmful substances in food, prohibited items, hormones, pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues, dioxin, mad cow disease detection, safety evaluation of genetically modified foods, etc., the gap between the supervision and inspection ability and the international level has gradually increased, which has restricted the improvement of food hygiene supervision and management level. Second, the interest drive leads to the deviation of law enforcement behavior of law enforcement departments. For example, some law enforcement agencies focus on law enforcement with economic benefits, and punish them instead of punishment, and once they are punished, the supervision of law enforcement is tight and loose, and illegal acts are repeatedly prohibited, and some even act as umbrellas for illegal operators. Third, the establishment of grass-roots food hygiene supervision institutions and the allocation of technical personnel can not meet the needs of supervision work.

6, food production and operators lack of integrity, moral distortion. Food producers and operators only focus on money and lose the moral bottom line. Many of them disregard the legal prohibition and take risks and try their best to try the law. At present, it is very difficult for both government departments and consumers to grasp the credit status of food hygiene quality of enterprises, and it is difficult to eliminate information asymmetry, encourage trustworthy people, crack down on and curb untrustworthy people, trace their responsibilities, and form an honest business atmosphere.

A passage published by Bai Yansong in Weibo is worth pondering: We are all plaintiffs and defendants now. People who sell pork happily come out to buy steamed bread with the money earned from pork mixed with lean meat, but they didn't expect steamed bread to be dyed by others. Then people who sell dyed steamed buns come out to buy milk powder for their children, which contains melamine. Everyone is hurting others, and everyone is a victim. This is a vicious circle.

Third, the necessity and deficiency of government supervision

In order to punish unscrupulous and illegal food producers, the State Council has set up a food safety committee. Its duties include: analyzing the food safety situation, formulating planning and guiding principles, proposing supervision policies and leading their implementation. But supervision should be implemented and long-term, not slogans and promises. After the appearance of dyed steamed bread in Shanghai, Wang Longxing, director of the Shanghai Food Safety Office, apologized to the public for "dyeing" steamed bread and said that he would "resolutely not protect his shortcomings" during the investigation. After apologizing, the public is more eager to see, not only verbal statements, determination and even guarantees and promises, but also whether the food similar to dyed steamed bread can no longer appear on the table of ordinary people in the future, and how can they eat safe food, safe meat, safe steamed bread and safe food in their later lives? This is what the people always keep an eye on, and in this respect, the people most hope that the government will do a solid job. Since dyed steamed bread has been sold in supermarkets for a long time, where was the government's previous supervision? Don't be forced to make promises and apologies when something goes wrong, and conduct so-called crisis public relations, because promises and apologies will not change the flawed food safety system. I'm afraid this is what worries the people most. What the people want most is normalized daily supervision and source treatment, not piecemeal treatment. Otherwise, other events similar to the "steamed bread incident" will inevitably occur again in the future, and then the relevant departments will have to come out to apologize, guarantee, make a statement and investigate.

(A) the necessity of government supervision

1, information asymmetry leads to market failure.

Because of information asymmetry, manufacturers who have more information may have opportunistic behaviors, harm consumers' interests, reduce the whole social welfare and make the market inefficient. First of all, the quality of food can only be judged after consumption. In the process of food production and processing, a large number of modern technologies are applied, which makes it increasingly unrealistic for consumers to make a reasonable judgment on the quality and safety level of food only by feeling or experience. Secondly, many information about food quality and safety quality, such as whether there are hormones in food, whether there are antibiotics, whether the residues of agricultural and veterinary drugs exceed the standard, etc., are beyond consumers' ability to understand. This shows that there is a serious asymmetry in the food market, consumers are always at a disadvantage, and it is difficult to make an accurate judgment on the safety of the selected food, which leads to the failure of the market mechanism, the phenomenon that inferior food drives out high quality, and finally leads to the disorder of the food market. Therefore, in order to maintain food safety and ensure life health, appropriate government supervision is very necessary.

2. The needs of public interests

Problem food is first of all harmful to people's health, which is related to people's vital interests, the quality of life of the whole people, and even the long-term plan of people's physique. The second is the impact on the healthy development of the food industry. The development of food industry depends on consumer demand, which depends on consumer confidence brought by quality and safety. All previous food safety incidents and even some false rumors about food safety have brought serious consequences such as reduced production and laid-off workers, and some even have a great impact on the whole industry, making it very difficult for the industry to recover. The third is the impact on the government's credibility and national image. Successive food safety incidents have greatly affected people's confidence in consumption, seriously impacted the social integrity and moral system, and even affected the credibility of the government. Some food safety incidents also involve overseas countries, which have a negative impact on the national image and foreign trade exports.

3. The need to resist malicious competition

At present, the competition in China's food industry is fierce. At the same time, although our people's requirements for quality of life are gradually improving, on the whole, they are very sensitive to price. Therefore, on the one hand, the food industry must improve the added value of products through deep processing, on the other hand, it has to maintain the low cost of products to gain competitive advantage. When consumers buy food, although they will shop around, they often compare the price rather than the quality. As for the safety of food, it is simply judged by the shelf life on the food packaging. This makes some unscrupulous manufacturers use inferior raw materials in the food production process, reduce the processing quality, and attract consumers at low prices, thus leading to market dislocation of survival of the fittest.

(B) the lack of government supervision

If we trace the source to the source, who should bear greater responsibility, producers, sellers, regulators, etc? There seems to be no definite answer. However, what we can understand is that every time a major food safety incident breaks out, almost only the producers are responsible for making amends, rectifying and being punished; The administrative departments in charge of quality inspection, industry and commerce are actually only responsible for surprise action, apology and determination. There may be a serious problem that power cannot be effectively "supervised". In a series of major food safety incidents that shocked China and foreign countries in the past, except for several responsible persons in the production and circulation fields, few responsible persons in the regulatory field were punished. In the wave after wave of major food incidents, the unpunished supervision department's spirit of "overnight surprise inspection", showing determination and summing up can easily be regarded as just a political show of power. Behind the show is the arrogance and insincerity of power.

1, yamen style, the regulatory authorities are above. Some regulatory authorities have developed the habit of "letting producers take samples for inspection" and "looking at samples in the office".

2. Local protection. Grass-roots supervisors sometimes meet with "greetings" from superior leaders and ask for "care" for individual food enterprises, and these enterprises are either local taxpayers or projects that a leader attracts investment, so they can't move easily.

3. Centralized surprise sampling and inventory, only for a while, treat the symptoms rather than the root cause. On major festivals, we often see the relevant government departments going deep into farmers' markets and supermarkets for inspection in the news, but it is difficult to find any trace at ordinary times, and even consumers have no way to complain. A gust of wind supervision in the form of political movement is difficult to achieve practical results. You know, we don't just need safe food on holidays. Therefore, only by establishing a long-term and normal working mechanism can we really tighten the food safety net and rebuild consumer confidence.

It is not difficult to punish food safety violations. The Food Safety Law, which came into effect in June 2009, stipulates that the fine can reach 10 times of the original price of the problem food, and serious problems may lead to the revocation of the business license. The law promulgated in September last year included the death penalty as a punishment, but even this failed to deter black-hearted manufacturers. From the formulation and implementation of the Food Safety Law to the establishment of the Food Safety Committee of the State Council, from the rectification of the dairy industry to various special rectification and sampling inspection, the supervision is not too great, and there are not many food safety legislation. However, the repeated exposure of safety incidents and frustrated consumer confidence show that reflection and rectification are still weak, and it is even more necessary to conduct a "comprehensive scan" and "comprehensive upgrade" of all links and systems in the food industry.

Fourth, learn from foreign experience: full-process monitoring plus huge compensation

Food safety concerns everyone's life and health, and it is also a global problem. In many countries in the world, food safety accidents often occur. For example, in Germany, carcinogenic dioxins were found in eggs, pork and chicken at the end of 20 10. As of 20 1 1 year1October 4, the epidemic of "poisonous cantaloupe" spread in the United States 19 states, killing 17 people and 84 people were infected. Comparatively speaking, these countries and regions have established a relatively complete food safety guarantee system "from the farm head to the dining table", but food safety accidents still occur from time to time, so it is a long way to go to eradicate food safety problems. Let's see what tricks are worth learning.

The first measure: strictly control the source-the regulatory tentacles extend to the place of origin.

Strict monitoring measures should be implemented from the source of food supply. Livestock for food, such as cattle, sheep and pigs, will be marked with identification labels, which will be tracked and monitored by the network computer system. Slaughterhouse should also keep the detailed information of these livestock and mark the source of the slaughtered livestock. Meat products should be listed with an "identity card" indicating their source and destination.

The second measure: pay attention to the circulation link-"build a file" for each food.

Information such as producers of agricultural products such as rice flour, fruits and vegetables, meat products and dairy products, location of farmland, pesticides and fertilizers used, times of use, harvest and sale dates should be recorded. Relevant departments collect this information, organize it into a database and open a web page, and assign an "ID card" number for each agricultural product for consumers to inquire. After agricultural products have "ID cards", the traceability management mode becomes easy to operate.

In Germany, the principles of food chain and traceability have been well implemented. For example, when consumers see eggs in the supermarket, there is a red number on each egg. For example: 2-DE-0356352, the first digit is used to indicate the feeding mode of laying hens, and "2" indicates the production of captive hens; DE indicates that the country of production is Germany; The number in the third part represents the number of the chicken farm, chicken container or chicken cage where the laying hens are located. Consumers can choose according to the information transmitted by red numbers.

If there is a food safety crisis, you can also quickly find the reason according to the code. At the end of 20 10/February, the German safety food management agency found the carcinogenic substance dioxin in some eggs, which caused great concern in Germany. By tracing the poisonous eggs, the relevant institutions quickly locked their focus on a feed raw material supplier in Schleswig-Kholshtein. This company provided fatty acids contaminated by industrial raw materials to feed production enterprises, which led to the excessive dioxin in its downstream industrial products. Subsequently, the German government quickly isolated 4,700 affected pig farms and poultry farms and forcibly slaughtered more than 8,000 chickens.

The third measure: food fraud should be severely punished.

In developed countries with relatively advanced food safety systems, food safety accidents also occur from time to time, and all countries have increased their punishment for this, many of which are worth learning from.

Germany: criminal proceedings plus huge compensation

At the end of 20 10, the chicken farm in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was found to be contaminated with dioxin, a carcinogen, for the first time. On October 6th, this year, the German police investigated the feed manufacturer "Harless and Yanqi" in Shihe. On the 7th, the German Ministry of Agriculture announced the temporary closure of more than 4,700 farms and banned the sale of meat and egg products produced by contaminated farms.

For the perpetrators of this dioxin incident, the German prosecutor filed a criminal lawsuit, while the damaged farm plans to file a civil compensation, which may be as high as 40 million to 60 million euros per week, which may completely bankrupt the perpetrators.

South Korea: Toxic food 10 is banned from business for 0 years, and a high fine is attached.

France: sell expired food and close immediately.

The fourth measure: food recall to build the final barrier

The recall system of problem food is a remedial measure after the defects in food quality are found, and it is the last barrier to prevent the problem food from flowing to the table.

For the recall of unqualified food, the German Food Safety Bureau and the Federal Consumers Association jointly set up a "Food Recall Committee" to be responsible for the recall of problematic food. In 2004, under the supervision of the "Food Recall Committee", Huntegel Company found that the pregnant and lying-in women's milk powder and baby soybean powder produced by the company contained "Enterobacter banqi", which threatened consumers' health, especially babies' health. After the incident, Huntegel recalled the products as quickly as possible, and paid the consumers compensation of10 million euros.

The fifth measure: improve the food safety law and protect it by law.

The United States accelerated the process of food safety legislation in 2009. Following the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2009, several revised Food Safety Enhancement Acts of 2009 were passed. No system is omnipotent, and the relatively advanced food safety management system in the United States still needs to be continuously improved. This year 1 month, US President Barack Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act, which ushered in a major change in the US food safety supervision system. This reform of the Obama administration is an adjustment of the American food safety system according to the changing reality. 100 for more than a year, the food safety system in the United States has been maturing with continuous improvement.

The food supervision systems in Britain and Germany have also accumulated and developed for decades or even hundreds of years. The Food Standards Agency (FSA), the UK food safety regulator, was established in 2000. Previously, Britain promulgated the Food Safety Law in 1990, which made detailed provisions on food quality and standards. The Food Safety Law was revised on the basis of the Food Law of 1984. Looking back, we can also find some laws related to food safety. The history of German food law can be traced back to 1879. Up to now, there are more than 200 laws and regulations on food safety in Germany, covering all aspects of raw material procurement, production and processing, transportation, storage and sales. It can be seen that developed countries have attached great importance to food safety for a long time, and the relevant laws and regulatory systems are constantly revised and improved with the times.

Five, some ideas and suggestions on rectifying China's food safety problems.

We should establish the ruling philosophy of "all for people, for people's health" and "prudent obligation" and truly treat consumers as gods. Protect the health of consumers and only allow the provision of safe food; Protect consumers from fraud and strictly prevent fraud; Protect consumers' right to know and provide consumers with realistic information. Specific ideas and suggestions are as follows:

1, improve legislation and food safety standards. In accordance with the requirements of the Food Safety Law on food safety supervision, a seamless supervision and management system is created, and a scientific, reasonable and well-defined complete legal responsibility system is formed, which provides a strong institutional guarantee for investigating food safety responsibility and compensating victims of food safety problems. It is necessary to improve the standard system as soon as possible, comprehensively clean up and integrate the existing quality and safety standards, food hygiene standards, food quality standards and industry standards for edible agricultural products, and speed up the resolution of the lack, duplication and contradictions of standards. If it is difficult to introduce national standards for a while, it is necessary to first formulate local standards or normative requirements for product safety, production technology and inspection methods, and encourage enterprises to formulate enterprise standards stricter than national and local standards to prevent regulatory gaps.

2. Strengthen administrative management. Through the integration of the supervision system, it is necessary to avoid regulatory gaps, improve regulatory efficiency and save regulatory resources, but also prevent overlapping functions and mutual constraints, so as to give full play to the effectiveness of the food safety supervision system. Strengthen the territorial responsibility of local governments, strengthen the leadership of food safety supervision, and overcome the interference of local protection on food safety supervision. Food safety must be regarded as an important task of local economic and social development, support regulatory authorities to correctly perform their duties, and create a good law enforcement environment; All regulatory authorities are required to fulfill their duties, cooperate closely, put their responsibilities in place and connect with each other to form a complete chain of supervision and accountability system. The food industry has a long industrial chain, many links and scattered supervision power, so it is necessary to form a joint force of supervision and improve the efficiency of supervision. We often say that the food safety problem is' Jiulong Water Control'. Why? This is an embarrassment of' hitchhiking' in economics. There are many food supervision departments, and every supervision link will think that if I don't manage it here, someone else will naturally manage it; On the other hand, if I spend a lot of manpower and material resources to manage, food safety will not go wrong and other departments will "hitchhike", so it is imperative to break this system of overlapping powers.

3. Extend and improve the supervision industry chain. Food quality supervision should cover the whole industrial chain. Implement the inspection and supervision of food quality and raw materials for making food in "the whole industrial chain" and "from the field to the dining table". It is necessary to clarify the scope of functions of various regulatory departments and the procedures of accountability in legislation. On this basis, we can consider establishing an inter-departmental food supervision agency to coordinate and manage food safety in all processes in order to put an end to the dilemma of mutual buck-passing. In particular, it is necessary to clearly define the dereliction of duty of the regulatory authorities. In the event of a major food safety accident, hell to pay, the relevant responsible person, will be punished. For example, in some western countries, in the event of a major food safety accident, the highest to the Minister of Health, the lowest to the person in charge of the relevant regulatory authorities must take the blame and resign.

4. In the complicated modern society, the government's ability is limited. Therefore, the intervention of social forces in food problem management should be welcomed and advocated by the government, and relevant system design should be made.

Faced with the impact of a wave of major food safety problems, it cannot be effectively solved. Many scholars believe that because food problems involve various interests and actors, a single assault on either side can not be effectively solved, but must have a comprehensive concept of "social governance", that is, in a modern society with diversified social interests and subjects, the government can only let enterprises, non-governmental organizations, communities and other subjects participate in governance and use legal, market, consultation and administrative means. Only in this way can the society be effectively governed. Therefore, the governance of food problems not only needs effective power restriction and legislative follow-up for producers, regulators, sellers and other subjects, but also needs to introduce social forces to participate in the supervision and supervision of food safety. In contrast, the latter is in urgent need of development.

As far as food safety is concerned, we should pay attention to the role and independence of trade associations in formulating industry standards and standardizing industry self-discipline, but the role that trade associations can play at present is relatively limited. In addition, we should pay special attention to the function of the media in food safety supervision. The media can cooperate with food safety research institutions in colleges and universities to release food safety-related information from authoritative research institutions in a timely manner, thus forming regulatory pressure on the regulatory authorities.

5. Increase the cost of food safety violations.

We must adhere to severe punishment for chaos, increase the cost of breaking the law, and increase the pain of offenders. The reason why producers dare to take risks is that the benefits of taking risks far outweigh the illegal costs. It is this economic benefit that makes producers give up moral rationality in the face of temptation. Therefore, the food safety law should also increase the cost of producing fake and shoddy food through punitive compensation, and use economic leverage to promote the transformation of producers from economic people to moral people. Specifically, the amount of compensation and the intensity of punishment can be increased. The existing 10 times compensation is obviously a controversial amount, because for ordinary consumers, the cost of their rights protection may exceed the amount of 10 times compensation, and the amount of one-time 10 times compensation may not hurt the bones and muscles of intentional producers.

6, the establishment of enterprise credit system

It is important that making money is the purpose of enterprise management, but the products produced by enterprises are oriented to the broad masses of people, and products that harm the health of the people cannot be produced because of selfish desires. Strengthening the internal management of enterprises and shaping an honest enterprise can prevent food safety from the source. The construction of good faith, in the final analysis, is the construction of legal system, honesty and credit, which is the imperial clause in civil law and the legalization of traditional virtues. In the future, we should regard the integrity construction of enterprises or operators as a basic and routine project, establish a quantitative assessment system and persevere, because this is a vital event. Only in this way, enterprises and businessmen will regard consumers as real gods and food safety will be guaranteed.

7. Reward the whistleblower according to the seizure situation, give full play to the supervision power of the masses, and let the unscrupulous rats cross the street and everyone shout and beat them, so as to purify the food market.

8. Strengthen the protection of manpower, equipment and funds of grass-roots supervision departments, decouple fines from the interests of departments, and strictly prohibit the return of fines or "sitting on the sidelines" in disguise. China's food safety law clearly stipulates that local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for food safety in their respective administrative areas. The vast majority of food safety problems occur at the grassroots level and are also solved at the grassroots level. Whether the local government has established a work responsibility system and the implementation of funds guarantee should be the focus of recent inspection and accountability.

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To enhance consumer confidence, the government must take concrete measures. "Zero tolerance" can't stay in words. If it is punished, he will be punished. What should be investigated can't go away. The illegal cost is far greater than the illegal income, which can form a "high-voltage line" and bring deterrence. Food safety is related to people's health and life safety, to healthy economic development and social stability, and to the image of the government and the country. Food safety has become an important aspect to measure people's quality of life, social management level and national legal system construction. Food safety is closely related to people's lives and property. Food is the first priority for the people, and food safety is the first priority. We believe that as long as the relevant departments strictly supervise, the market actively allocates resources, and enterprises operate in good faith, the food safety problem will eventually be solved. Let us hope that this day will come soon and we can all eat safe food.