How Does Food Safety Supervision Work?

Change “does not work” to “have a role”, and then realize science, and realize and maintain “advantage confrontation” in the “dynamic confrontation” between regulators and offenders, so as to truly protect food safety. Recently, the Ministry of Public Security unifiedly directed Zhejiang and Shandong. The public security authorities in Henan and other places took four months to successfully crack down on the use of cooking oil for the sale of cooking oil, and seized more than 100 tons of edible oil contaminated with trench oil.

Although the “legend” of the waste oil industry has been long, when the public security authorities destroyed their underground industrial chain, it was still shocking: Inter-provincial acquisitions, production of tens of tons per day, sales to the grain and oil market... Fortunately, for an illegal industry When the chain is cut off, people are still full of anxiety.

It should be said that the large-scale investigations conducted by the public security organs have played a significant role in quickly identifying problems and ensuring food safety, and have also seen the efforts and determination of food safety in China at home and abroad. However, after food safety incidents have repeatedly occurred, the production and sales of cooking oil from waste oil have become industrialized and scaled up.

At present, China has established a food safety supervision and management system. The Food Safety Law has also defined in principle the functions of various departments such as health supervision, food safety, business administration, and quality supervision, and has formed various functions for supervisory departments. Responsibility and unified coordination of the regulatory structure, which provides a basic institutional guarantee for food safety, but also to a certain extent, play a role in food safety barriers.

At the same time, it is undeniable that due to the difficulty and high cost of food safety management and even the consideration of the involvement of departments and private interests, the supervision of food safety issues by various departments has gradually changed from “everybody” to “everything”. ". At the same time, in the event of a food safety incident, the function of certain functional departments is to use their own management authority as a shield. This multi-headed management pattern of food safety has led to the separation of powers and responsibilities of the relevant departments, and the resulting weak supervision has also provided unscrupulous traders with the “black industry” expansion space.

In this sense, the design of the system is of course important, but it is more important to have "responsibility" and "proactiveness." It can be said that the Ministry of Public Security's cracking down on the oil cases in accordance with the law embodies this "as a spirit" and has been welcomed by the people. It has also greatly shocked food safety crimes. Because of this, we have reason to ask: When illegal oil vendors have illegally engaged in the production and sale of waste oil for many years from the small workshops to the “upgrades” of large factories, they strictly observe the “production link supervision” and “circulation link supervision” on weekdays. Where are the various functional departments?

If the administrative supervision fails or is missing, the promise of food safety is empty talk. The occurrence of waste oil cases once again sounded the alarm for food safety and it was particularly important to strengthen the control of food supervision. For our administrative supervisory departments, not only is it necessary to change the previous "non-action" but also to achieve scientific action on the basis of "having a role" and realize it in the "dynamic confrontation" between regulators and offenders. To maintain "advantage confrontation," even if the "magic is high," we must also "higher."