***: Accelerating the construction of inspection and technical equipment

Zhang Gaoli stressed at the first plenary session of the State Council Food Safety Committee that it is necessary to fully implement the Food Safety Law and step up the revision of supporting laws and regulations to improve food safety standards; to speed up the inspection and testing technology and equipment and informationization, and to modernize food safety. Level.

Zhang Gaoli, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council and director of the State Council Food Safety Committee, hosted the first plenary session of the Food Safety Commission and delivered a speech on the 11th. Wang Yang, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council and deputy director of the State Council Food Safety Committee attended the meeting and delivered speeches.

The meeting reviewed the "Working Rules of the State Council Food Safety Committee" and heard reports from the Office of the Food Safety Commission and its member units. The meeting held that since the beginning of this year, China's food safety situation has been generally stable, people's food safety has basically been guaranteed, and the reform of the food safety management system has been actively and steadily advancing. However, food safety problems occur from time to time, hidden risks remain, and there is still a large gap between the people's hopes and the situation facing food safety is still very serious.

Zhang Gaoli pointed out that China has entered a decisive stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and the people have higher requirements and expectations for food safety. The relationship between food safety and the well-being of millions of households and everyone's health, and insisting on people-oriented, we must focus on the masses and ensure food safety. We must profoundly understand the extreme importance of doing a good job of food safety under the new situation from a global and strategic perspective, clearly define our responsibilities, fulfill our duties, and earnestly ensure that food safety is a major issue for people's livelihood, development projects, and political tasks. An important criterion for the mass line. We must strike out and comprehensively govern, focus closely on key varieties and key areas that are closely related to the life of the people, strengthen the supervision of food safety law enforcement, conduct in-depth special rectification, and severely punish re-administration of illegal and criminal activities. It is necessary to grasp well the source of governance, strengthen the management of agricultural input products, and the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution, and firmly maintain the first pass of food safety. We must strengthen process control and establish a complete supervision system covering production, processing, and circulation, and strictly prevent every line of defense from “farmland to table”. It is necessary to enhance the overall quality of the industry, improve the industrial policies to help the superior and the inferior, and accelerate the scale, intensive, and standardization of the food industry, and adopt a fundamental solution to solve food safety problems.

Zhang Gaoli stressed that we must implement the "Food Safety Law" and pay close attention to the revision of supporting laws and regulations to improve food safety standards. We must earnestly strengthen the building of food safety supervision capabilities, accelerate the reform of local regulatory systems, strengthen the construction of supervision teams, improve the supervision network system, and strengthen the grass-roots forces; establish a stable mechanism for the growth of food safety investment, and incline to the grassroots and central and western regions; accelerate the inspection and detection technology Equipment and information construction, improve the level of food safety modernization.

Zhang Gaoli requested that the unified leadership of the food safety committee and the coordination role of the food safety office should be fully utilized to coordinately study and formulate food safety policies and measures, and establish a sound inter-departmental coordination and linkage mechanism. All departments should closely cooperate with each Other to jointly manage food safety. . To fully implement the responsibilities of all parties, local governments are “responsible for the rights of the local people,” and the supervisory department fulfills its duties. The company assumes the main responsibility of the main body. Consumers take the initiative to participate in and take responsibility for themselves, and accelerate the formation of a pattern of co-governance in the whole society, gathering food safety safeguards. A strong combination of efforts to win the trust of the people with the practical results of food safety.

Wang Yang fully affirmed the achievements made in food safety work. He pointed out that we must attach great importance to the role of the food safety committees and food safety agencies at all levels, focus on improving the supervision capabilities, conduct in-depth governance, promote corporate integrity and self-discipline, and mobilize all sectors of society to jointly safeguard food safety.

Members of the State Council Food Safety Committee and relevant department heads attended the meeting.