Food securityIt's about people's lives, food securityNational standardsIt is the legal basis for ensuring the health of the nation, regulating the management of production and the quality development of the enabling industries. Our country has established a national system of standards for food safety, centred on risk assessment and aligned with international standards, which plays an irreplaceable role in safeguarding national health, promoting trade and creating the world's largest food industry。
However, as the pace of scientific and technological innovation in the food sector accelerates, the current mechanism of revision of the national standard system of food safety has also revealed a number of problems in terms of adaptability, openness and synergy, most notably the lack of clear identification and institutionalized support for the participation of companies, the subject of standards implementation。
In response, lu qiang, the representative of the national people's congress and chairman of the morning biotech group, inc., felt deeply that the criteria had been based on practical experience since their inception, that during the revision process of the national standards for food safety, it was easy for the duty-bearers to ignore the position of the enterprise as a subject, and that business experts, even if able to participate, could not be treated with caution and even restraint; and that the commission's industry had a low level, with standards focused on theoretical validation, and had a real mismatch with production。
“in addition to the lack of transparency in seeking advice and the absence of a closed loop of feedback, the new standards make it difficult to induce innovation, inverse to higher compliance costs, undermining international competitiveness, hindering the healthy development of the industry and constraining the country's overall leap from a large food-producing country to a strong food-safety and standard country.” in the view of lu qiang, breaking down the hardship situation requires optimizing the co-management patterns of the relevant subjects of government, business and social standards。
First, to clarify the position of the enterprise in the standardized revision process and to guarantee effective participation from the outset。
The lu qing state proposes to strengthen the role of the executive branch by including a chapter on enterprise participation in the national standard management for food safety and supporting documents, under the leadership of the national board of health and health。
Second, it optimizes the organizational structure for drafting and evaluating projects. For example, a model of coordinated drafting has been introduced to form joint working groups of industry associations, scientific research institutions, representative enterprises and regulatory bodies at the national level, in a manner that is compatible with the wisdom of practice and does not depart from the application of the criteria; and to optimize the composition of the review committees by creating additional seats for industry experts to ensure a fair representation of business representatives。
Thirdly, the transparency and effectiveness of the adoption process should be enhanced。
With regard to feedback from enterprises, lu qingxing suggested that the communication be included in a public consultation acceptance information note to enhance professionalism and transparency in the processing of opinions, thereby enhancing the scientific and applicability of standards。
Through the above-mentioned measures, the lu qing state hopes to strengthen the participation of enterprises, thereby raising the standard of science, applicability and impartiality, and to establish a scientifically rigorous and practically leading system of national standards of food safety, which will provide solid support for safeguarding the health of the population and promoting quality development in the food industry。
