Continuous improvement of food safety standard system in China

On July 10, the national health and Family Planning Commission held a press conference to introduce China's food safety standards and related cleaning work Up to now, China has formulated and published 303 national food safety standards, including safety standards for dairy products, mycotoxins, residues of agricultural and veterinary drugs, use of food additives and nutritional enhancers, general principles of pre packaged food labels and nutritional labels, covering more than 6000 food safety indicators According to the introduction, at present, the construction of China's food safety standard system has achieved initial results The main progress is as follows: first, establish and improve the food safety standard management system, and publish and implement the national, local and enterprise standards for food safety record management measures A national food safety standard review committee is established, which is composed of 10 professional sub committees including food pollutants, microorganisms, food additives, pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues, and more than 350 authoritative experts in medicine, agriculture, food, nutrition, etc., and is responsible for the review of standards Second, formulate and publish the 12th Five Year Plan for national food safety standards and the work plan for cleaning up food standards, scientifically plan the construction of food safety standard system, key work and cleaning up tasks of current food standards, and guide the work of food safety standards during the 12th Five Year Plan The third is to establish a national food safety risk assessment center to carry out food safety risk assessment, so as to provide scientific basis for formulating and improving standards Fourth, formulate and publish national food safety standards Up to now, 303 national food safety standards have been formulated and published, covering more than 6000 food safety indicators Fifth, carry out standard publicity, interpretation and follow-up evaluation Sixth, actively carry out international exchanges on food standards China has been the host country of Codex Alimentarius Commission and Codex Alimentarius Commission for seven consecutive years In 2011, China was elected and reappointed as the Executive Committee of Codex Alimentarius Commission in Asia Through these favorable conditions, strengthen the follow-up study of international food standards, and promote the synchronous development of China's food standards and international standards It is also understood that since the promulgation and implementation of the food safety law, China has completed the cleaning and integration of dairy standards, cleaned up food pollutants, mycotoxins, food additives, food labels and other standards, and published a series of basic food safety standards In 2012, the main tasks proposed in the work plan for cleaning up food standards are: to comprehensively clean up nearly 5000 existing quality and safety standards, food hygiene standards, food quality standards and relevant industry standards of edible agricultural products, put forward cleaning opinions, and form a framework of food standard system On the basis of standards clearing, standards integration will be completed by the end of 2015 to solve the problems of standards crossing, repetition and contradiction In order to do a good job in standard cleaning, the national health and Family Planning Commission has set up a leading group and an expert technical group for food standard cleaning The expert technology group is composed of more than 140 authoritative experts from agriculture, quality inspection, health, business and other relevant departments, scientific research institutions and industry associations It is divided into eight groups to carry out work, including food product group, physical and chemical inspection method group, microbial inspection method group, toxicology evaluation procedure group, etc At present, the expert technical group has held 43 standard cleaning meetings, completed the cleaning tasks of food toxicology evaluation procedures and special dietary food standards, and will open to the public for comments in the near future.