"Food safety dandelion" opens up a new path of social co-governance

The 65-year-old Wang Youlong has been in a full schedule recently
.
He lives in Xinhe Community, Jiangpu Street, Pukou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, and is not only the head of the community, but also a member of
the community choir.
This year, the old man has a new identity - "Food An Dandelion" volunteer, an average weekly public welfare activity, Wang Youlong once
declined.

In 2020, the Pukou District Market Supervision Bureau took the lead in exploring a new path of "civilized practice + food safety" co-governance, and widely promoted cadres, professional institutions, teachers and students of colleges and universities, and enthusiastic people to form a new era civilized practice food safety volunteer service detachment, named "Food Safety Dandelion"
.
After more than two years of cultivation, this volunteer team has grown to more than 1,800 people, carried out more than 620 volunteer service activities, and organized more than 1,000 inspections
.
In September this year, the project won the fourth excellent case of social co-governance in the field of market supervision and the first excellent case
of social co-governance of food safety.

Food safety is related to the lives and health of the people, and is the most basic social governance and the most basic livelihood conditions
.
"Every 'dandelion' is a messenger of civilization and a guardian of safety
.
" Huang Wen, director of the Pukou District Market Supervision Bureau, said that public welfare activities mainly take volunteer service as the main form to guide more social forces to participate in science popularization, regular inspection and service for the people, so as to protect the food safety
of citizens.

"Civil Guards" are around

Located in Pukou District, which is at the junction of Jiangsu and Anhui, with strong population mobility and large rural area, how to weave the densest net and build the strongest wall? Pukou's choice is to combine the practice of civilization in the new era to form a volunteer team
with national participation, global coverage and full-dimensional service.

In accordance with the idea of institutionalized operation and standardized management, the Pukou District Market Supervision Bureau relies on the systematic, close and service-oriented practice of civilization in the new era to establish a food safety volunteer service detachment, with 10 brigades and multiple teams under it, forming a three-level volunteer service structure system
.
The volunteer team covers all district-level functional departments horizontally, vertically through districts, streets, villages (communities), and all volunteers not only have a "blue vest", but also share the same name - "Food An Dandelion"
.

Wang Youlong is the recruitment notice
seen in the community's new era civilization practice.
"The first time I signed up, I not only learned the knowledge myself, but also led the neighbors to learn
together.
" The elderly man is a warm-hearted man who spends most of his time volunteering after retirement
.
After becoming a "dandelion", as long as there are community activities, you can see his busy figure, at least once a week, at least 1 hour
each time.

From the first 116 people two years ago to more than 1,800 today, more and more "civil defenders" have found joy and value
in volunteering.

Unlike Wang Youlong, Chen Liyan, the manager of Baima Life Square, joined "Dandelion" more out of work considerations
.
As one of the commercial complexes that Pukou has focused on building in recent years, Baima Life Plaza is a "paradise"
for foodies.
Whether the back kitchen is separated from raw and cooked, whether the condiments are expired, whether the kitchen trash can is covered.
.
.
Every day, she and her colleagues carry a "yellow book" in hand and go door-to-door to check
the environmental hygiene and food safety of food and beverage outlets.
"Food safety is both a red line and a bottom line, and it must be foolproof
.
" She said that all members of the operation team applied for the "blue vest", and it is with high standards and high frequency of inspections that the square has maintained a record
of "zero complaints" in food safety so far.

"Professional players" authoritatively answer questions

This summer, Di Yuhan, a junior student at the College of Food Science and Technology of Nanjing Agricultural University, did not return to his hometown
in Qinhuangdao.
As the person in charge of the College Science Association, she and 15 classmates planned a science popularization tour of "New Style of Diet, Healthy New Life" in the Martyrs' Tower community
.

How to control the intake of 5 grams of salt per day, whether there is a scientific basis for food restraint, how to look at food labels, how to pick fresh vegetables.
.
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At the event, topics that residents were interested in and used triggered heated discussions
.
"Some residents have relatively little knowledge about food safety, but they can't understand the textbooks
.
" Di Yuhan said that for this tour, the team not only prepared PPT, but also specially made roll-up treasures, designed many interactive links, and the effect exceeded expectations
.

Food safety involves a wide range of fields and strong professionalism, and science popularization workers must not only have rich knowledge reserves, but also go deep and simple, and use down-to-earth language to answer questions
.
"Food Safety Dandelion" takes into account both scale effects and professional capabilities, and not only mobilizes the general public to the greatest extent, but also 15 food safety experts
from universities and scientific research institutions.
At this year's Food Safety Publicity Week, Pukou District signed a co-construction agreement with Nannong Food Science and Technology College to introduce university strength to empower the grassroots level
.

Professor Chen Xiaohong of Nannong is a member of the expert database of the Pukou District Market Supervision Bureau and a "dandelion"
.
"Older people lack the ability to discriminate, usually what they say online and what
they believe.
" She said that the important role of science popularization is to clarify fallacies, and when planning volunteer activities, she will determine the theme in advance, address the doubts that the masses may have, take students to design answers, bring more results in the laboratory to the grassroots community, and speak
with facts and figures.

"Food Dandelion" volunteers interact with children

The offline activities of "Food An Dandelion" are not limited to residential communities, and the form is not limited to knowledge and
science.
Pukou District innovatively designs five major projects: "food" truth, "food" responsibility, eye inspection as "food", "food" on the tip of the tongue, and "Pu food" Wuhua, making good use of various carrier spaces, planning activities that are popular with the masses and deeply participated by volunteers, and continuously expanding brand influence
.

Lu Fei, the person in charge of the Jiangpu Street Express Inspection Office, is not only a practitioner of food fast inspection, but also the "Teacher Lu"
in the mouths of residents.
She still remembers the recent open day of the fast examination room, which was originally planned to have only a 15-minute Q&A session, and finally she chatted for more than half an hour
.
Luphy recalled that the topic of the day was how to detect pesticide residues, and later when it came to the recent hot topic of additives, residents' excitement was aroused
.
There is not much difference between the ingredients of preparing soy sauce and brewing soy sauce, vitamin C tablets, salt have additives, and some foods that do not contain preservatives have to be careful.
.
.
These cold knowledge made the uncles and aunts listen with relish
.

"Digital Brain" technology empowerment

In the digital age, volunteering can be said to be everywhere
.

The Pukou District Market Supervision Bureau explored the establishment of an "Internet +" volunteer service model, and independently developed the "Food An Dandelion" WeChat mini program, which can be directly delivered
with one click of 8 functions such as registration and sign-in, online learning, activity release, and supervision "finding faults".
Breaking the limitations of time and space, volunteers can participate in food safety governance
anytime, anywhere.
For example, if volunteers find food safety risks in businesses in their daily lives, they can fill in the form submission platform in the food safety "find fault" module, and choose whether law enforcement personnel need to intervene, making supervision more three-dimensional
.

"The most popular is the system's commendation and incentive function
.
" The relevant person in charge introduced that the Pukou District Market Supervision Bureau introduced alliance merchants to give corresponding incentives and positive feedback to volunteers who have served for a certain period of time, and can enjoy discounts or exchange vouchers and other discounts with points, which not only makes volunteers work more energetically, but also strengthens the sense of responsibility of the main body of
the business.

How can volunteering be kept fresh and sustainable? Relying on the strength of major teams, the Pukou District Market Supervision Bureau integrates the resources of CFS members, continuously expands new scenarios, and guides the public to practice the CD-ROM action, use public spoons and chopsticks, and refuse to eat wild game and river fresh; Help the "Pushi Puwei" series of agricultural products expand the market; Cooperate with takeaway sites to guide takeaway brothers to collect food safety hazards in "walking the streets".
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Focusing on the main business, volunteer activities provide full-dimensional and full-chain services
for all kinds of subjects.

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is necessary to improve the social governance system of joint construction, co-governance and sharing, and clearly required strengthening food and drug safety supervision
.
"Food safety dandelion" not only mobilizes the most extensive governance forces, but also embeds it in the whole link
of food from production to circulation.
Huang Wen said that Pukou's food safety work will follow the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, further stimulate the attention of the whole society, continue to strengthen the professional construction of the volunteer team, advocate a new trend of civilized dining, thrift and faith, and protect the "safety on the tip of the tongue"
in the overall development.

(Chen Shiyou, Sheng Wenhu, Zhong Jing)

China Food News(December 13, 2022, Version 03)

(Responsible editor: Zhou Yan).