Hubei issued guidance on reform and improvement of food and drug regulatory system

Recently, Hubei provincial government issued the guiding opinions on the reform and improvement of the food and drug supervision and management system (hereinafter referred to as the Guiding Opinions) to clarify the main tasks of the reform of the food and drug supervision and management system in Hubei Province The guiding opinions pointed out that the construction of regulatory capacity should be strengthened On the basis of integrating the existing food and drug supervision forces of the original food and drug supervision, industry and commerce, quality supervision, health and other departments, the law enforcement agencies of food and drug supervision shall be established, among which, in principle, the law enforcement agencies shall not be established repeatedly in the city and the central urban area According to the needs of food and drug supervision and law enforcement, more professional and technical personnel are recruited to engage in food and drug safety supervision We will further improve technical support for risk monitoring, inspection and testing, and product traceability, strengthen the construction of information technology for food and drug safety, establish an information technology support platform, and gradually implement electronic supervision over the whole variety and process of food and drug Integrate technical resources According to the guidance, the city (prefecture) shall transfer the institutions, personnel, equipment and relevant funds of relevant departments related to food safety inspection and testing to the food and drug administration If conditions permit, cities (prefectures) shall integrate resources, establish comprehensive public inspection and testing centers, comprehensively integrate inspection and testing resources of relevant county (city, district) departments, establish comprehensive public inspection and testing centers, as the institutions directly under the government at the same level, promote the overall use of all kinds of inspection and testing personnel and equipment, manage inspection funds in a centralized way, and test construction projects in a unified way Plan and arrange the inspection tasks in a unified way to improve the overall level of inspection and detection Through policy guidance and government purchase of services and other ways, to ensure the needs of food and drug safety inspection and testing of agricultural products, and promote the development of third-party inspection and testing institutions Improve the grass-roots management system According to the guidance, the county level food and drug administration shall set up food and drug administration agencies in towns (streets) or regions, and the number of supervision and law enforcement personnel shall be allocated according to the population and regional area of the towns (streets), and the staffing shall be adjusted from the total amount of municipal and county administrative institutions and the total amount of administrative institutions of the relevant vertical administrative departments below the provincial level Transfer, no new staffing If it is set up according to towns (streets), the number of personnel shall be 4-6 for those with a population of less than 50000; if it is more than 50000, the number of personnel shall be 6-8; if it is set up according to regions, the number of personnel shall be 6-8 Food and drug supervision assistants shall be provided in rural administrative villages and urban communities to assist in law enforcement, hidden danger investigation, information reporting, publicity and guidance Village cadres and Community Grid administrators may be employed and certain work subsidies shall be given according to regulations We will work closely with the food and drug regulatory regulators and the regulatory and law enforcement teams to comprehensively promote grid based food and drug safety supervision at the grassroots level.