Mad cow disease makes Japanese agricultural products market more closed

Introduction: the influence of BSE on Japan is developing in depth In response to the panic of consumers, the Japanese government is preparing to improve the safety standards of all food and agricultural products Foreign food will be more difficult to enter the Japanese agricultural products market in the future, which can be said to be "a fire in the city gate, which will hurt the fish in the pond" A fourth case of BSE was found in Hokkaido on the 13th of this month The Hokkaido Food Hygiene Course said that the fourth mad cow was intended to be burned, but at the strong request of Professor Pinchuan mori, an expert on mad cow disease, the course was banned for the first time The brain, beef and internal organs of cattle were used for research, hoping that Professor Pinchuan's research on mad cow disease would make a breakthrough The transmission route of mad cow disease has also been found out This cow is not fed with ordinary feed as its owner said, but drank milk powder made by feed factory in Gaoqi City, qunma County in 1996, which contains animal fat in the Netherlands, the same as the three mad cows found before The fourth case of mad cow disease has a great impact Once again, the Japanese "talk about the color change of cattle", and the sales of beef has declined significantly What's more, the Japanese "draw inferences from one instance" and start to doubt all the food, among which the most talked about is the pesticide residue of agricultural products According to the provisions of the food hygiene law of the Ministry of health, health and labor of Japan, a certain amount of pesticide residues are allowed in the food circulating in Japan If people absorb pesticide residues every day for a lifetime and are harmless to the body, then so many pesticide residues are allowed in the food According to this standard, Japan has set more than 8000 standards for 270 pesticides and more than 300 agricultural products Now, due to the influence of mad cow disease, the public thinks that this standard is not strict enough, the items are far from enough, and there are loopholes in quarantine On the 14th of this month, the food hygiene rules Review Committee of the Ministry of health, health and labor of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan proposed a "Declaration of reform" to comprehensively correct the food hygiene law and ensure food safety, which was submitted to the special committee of food safety assurance of the Liberal Democratic Party on the 15th The leader of food safety of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is far away from saying that "the whole party should give full play to the reform of food hygiene law" It seems that food safety has become the focus of Japan's attention According to media reports here, the following points of the "reform declaration" are worth noting: The purpose of the food hygiene law is to change from ensuring food hygiene to ensuring food safety It must clearly stipulate the responsibilities of the state and local governments in terms of food safety In terms of pesticide safety, all foods must be set up with safety standards, otherwise they are not allowed to eat This also includes natural additives that people have long been accustomed to First of all, 120 of them are inspected and found In order to deal with the large amount of imported food, we can use the system of private legal person and strengthen the food surveillance system The content of the "Declaration on reform" reflects the trend of food safety in Japan The scope of application of pesticide residue standard will be expanded from more than 300 kinds to all foods The quarantine system will be more strict, the food safety supervision system will be more systematic, and the state, local government and civil law people will be a Trinity If there is any problem in any link, they should bear legal responsibility The most striking measure is that as long as the Japanese government determines that a country is a country with excessive agricultural residues, it can stop importing food from that country without inspection Under such a strict system, how many foreign agricultural products are qualified? Half a month ago, when Japan's minister of agriculture and water, Takemitsu, visited Europe, the director general of the world trade organization, Moore, and some government officials urged Japan to open up its agricultural products market, and Takemitsu raised food safety issues in response After the fourth case of BSE, Japan's agricultural products market will be more closed.