Strengthen children's food safety supervision and improve children's nutritional health

(Reporter Gu Yufei) Children are the future of the country and the hope of the nation

In the field of health, the outline proposes that the child health service system covering both urban and rural areas will be improved, the capacity of children’s medical care services will be significantly enhanced, and the health level of children will continue to improve; popularize children’s healthy lifestyles and improve the health literacy of children and their caregivers; promote urban and rural early childhood development services supply and popularize the knowledge, methods and skills of early childhood development; control the rate of anemia and growth retardation in children under 5 years old to below 10% and 5% respectively, and effectively control the rising trend of children's overweight and obesity; Students' physical health standards meet the standard excellent and good rate of more than 60% and other goals

In the field of safety, the outline lists the effective protection of children's food safety as the main goal, and proposes to strengthen the supervision of children's food safety, improve the children's food safety standard system; Product sampling inspection and monitoring and penalties for unqualified food; implement the main responsibility for food safety management in schools, kindergartens, and nurseries, eliminate food safety hazards in children's group meals, and strengthen food safety supervision in schools and surrounding areas; seriously investigate and deal with food safety violations, etc.

"Improve the level of children's welfare, and basically build a moderately inclusive child welfare system that is compatible with the level of economic and social development; consolidate and improve the level of basic medical security to protect children's basic medical rights and interests; build a continuous and complete support system for children's nutrition improvement projects.

In the field of environment, the outline proposes to reduce the harm caused by environmental pollution to children, and the penetration rate of tap water in rural areas will reach 90%; to improve children's awareness of ecological environmental protection, to help develop green and low-carbon living habits, and other goals, and to optimize the natural environment and human settlements for children to grow healthily Environment, control and control air, water, soil and other environmental pollution as well as industrial, domestic and rural non-point source pollution, strengthen water source protection and water quality monitoring; strengthen lead and other heavy metal pollution prevention and monitoring; promote the standardization of urban drinking water sources; implement rural Water supply guarantee project, improve the rural centralized water supply rate, tap water penetration rate, water quality compliance rate and water supply guarantee rate,

In the field of legal protection, the outline lists 10 main goals to protect children's rights and interests, and reiterates the protection of children's food safety from the perspective of law enforcement

"China Food News" (September 29, 2021 01 edition)

(Editor-in-charge: Gu Yufei)