The State Administration of Market Supervision held a teleconference on the key work of national food safety supervision

According to the website of the State Administration of Market Supervision on January 24, the General Administration of Market Supervision held a teleconference to implement the spirit of the national market supervision work conference and make arrangements for the key work of food safety supervision in 2019. Sun Meijun, deputy director of the General Administration of Market Supervision, attended the meeting.

The meeting pointed out that food safety is related to the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security, and is related to the overall social stability. In 2018, market supervision departments at all levels focused on the general concerns of the people, adhered to the problem orientation, strictly adhered to the safety bottom line, and maintained the overall stability of the food safety situation, but there was a gap compared with the people's expectations for a better life, and the people still had some dissatisfaction. In 2019, food safety supervision work will be more arduous and arduous. Market supervision departments at all levels must further enhance their awareness of danger, strengthen bottom-line thinking, and take food safety as a major political task, and grasp it as the primary responsibility of market supervision. In accordance with General Secretary Xi Jinping's "four strictest" requirements on food safety, greater efforts should be made to solve outstanding problems in the field of food safety, and efforts should be made to prevent and resolve major risks, try to make the people worry less and feel more at ease.

The meeting stressed that food safety supervision is to be the most stringent. Market supervision departments at all levels should take institutional reform as an opportunity to improve their ability to prevent and resolve food safety risks. It is necessary to strengthen business integration, cooperation, and linkage between the upper and lower levels, and strive to form a work pattern of horizontal to the edge, vertical to the end, and joint management, and build a solid bottom line of safety. It is necessary to persist in taking the lead in strict words and severely punish chaos, and increase the intensity of punishment and increase the cost of breaking the law through huge penalties, combined punishment for several crimes, and joint punishment. It is necessary to improve the system and mechanism of risk classification and classification management, strengthen the innovation of supervision means, improve supervision efficiency and enhance the supervision ability at the grass-roots level. It is necessary to give full play to the role of social supervision and public opinion supervision, encourage internal insiders to report, encourage media reporters to provide clues to cases, and expose illegal enterprises. It is necessary to take campus food and health food as the top priority, pay attention to the food safety of large enterprises, bulk food, and small and micro entities, and focus on infant formula milk powder, catering service industry, and rural market to improve food quality and safety.

The meeting demanded that the local authorities for food safety bear the overall responsibility, and all localities should, in accordance with the requirements of the party and government, formulate a list of powers of food safety supervision in accordance with the law and regulations, be exempted from liability according to due diligence, and be held accountable according to orders for dereliction of duty. Regulatory departments at all levels must be loyal to their duties, have the courage to take responsibility, be honest in performing official duties, properly implement the responsibilities of daily inspection and supervision and sampling inspection, and urge enterprises to implement their main responsibilities to ensure food safety. We must unremittingly do a good job in the prevention and control of African swine fever. Strengthen the investigation of food safety risks in the festival market, and strive to let the people have a happy and peaceful Spring Festival.