Actively promote the construction of third-party food safety testing agencies

Recently, it was learned from relevant parties of the 11th National People's Congress Standing Committee that relevant departments and units are accelerating the advancement of inspection and inspection resources and information sharing in accordance with the national food safety rectification work arrangement, and actively promote the construction of third-party technical institutions.

According to the requirements of the General Office of the National People's Congress Standing Committee and the General Office of the State Council, the State Council’s Food Safety Office, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Health, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and other 17 departments and units, exercised their responsibilities to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The inspection team's report on the inspection of the Implementation of the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China and the deliberations of the thirteenth session of the Eleventh National People's Congress Standing Committee carried out serious research and proposed measures to further strengthen and improve the work. Not long ago, the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress printed the report of the State Council’s Food Safety Committee Office, which was forwarded by the General Office of the State Council, on the implementation of the inspection report on the law enforcement of the food safety law of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and its opinions. The report was issued to the members of the Standing Committee.

The report of the Office of the State Council’s Food Safety Committee pointed out that over the years, all relevant departments have been attaching great importance to the construction of food safety inspection and testing capabilities, and the relevant agencies have developed rapidly. At present, there are nearly 7,000 technical institutions with food-related inspection capabilities in the country, most of which are affiliated to the departments of health, agriculture, quality inspection, food, food and drug supervision, and environmental protection. The total number of employees in the industry is 0.15 million. However, due to the separate construction of the relevant departments and their respective establishment of technical institutions, it also brought about problems such as decentralized resources, redundant construction, and low utilization rate; at the same time, there are still problems such as insufficient technical strength at the grass-roots level and a large gap between the eastern and western regions.

The report shows that after the promulgation of the "Food Safety Law", relevant departments have intensified efforts to build and integrate food safety inspection and testing capabilities. The Food Safety Office will, in conjunction with the relevant departments, carefully study and overall plan the construction of food safety inspection and inspection capabilities during the preparation of the national food safety supervision and control system during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period. It will fully consider the current status of the organization, facilitate the development of the work, and make use of existing Under the premise of testing the role of testing agencies, efforts are made to strengthen resource integration, promote rational distribution, and avoid redundant construction. At the same time, all relevant departments will actively promote the research and development of food safety inspection technologies and the transformation of achievements, increase the application of new technologies such as rapid testing equipment, and focus on the reduction of technical resources, strengthen the strength of basic technology and equipment, and improve the ability of grassroots supervision.