Industrial transformation accelerates innovation to promote food safety

From April 16 to 19, the International Conference on Food Safety and Health, sponsored by the Chinese Food Science and Technology Society and the International Food Science and Technology Alliance, was held in Beijing. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Wang Tiehan, Director-General of Food Safety of the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration, pointed out that from 2014 to 2018, the unqualified rate of sampling inspection of food safety supervision in China dropped from 5.3% to 2.4%, and the public's satisfaction with food safety was greatly improved.

With the theme of "Innovation Drives Food Safety and Health", the conference discussed the new problems facing the international food industry, accurately corresponded to the difficulties and focus of China's food safety and industrial health transformation, explored the innovative development path of China's food industry from high-speed development to high-quality development, and made further efforts to solve the problems of food safety and health in China and even in the world. Multi-scientific path.

The General Administration of Market Supervision and Administration, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, the General Administration of Customs, the Chinese Association of Science and Technology, the China Light Industry Federation, the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, and the Beijing Association of Science and Technology supported the conference. Many well-known domestic experts, including Chen Junshi and Sun Baoguo, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, are from representatives of seven international organizations and government agencies, including the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Council of Science, the International Food Science and Technology Alliance, the International Committee on Food Microbial Standards, the American Association of Official Analytical Chemists, and the European Organization for Food Hygiene Engineering and Design More than 100 authoritative international experts from 18 countries and regions attended the conference and delivered speeches. Meng Suhe, chairman of the Chinese Food Science and Technology Association, pointed out that the structural transformation of China's food industry is taking effect in the form of value enhancement under the joint promotion of health and safety objectives and "market hand". Many new food products and sales formats have developed rapidly into a large number of new economic sectors in the food industry. At the same time, the import risk of food safety increased after the opening of the National Gate. If we say that the stock problem in China's food safety needs to be solved one by one, the contradictions between safety and health risk assessment, regulation and standard improvement of innovative food brought about by the accelerated transformation of China's food industry will emerge in a large number in the way of problem superposition. As the world's most vibrant food producer and consumer, China is faced with the challenge of food safety and health, which is bound to be the biggest challenge of global difficulty coefficient.

Wang Tiehan pointed out that food is the material basis for human survival and development, and food safety is one of the key issues of global concern. No country can ensure food safety on its own. Food safety needs to be faced by governments, international organizations and the whole society in many ways. It needs to improve the preventive mechanism and build a platform for communication to form global co-governance. In recent years, following the principles of "prevention first, risk management, whole-process control and social co-governance", China's food safety regulatory authorities have continuously innovated their supervision methods and supervised the producers and operators to implement the main responsibilities of food safety. They have basically formed a food safety wind based on market access, process supervision, sample inspection and monitoring, and linked by early warning and communication. Risk prevention and control system. Gao Yanmin, director of the Consumer Goods Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as the administrative department of food safety, has always adhered to the principle of "safety first" and put food quality and safety as the key work to promote development and benefit people's livelihood. Continuously improve the means of detection, vigorously build traceability system, enhance the ability of food quality and safety assurance, through promoting the construction of food industry integrity system, urge enterprises to establish integrity concept, improve integrity management system, and implement the main responsibility of quality and safety. In the future, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will work with all departments to enhance the effective supply capacity and level of the food industry, better meet the people's demand for food consumption upgrading, to achieve more stable, more effective and sustainable development of China's food industry, with innovation as the driving force, enterprises as the main body, and the implementation of the "three foods" strategy as the starting point. The level of food quality and safety contributes positively.

Wang Zhe, inspector of Rural Science and Technology Department of Ministry of Science and Technology, said that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Science and Technology continued to strengthen its support for food safety innovation, carried out the Prediction Research on the Trend of Food Quality and Safety Development, formulated the 13th Five-Year Plan for Food Science and Technology Innovation, launched the Key Special Project of Modern Food Processing and Food Storage and Transportation, and deployed fresh food. Agricultural products, logistics environment adaptability and quality control mechanism research, cross-border food quality and quality control database, construction and innovative integrated development and other key projects related to food safety, support the innovation and development of food safety technology chain, support the rapid health and sustainable development of modern food industry with scientific and technological innovation.

Zhang Leishi, inspector of the Department of Food Safety Standards and Monitoring and Assessment of the National Health and Health Commission, said that food safety was a global issue. The Chinese government has always attached great importance to food safety and put forward the 13th Five-Year Plan for food safety and food safety strategy as an important part of the implementation of the healthy China strategy. Standard is the basic support and key factor of food safety. The State Health and Health Commission has gradually established and improved the most rigorous food safety standards system.