Open Commitment Ceremony for Food Safety of Spicy Bar Industry in Pingjiang

On the evening of the 17th, "Open Commitment Ceremony for Food Safety of Pingjiang Hot Strip Industry was held on March 15 every day". The Food Industry Association of Pingjiang County and 116 Hot Strip Manufacturing Enterprises made a public commitment to the society: strengthen industry self-discipline, fulfill the main responsibility of food safety, and abide Battalion. It is reported that the county food industry association receives reports of illegal food production activities 24 hours a day from the public, with a maximum bonus of 50,000 yuan.

Pingjiang is the birthplace of hot strip. The number of hot strip enterprises founded and invested by Pingjiang people accounted for 96% of the same industry in China, with an annual output value of 50 billion yuan. There are 116 hot strip enterprises in the county, with an annual output value of nearly 20 billion yuan, and more than 150,000 people are employed. Hot strip industry is one of the four pillar industries in Pingjiang, which has made great contributions to the economic and social development of the county. In 2015, Pingjiang was awarded the national food industry strong county and "China's gluten food town" and other brand names, "Pingjiang gluten" was China's geographical indication certification trademark, hot strip industry gradually towards scale and brand.

This year, the CCTV Finance and Economics Channel 3.15 party exposed the irregular production of two hot strip enterprises in Pingjiang. The Pingjiang County Party Committee and the county government promptly initiated the emergency plan and conducted a comprehensive investigation on 432 food production enterprises and small workshops in the county. A total of 90 food production enterprises and small workshops were suspended and rectified, 80 were rectified within a time limit, one was detained criminally, and two production licenses were revoked. The County Discipline Inspection Commission held 10 persons accountable for filing cases with the competent authorities.

The head of the County Food Association said that the public commitment ceremony was held to strengthen industry self-discipline, strengthen technological innovation, improve product quality, accept social supervision, promote the healthy development of the industry, and make hot strips a healthy and reassuring food. At the ceremony, the implementation rules of food safety rewarding report of Pingjiang Food Industry Association were read out, and the reporting telephone 0730-6267808 was announced.