The food safety standard gets deeply stuck in the seasaw battle Citizen's participation is accused of going through the motions

The food safety standard gets deeply stuck in the seasaw battle Citizen's participation is accused of going through the motions
The food safety standard gets deeply stuck in the seasaw battle Citizen's participation is accused of going through the motions
The national food safety standard " The seasaw battle " The national standard citizen's participation degree is pointed the procedure opaqueness more low; Participate in making experts to claim the national standard needs to consider national conditions and trade factor recently, the media explodes and was born in the national standard of fresh milk at the point of key " Turn over one in one night " ,Two critical indexes are revised. This standard was once queried " Fall back in 20 " . The national food safety standard concerns everybody's life and health, how to make the standard, who will play a critical role on earth? The officers of Ministry of Public Health say, it is to " compromise " each other that the national standard is made Course,its bottom line is last " it is safe " " . To the query of the public opinion, the officers of Ministry of Public Health say, the subject problem is not the public's care of a certain national standard, but the distrust of the whole food security. Make the food safety standard in the course opaque etc. to query, Ministry of Public Health says that will take measures to accomplish openly, just, transparently. "If enterprise's participation means kidnapping, such words is too inmature. " On November 30, in a meeting room of Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Public Health supervises the food Zhang XuDong, division chief of of safety standard of the office responding the dairy products standard and talking while kidnapping by enterprises. Two days ago, the 79 -year-old western milk industry's association of report of " People's Daily " carried out Deputy Chairman Wei RongLu, been taking to heart for a meeting two years ago all the time: Key index in the consensus raw fresh milk food security national standard what reason he does not know to let, the subverting change happens while releasing finally. Report one, attract the public opinion to pay close attention to immediately. This kind of query to the food safety standard is not the first time. Since June of 2010, the national standard of the food security has been repeatly queried to " reduce " , " enterprises kidnap " With " black case work " . Query the range includes a plurality of respects such as dairy products national standard, quick-frozen food standard, food additive standard. It is reported, since " gather cyanogen amine three times " After the incident, the food security encounters the trust crisis. The officers of Ministry of Public Health say, the present main problem is that consumers lose confidence to the new national standard. As to this, Ministry of Public Health will take measures, will invite consumers to participate in the national standard and make, and increase the announcement method and solicit the social opinion extensively. The raw fresh milk standard " Compromise " In 2009, at a a dozen small discussions which experts participates in that Ministry of Public Health organizes, the opinions of reaching an agreement of the key index in the paired fresh milk food security national standard of experts: Colony of per gram of raw milk is not lower than 2.95 grams without exceeding 500,000, per hectogram of raw milk protein. After this draft sent for examination is submitted for half a year, the national food safety standard of raw fresh milk released formally in March of 2010, these two key data in raw fresh milk turn into separately " 2 million and 2.8 grams " . "Change of subverting this. " On November 29, Wei RongLu says, this protein index, even lower than 2.95 grams of standards fixed in 1986. Many of the intersection of Ministry of Public Health and the intersection of food and safety standard examine judging panel person the intersection of meeting and expert say raw fresh milk result compromised to coordinate in national standard. And the Ministry of Agriculture plays a decisive role in the formulation of this standard. On December 4, participate in the expert that this national standard is made to reveal, while clearing up the dairy products standard at that time, launch the fierce discussion in making the safety standard of raw fresh milk. Because what the food safety standard stipulates is the products that consumers can buy, guarantee the edible security. But raw fresh milk raw materials, will circulate get ordinary consumer at the hand (raw fresh milk mean, draw, undergo milk of treatment any just) . However, the Ministry of Agriculture insists, should include the raw fresh milk inside the quality standard system of the food security, "this considers the food safety standard is mandatory and strong, help to supervise. " The above-mentioned expert says. Internal expert remembers, the department can not dispute with the departments, there must be compromise of one party finally. "The dairy products standard has already been made for two and a half years at that time, if one party was uncompromising, the standard system of a whole set of dairy products can not come out. " The above-mentioned expert claims, " 2.8 " selected in the standard for use finally That is the Ministry of Agriculture puts forward. On November 30, Zhang XuDong says frankly, when the raw fresh milk standard was made, there were more they and the discussion of Ministry of Agriculture. Zhang XuDong says, " 2.8 grams " Pass " Consult " ," weigh from side to side " Result,it is in that adopt for agricultural sector the trades of offering basic data. Participate in making the standard expert to say, after this standard of Ministry of Public Health comes out, are equal to playing the ball to the Ministry of Agriculture. Total number of the colony of raw fresh milk and protein content only concerns quality, and have nothing to do with food security, choose " 2.8 grams " Security minimum behind,quality criteria of lasting formulation related departments. For example food quality needs to increase and grade, the expert first grade second,etc.. But the food safety standard can't be graded, first grade and the second must be all safe equally. "The national standard is a safe bottom line, we encourage enterprises to make higher standard. " Zhang XuDong says. " national conditions " The security standard under " is said ' compromises ' everybody does not certainly like listening to, so high an expectation of the society, will scold you very much. " In the last ten days of November, one has participated in the expert who is made work of the standard and said many times. Reveal, make the national standard time of food security, besides guaranteeing security according to it, also consider the economy, international trade, society accept factors such as intensity, religion, culture, history,etc.. Simple the intersection of speech and it, take because " the national conditions " And " compromise " . The expert that the participation standard that the reporter interviews is made thinks, " the standard comes out not to destroy an industry " . According to the data that the Ministry of Agriculture offer, if the standard brings protein index up to 2.95 grams, have some milk destroy, the influence safe milk. "The agricultural destiny of milk is what we must consider too. " Zhang XuDong says. It is reported, made for 2.95 periods of standard time in 1986, basically all state farms. And 76% of the private investors of Chinese milk industry cultivate at present. The cow growing condition that the private investor cultivates is more abominable. In addition, rise with prices of agricultural product such as wheat bran, corn, concentrated feed,etc., milk is agricultural will not lose money and raise oxen. The king of Deputy Director of China agriculture institute veterinarian of animal husbandry of Beijing research center adds and opens saying while interviewing by media, it is not enough to influence the albumen content of milk that the concentrated feed is put into, but average protein content of raw fresh milk is even lower than in 1986 now. Almost all the experts think, if the standard influences the food supply, this is not original intention of making standard. One make the standard expert claims, when the country purchases the grain, destroy the grain not up to standard after purchasing for example. And involve the safety standard of the grain, the index Concern at last country staple food supply safe. " this is a view of any national government in the world too, talk about safely again in a situation that the ones that have are eaten " . This expert says, " yellow aspergillus toxin B1 " It is a more obvious example. The grain goes mouldy and produces this kind of mould, the hepatitis patient is attacked by this kind of toxin, the probability of suffering from hepatocarcinoma will increase. "This is toxin sentenced to death too, but the international food code committee will also allow to have a certain amounts in the grain, why is not zero? " On November 23, an expert of evaluation committee of food security say, " if reach zero definitely, how much grain is lost then? Let a lot of people go hungry? " The expert claims, in the fifties of last century, Polish government determined yellow aspergillus toxin in the peanut as " not having detection " for example ,Several years ago, Poles had not almost known what taste peanuts were. How many hepatocarcinoma patients international code committee makes risk assessment, change of the standard, reduced, how much grain,etc. want the pin to destroy. According to the measurement in many ways, provide " yellow aspergillus toxin B1 " finally Guidance limit magnitude. And various countries, at formulation that toxin put a limit on quantity this, have high to have low too. "The health is needed and born, it is not 100% that are free from risk. " The expert that this requirement is anonymous says, consumers certainly hope it is the tighter well, "but just as lowering the room rate, the expectation of ordinary people and endurance of the country are always discriminating. " The authoritative expert in the above-mentioned evaluation committee says, such factors as national conditions, food are supplied that exactly consider, the national standard is confirmed by carrying on risk assessment in government, administrative department finally. It is " very fiercely noisy each time " The safety standard of dairy products is made, different from making the biggest other standards: A coordination team composed of over ten units is independent of expert panel. This leader of coordination team is a Vice Minister of Ministry of Public Health, the intersection of coordination team and member include Ministry of Agriculture, the intersection of national standard and committee, the intersection of worker and the intersection of letter department, General Administration for Industry and Commerce, Quality Testing Bureau,etc. and more than ten units. "Person in charge of coordination team, is mainly a leader of the administrative department. " On November 30, participate in making the standard expert to reveal, coordinate more than 70 experts that the group recommends and establish the expert panel. Zhang XuDong said, before the food safety law was issued, the Ministry of Agriculture, engineering letter portion, quality testing department had a relevant dairy products regulation, it needs to abrogate the old regulation to make the new standard, so establish and coordinate the group. And according to " safety standard management of national food ", the most authoritative organization of national standard of the food security was organized and set up by Ministry of Public Health " The meeting of persons who examine the judging panel of safety standard of food " . On November 30, Zhang XuDong says, persons who examine the judging panels all come from the universities and colleges, scientific research institution, there is no enterprise to participate in. It examines judging panels person to be will top to examine, it comments organizations to be the intersection of director and committee, it form, reflect administration and the intersection of technology and double color. The participant is the highest with the rank of Chen Zhu, minister of Ministry of Public Health, he is General Board of the meeting of persons who examine the judging panel too, in addition the Vice Chairman is that the old whistle of Vice Minister of Ministry of Public Health is great separately, Chen XiaoHua, Vice Minister of Ministry of Agriculture. Other participants also include China's disease accuses of director, meeting general secretaries, Deputy Secretary-generals of persons who examine the judging panel in the centre and waits for someone besides three academicians, they are all the officers of all ministries and commissions. Food safety standard examine by secretariat tentatively at first, and then refer to, examine judging panel person, will divide into committee member's joint hearing and comment, refer to General Board's joint hearing and comment finally. "To put it briefly, the persons who examine the judging panel will offer technical support for food safety standard to will assign to the committee, director's committee is that the administration checks on. " Administrative the intersection of power and decision of can influence divide into committee tooing sometimes. Some persons who examine the judging panel meeting experts complain, sometimes, the department leader will discuss to participate in assigning the committee, have no idea to totally examine and comment the standard independently basing on science. The persons who examine the judging panel will have 10 committees in all more than 300 famous committee members, such respects as including pollutant, additive, animal remedy remain in meeting. The meeting expert of a person who examines the judging panel describes, one point of committees will have a meeting each time, it is " very fiercely noisy " ,The ones present are all famous experts in the industry, even assign the committee and know what General Board said, have different opinions to say. For example a certain pollutant in the crops discussed warmly recently, should cancel or keep, can assign the committee General Board's trial is put forward and can keep temporarily, but other experts nearly think at the discussion unanimously that should cancel. Finally, assigning to the committee will reach an agreement, should cancel this material in the new standard. But there are special circumstances. Whether be cancelling brightening agent of flour - -While crossing and oxidizing benzene formyl and serving as food additive, the expert all " noisy broken head " ,Someone thinks, it is safe and reliable that brightening agent is added in the flour, evidence does not prove brightening agent influences the health, but another group of experts holds the adverse opinion. It is too fierce to dispute, can only vote and solve finally, more than 2/3 of expert approves of and cancels. The intersection of factor and the intersection of honour and emolument Wei of enterprise participate in three dairy products safety standard discussions, when he remembers it the first time, " enterprise's representatives of several pieces of foreign milk sit there " ,Make him " very uncomfortable " . The change of the standard key data of dairy products, is queried for " kidnapped by enterprises " by many experts too . "By the look of procedure, this is impossible. " In the small reporter of once who Ministry of Public Health holds on November 30 meets, researcher Guo YunChang say for nutrition and food security of Center for Disease Prevention and Control of China. On the same day, Ministry of Public Health supervises the food Zhang XuDong, division chief of of safety standard of the office saying, propose the expert of the objection this time, has really put forward different suggestions while making dairy products national standard, but these opinions, is not adopted finally, " they are not committee members of the evaluation committee, can't represent the other committee members of other seminars either " . Ministry of Public Health has offered one " The list of the members of expert panel of safety standard job of the quality of dairy products " ,Including 3 people in the centre of sanitary control of Ministry of Public Health, China's disease accuses of 16, staff member of centre, 5 scholars such as the universities of China Agricultural University, Peking University, Sichuan, 9 enterprise representatives of dairy products such as three yuan, is covered with the officials of ox, Erie, brightness, Abbott Laboratories, American Zambia, can reachesing, lake South Asia China. The statement of Ministry of Public Health is, these enterprise representatives are mostly recommended by an employer's organization, the ones that were recommended are mostly big enterprises. Meeting experts of persons who examine the judging panel reveal, must consider the current situation of the trade in standard, the big enterprise is often considered to be the direction of trade development. So, some standards will think by mistake favorable to the big enterprise. And in fact, the big enterprises do not all hope the standard is reduced. An expert remembers, at a microbial and standard seminar about food, the expert thinks that can cancel The detection of a certain microorganism, but enterprises object to collectively. They think it is very different for trade to develop, cancel, measure, may lead to the fact unable to supervise, influence consumer's trust to the whole trade products finally. However, enterprises really " establish unprincipled connection " with the expert . Examine each by discovery on judging panel meeting expert? 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According to an original public relationship officer of large-scale milk enterprise, the public relation department of big enterprise is directed primarily to two kinds of persons, first, media's reporter, another part is directed against government and expert. There are a lot of ways to communicate, enterprises will invite the expert to participate in the forum, still ask experts to assess etc. new technological demonstration. As to the statement that enterprises support for the food safety standard, Zhang XuDong denies. He says, all food safety standards are made and revised, is all allocated funds fully by the finance. " it is impossible to take money from special interests " . "We require the committee member, in order to guarantee to examine and comment working fairness, can't hold a part-time job in the operating unit of food production, or is engaged in having activity of the interests conflict. " Zhang XuDong says. The contact to that enterprises and the expert are privately, Zhang XuDong thinks, make and follow the principle of consensus in standard, if assigning the committee finally, can make policy with the council of chairmen, even if enterprise and a certain expert have self-dealing, can not influence the standard to be made either. "We have not found experts yet at present and the problem exists between enterprises. " Zhang XuDong says, welcomes the public to discover the problems to the supervisory department of discipline inspection to report too. Citizen's participation is pointed " Go through the motions " But a fact that can't deny is, the authoritative expert acts on very big while the standard is made. According to insider, have already passed through discussion to cancel the standard with a limit on quantity of rare earth at the council of chairmen of meeting of the persons who examine the judging panel on December 2. That is to say, the pollutant in the tea is measured, it will be expected not to include the rare earth again. But after this standard finalizes a text, reconsider again. The reason among them is, there is academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences that writes to top leader, this letter is forward toed Ministry of Public Health, then will reconsider the standard to assign to the committee. For this reason, the expert panel also specially goes to the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences office to have an informal discussion with academician writing a letter, finally, the academicians agreed to assign the committee and know the opinion of the expert panel. As to the experts' enthusiasm, the public seems " cold " while making in the regular standard . At present, should solicit the opinion publicly through two months in safety standard of each food. In 2010 Ministry of Public Health will announce that makes and revises the plan in 202 standards. Announce this year that revises the plan in formulation of more than 100 standards, several items such as only new national standard of dairy products that but causes the public opinion to pay close attention to the fact during the course of soliciting the opinion, quick-freezing food of rice and flour, additive standard. If not the media reports, more food safety standards become " zero is responded " when solicit the opinion publicly in two months . , soliciting the opinion is being thought to be " go through the motions " by some people . "Just as make plane rocket, I can not put forward the suggestion either. " One examine judging panel person the intersection of meeting and expert think difference in profession makes one feel worlds apart, food professional attribute of safety standard cause a lot of ordinary people can't 100% participate in. Among them on adding preservatives in the rice, food additive standard was just announced, grain department and enterprise pay close attention to, and express and cancel and demand through the media, then cause the public opinion to rebound, the statement which Ministry of Public Health needs to carry on research too. Unless at but this, even if for professional personnel,either may not necessarily attention on net drafts complete. To the above-mentioned problem, Zhang XuDong reveals, Ministry of Public Health is planning to cooperate with consumers' association, while the food security is made, will invite consumers to participate in, will improve standard open, fairness and transparency. Plan to set up food safety standard and make the column in the official website of Ministry of Public Health too in the standard place, circulate rollingly and solicit the opinion. It is a bottom line to be safe " gather cyanogen amine incident three times " And then, paying close attention to the fact just as the powder keg may be triggered at any moment to food security such as the dairy products of the public. The raw fresh milk standard was queried in 2010 for the first time, later in one and a half years, a plurality of food security national standards met with the crisis of the public opinion. The staff members of information office of Ministry of Public Health are a bit helpless too. Nearly every 3 to 6 months, will deal with " crisis " about food safety standard together soon . Among them, Ministry of Public Health will communicate, not expert's presentation meeting to less than for four, five times while organizing relevant news briefing, media. The standard is too professional and lacks the open and clear procedure, is considered generally to be the public to the reason why the new national standard loses confidence one of. There are officers and say, " the present question is not consumer's care of a certain standard, but the distrust of the whole food security. " Before this, produce the rare earth content and exceed standard in tea such as Tie Guanyin. On December 2, this standard with a limit on quantity is agreed to cancel, officer of Ministry of Public Health is anxious and or will cause the crisis of a public opinion. But compromise simply in standard, what is the bottom line? As to this, the relevant persons in charge of Ministry of Public Health say, the security must be the first's. He says, a lot of people think that it is high to support the safety standard of Hong Kong food, but in this way the cost of food is high, ordinary people can not afford to bear. Food safety standard, guarantee the security is a bottom line. On November 29, Wei RongLu remembers at a discussion of the dairy products standard that he participates in, the host comes up and says: "Only discuss today that safe, does not discuss the health. " But Wei RongLu still insists, healthy and safe, should " do together " . Food security national metric system ( Repair) Book the flow diagram to set up: The related departments offer the suggestion of setting up to Ministry of Public Health. Any citizens, legal persons and other organizations can all propose setting up the suggestion in national standard of the food security. Ministry of Public Health organize and set up the intersection of food security and national standard examine the intersection of judging panel person and meeting ' Hereafter referred to as the meeting of persons who examine the judging panel) Set against a suggestion and carry on research, put forward to Ministry of Public Health and make the national metric system (repair) of the food security Advisory opinion of making a plan. Draft: Ministry of Public Health takes the form of calling for bid, trusting etc., chooses the unit with corresponding technological ability to undertake the national standard drafting of the food security according to qualifications. After the standard is drafted and finished, should solicit standard applying unit, scientific research universities and colleges, trade, enterprise, consumer, expert, supervision department,etc. in writing Opinions of various fields. Examine: Secretariat's first trial of meeting of the persons who examine the judging panel, solicit the opinion on the websites of Ministry of Public Health publicly through the standard of the first trial; Examine judging panel person the intersection of meeting and speciality divide committee's meeting into, examine, take the consensus way, in unable to be consensus cases, participate the meeting above (including 3/4) the 3/4 committee member Agree, the standard is passed and examined; The council of chairmen of meeting of the persons who examine the judging panel is reviewed. After approving, the secretariat reports to the centre of sanitary control of Ministry of Public Health. Sanction: The centre of sanitary control of Ministry of Public Health reports to Ministry of Public Health after verifying. Examine the standard passed, release in the form of announcement of Ministry of Public Health. (the source of the materials " national standard management of the food security ")


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