Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 11th Topic: Ensuring food safety during the flood season is deployed by the General Administration of Market Supervision to strengthen hidden danger investigation and market monitoring
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Wenjun
The State Administration for Market Regulation recently issued a notice on doing a good job in food safety work during the flood season. At present, the market supervision departments in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and other places are conducting risk investigations on food production and operation enterprises in the affected areas to effectively eliminate hidden risks.
The Beijing Market Supervision Bureau organized the market supervision departments in Mentougou, Fangshan, and Changping to conduct food safety risk investigations on 1,260 companies, including 102 food production companies, 871 catering service companies, 274 food distribution companies, and 13 farmers’ markets. The city’s professional food safety inspection team provides guidance and assistance to disaster-stricken enterprises and helps them resume production and market.
The Hebei Provincial Market Supervision Bureau organized market supervision departments in Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Langfang and other places to carry out special inspections on food safety during the flood season. A total of 1,432 food production enterprises, 16,684 food sales enterprises, 135 temporary meal sites, and 256 mass resettlement sites were inspected. At the same time, 200 batches of food were randomly allocated, donated, and sold to the disaster area, and food produced and sold by enterprises in the disaster area. So far, no food-borne diseases have occurred in the disaster-stricken areas, and no illegal activities of producing and selling moldy and spoiled food have been found.
The Tianjin Municipal Market Supervision Committee supervised and guided the food supply units to complete a total of 3,846 disaster-stricken people and nearly 100,000 flood prevention and relief personnel to ensure safe meals, and organized 4 catering companies, 1 food production company, and 8 school cafeterias involved in food supply. 1, a special inspection was carried out in the cafeteria of an elderly care institution, and no violations of laws and regulations were found. At the same time, actively guide and help 390 disaster-stricken enterprises in flood storage and detention areas to resume work and production.
According to the requirements of the notice, market supervision departments in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and other places have stepped up supervision and inspection of key foods and key places, urged food producers and operators to take effective measures to prevent food contamination, and resolutely prevent contaminated food and unqualified food from entering the market .
Baoding City, Hebei Province requires disaster-stricken enterprises to do a good job in food raw material cleaning, environmental cleaning, equipment maintenance, and utensil disinfection, so as to ensure that they meet the requirements of food production and operation before they can resume production and operation. 1 and 7 in Zhuozhou) did not produce and sell spoiled, moldy, insect-infested, flood-soaked, or packaged damaged food.
Beijing set up 16 resettlement sites for disaster-stricken people, providing meals for 5,150 people every day; Tianjin opened 14 resettlement sites, and resettled a total of 3,846 people. The market supervision departments of the two places implement on-site supervision of the resettlement sites, strictly prohibiting mildewed, expired, unknown sources, soaked in rainwater, or other unqualified food from entering the resettlement sites; Catering units should do a good job in cleaning and disinfection of tableware, health management of employees, and environmental sanitation in the back kitchen, strictly implement various measures to prevent flies, insects and rodents, and require catering units to ensure the safety of food materials and keep food samples.
As of now, among the agricultural and sideline product wholesale markets affected by floods across the country, only two in Hebei (located in Baoding and Langfang) are temporarily closed, and the rest are operating normally.
The State Administration for Market Regulation has deployed market supervision departments in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Heilongjiang, and Jilin to strengthen market price inspections and monitoring, establish a daily price reporting system for important livelihood commodities, and connect with leading platform companies such as Taobao, Tmall, JD.com, and Pinduoduo to understand daily Price changes of important livelihood commodities.
The survey shows that the supply of key materials such as packaged drinking water, instant noodles, vegetables, rice noodles, oil, meat, eggs, and milk in flooded areas is relatively sufficient, and prices are generally stable. Affected by the flood disaster, the output of leafy vegetables has decreased and transportation is inconvenient, and the price has risen. However, the difference between the purchase and sale price of merchants is not much different from that before the flood. As of August 9, the prices of vegetables in Hebei Province have been stable and declining. Tomatoes and potatoes have dropped by 13.69% and 4.52% respectively compared with August 7.
In addition, the General Administration of Market Supervision issued timely food safety consumption tips during the flood season, reminding food producers, processors and consumers not to process, produce, or make food with grains or other food ingredients that have been submerged, soaked, or moldy and spoiled. Do not sell, buy, or eat prepackaged processed food that has been flooded or rainwater soaked. Do not directly drink surface water, rainwater, or flood without any treatment. Do not wash dishes and rinse food in flood water. Do not pick up floating objects in the flood waters, or animal carcasses or wild plants left after the flood washes the ground, including wild vegetables and wild fruits.
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[Responsible editor: Zhang Qiaosu]
2023-08-11 06:17:34
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