Tough times for food safety offenders
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IN the past years, people’s understanding of food safety and the evaluation of food safety status in Shanghai has been rising.
Although there’s still room for authorities to improve, many residents have sound knowledge of food safety issues.
Residents said that their three top concerns are spoiled food, pesticide residue in vegetables and the sales of meat from livestock that died from disease, according to a survey conducted in 2015 by Shanghai Food and Drug Administration.
The public requires that the government tightens management in the areas of food production and processing, that it improves administration and enhances monitoring during planting and farming seasons.
The most effective measures are much stricter supervision and more severe punishment for violators.
Almost 95 percent of residents said they are concerned or very concerned about food safety, an increase of 4.5 percent from the previous year. People suggest the government should widely publicize the channels for whistleblowers and tipster to report food problems and reward them for their information.
Shanghai FDA said the government has stepped up inspections.
Compared to 2014, food watchdogs last year launched 26 campaigns and dealt with close to 9,000 cases, an increase of 6.4 percent. They fined 70.38 million yuan (US$10.83 million), an increase of 26.4 percent and revoked the licenses of a total of 6,571 companies. Under a tighter cooperation of industry administration and legal investigation, local police cracked 304 food safety cases, up more than 135 percent compared to 2014, while a total of 559 suspects were caught, an increase of 115 percent.
Violators of food safety standards typically acted in three major fields: the production and sale of fake, forged and counterfeit food, like repacking expired food for sale; the use of illegal food additives and abuse of food additives, for example putting poppy shells into hotpots and using chemicals; and the online sale of counterfeit products across borders, which has increased with the rise of the Internet, which also makes it harder to investigate cases and locate the perpetrators.
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