Xi leads calls for strict measures on food safety
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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping has underscored the need to implement the “strictest” measures to ensure food safety.
In an instruction issued yesterday, he noted the impact food safety had on people’s livelihoods and public confidence in the government.
The reputation of food safety in China is grave, Xi said, adding that there needs to be a more unified, authoritative supervision system as well as supporting regulations.
He said the strongest measures were needed, featuring rigorous standards, strict supervision, serious punishments and an authoritative accountability system.
In a separate instruction, Premier Li Keqiang pledged “zero tolerance” to food safety violations, promising timely and harsh punishment for guilty parties.
He urged government agencies to continue tackling the major issues related to food safety and to remember that the interests of the people were their top priority.
The food safety supervision system, Li said, should cover the whole food production process, “from farm to table.”
At a meeting of the State Council Food Safety Commission yesterday, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, who heads the commission, pledged resolute efforts to implement the requirements by the president and the premier, and to establish a food safety management system and improve supervision.
Zhang demanded more attention be given to excessive residues of pesticides and veterinary drugs, as well as to heavy metal pollution in soil and additives in foods.
Food enterprises must be held accountable, he added, and said a better system is needed to track safety risks and problems with key food products.
China’s food safety standards should suit both the country’s realistic situation and international criteria, which require heavy-handed measures to deter violations, Zhang said.
Calling food safety work a “sacred political duty” for the Party and the government, he called for better supervision to ensure the work is properly done, so those guilty of dereliction of duty are held accountable.
He also underlined food safety particularly during the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year holiday.
Vice Premier Wang Yang also attended yesterday’s meeting.
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