State Council Food Safety Office: Increase daily supervision for infant and toddler food, disaster relief food, etc.

Recently, the State Council Food Safety Office issued a notice requiring local food safety offices to effectively play a coordinating role, strengthen food safety work during the summer and flood season, and fully ensure the dietary safety of the people. The notice requires urging food production and business enterprises to strictly implement the "daily control, weekly inspection, monthly scheduling" system, comprehensively investigate risks and hidden dangers in the environment, facilities, raw material procurement, processing, storage management, and personnel health of the premises; conscientiously carry out food raw material cleaning, environmental sanitation, equipment maintenance, utensil disinfection, etc., to ensure compliance with food production and operation requirements; take effective measures to prevent food and food-related product contamination, strictly prevent the circulation of corrupt, deteriorated, contaminated food, food raw materials, and semi-finished products in the market, and promptly dispose of contaminated and deteriorated food. The notice emphasizes that local authorities should intensify daily supervision on food items with high consumption such as rice, flour, oil, meat, eggs, dairy products, seasonings, food for key groups such as infants, elderly people, as well as food allocated, donated, sold to disaster areas from and produced by enterprises in disaster areas, and strictly inspect and recall unqualified food, and take corresponding disposal measures according to the law once found. They should investigate and handle in a timely manner illegal and irregular issues discovered through daily supervision and inspection, the 12315 platform, the national food safety internal informant reporting system, etc., and severely crack down on illegal and irregular activities such as producing and selling counterfeit, expired, deteriorated, sewage-contaminated food in disaster areas, rural areas, urban villages, etc.; promptly release food safety consumption tips, strengthen public opinion monitoring and guidance, promptly clarify misinformation, and respond to social concerns; strengthen emergency duty shifts, enhance inter-departmental communication and collaboration, conscientiously implement the requirements of reporting important information quickly, and report major incidents at the first instance.