Baby milk powder and other foods will be monitored throughout the country

Poisonous capsules, white plasticizers, fast-acting chickens, and black tea pesticides exceeded the standard... Last year, food safety incidents were frequent. Recently, CPPCC members, National Food Safety Risk Assessment Expert Committee members and National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center researcher Yan Weixing introduced that this year will implement a food safety risk monitoring program that will include food, meat products, food, dairy products, and vegetables for infants and young children. Nearly 20 kinds of foods such as fruits, tea, and drinking water are monitored in all directions, covering all places (municipalities) in the country. Yan Weixing introduced that at present, the 2013 National Food Safety Risk Monitoring Plan has been finalized and it will comprehensively develop chemical pollutants and harmful factors in food, microorganisms and pathogenic factors in food, radioactive substances in food, and foodborne diseases. monitor.

Among them, in the monitoring of chemical contaminants and harmful factors in foods, routine monitoring includes 12 types of foods, and special monitoring includes 20 types of foods and related products. The monitoring of food microorganisms and their pathogenic factors includes 12 types of foods. The monitoring of radioactive substances in foods is carried out on the periphery of nuclear power plants that have been put into operation or under construction, and monitoring of other radionuclides has been carried out on eight types of foods.

Taking the routine monitoring content of chemical contaminants and harmful factors in food as an example, it mainly includes 12 kinds of infant food, meat products, food, dairy products, vegetables, fruits, tea, nuts, and drinking water. The monitoring of infant foods has attracted much attention. Yan Weixing introduced that the monitoring requirements cover all types of products sold in the market, including infant formula foods and infant canned supplementary foods.

Yan Weixing introduced that, from the scope of monitoring, it is required that the number of monitoring points set by each province (region, city) should at least account for 50% of the total counties (districts) in the region, and basically cover all the regions (municipalities) in the region. .