The 12th Five-Year Plan encourages the development of high-quality dairy products

Minister of Health Chen Hao recently stated that China has gradually established a food safety risk monitoring network covering the whole country.

Chen Hao said that since the implementation of the Food Safety Law, the food safety risk monitoring system was initially established. At present, a total of 1,196 monitoring sites for chemical pollutants, food additives, and food-borne pathogenic microorganisms have been set up across the country, covering 100% of provinces, 73% of municipalities, and 25% of counties. Active monitoring has been conducted in 416 medical institutions. Foodborne abnormalities or health events. The health department also carried out a series of emergency and routine food safety risk assessment projects and completed basic risk assessments such as melamine, acrylamide, Sudan red, chloropropanol, bromate, and dioxin pollution. In October last year, the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center was formally established and the work was fully rolled out.

It is reported that the Ministry of Health is currently organizing the implementation of the 2012 national food safety risk monitoring plan, with four key points: First, the development of dairy products, edible oils, health foods, fresh meat and meat products, food additives, alcoholic beverages, and banned pesticides Food safety monitoring with veterinary drugs, illegal food additives, etc.; secondly, it will continue to strengthen the monitoring of radioactive substances in foods in response to nuclear accidents at Japan's nuclear power plants; and thirdly, it will increase the use of key locations such as schools, farmers' markets, bazaars, and wholesale markets. Monitoring; Fourth, active monitoring of foodborne diseases is carried out through sentinel hospitals, and a traceability platform for the etiology of foodborne diseases is established to promptly and accurately identify problem foods and pathogenic agents.

According to Chen Hao, the National Food Safety Supervision System Plan 2011-2015 during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” led by the State Council’s Food Safety Office has decided to include evaluation center construction in key construction projects. By the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” appraisal center will be built into an authoritative technical organization for food safety with scientific credibility and international influence, and at the same time establish a national food safety risk assessment system supported by the national center as a leader and local risk assessment technical support organization.