stay two thousand and thirteen Speech at China Food Safety Forum during the National Food Safety Publicity Week in

  two thousand and thirteen year six month seventeen Day

Chen Junshi

Respected Vice Premier Wang Yang, leaders and colleagues

The annual National Food Safety Publicity Week kicked off again with the opening of the China Food Safety Forum. The leaders and experts who made the previous speeches have all made good comments on the theme of this year's "social governance, work together to safeguard food safety".

I believe that to ensure the whole society to work together to maintain food safety, the first thing is that all people responsible for food safety and stakeholders (including the government, scientists, food producers and operators and their industry associations, the media, and consumers) have a certain basic knowledge of food safety, and have a common understanding of the current situation of food safety in China, Only in this way can we work together to safeguard food safety. For example, some people in the society think that the food safety situation in China is so bad that "what can we eat?", while others think that the food safety situation in China is generally good, although there are many problems. For another example, many people believe that the abuse of food additives is the most important food safety problem in China, and it is unsafe to add anything to food, while others believe that food borne diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms contaminating food are the real number one food safety problem. In this case, it is difficult to achieve "one heart" and "hand in hand", the so-called "different ways, do not conspire". Only when we have the same understanding can we be "united" and "hand in hand". However, this is not to say that the whole society cannot have different views and opinions on food safety, but that efforts should be made to reach consensus on some fundamental scientific issues. In order to achieve this, in addition to the risk communication that President Luo Yunbo has just emphasized, the most important thing is to train government officials and supervisors, food producers and operators and their industry associations, laboratory testers, and even the media.

At present, the national food safety supervision system has undergone major reform, the food safety law is about to be revised, some big cities are planning to build the food safety supervision system all the way to the streets or towns, and the food industry associations are also preparing to strengthen their own management, which makes training more necessary and urgent. I would like to take this opportunity to appeal and make suggestions: the national food safety authorities should draw on the useful experience of foreign countries, summarize what China has done well, develop a national food safety training plan with good top-level design, give full play to the power of scientific research institutions and universities, and give full play to government officials and supervisors, testing institutions, food producers and operators, the media Consumers are trained and educated for sustainability.

I have talked with the food safety officials of the World Health Organization and the Global Food Safety Partnership Program officials of the World Bank about training. They all agree that capacity-building and training are key measures to improve the national food safety level from the perspective of improving and strengthening the national food safety management system. Admittedly, the training work also needs the participation of the whole society, as well as "one heart" and "hand in hand". However, I believe that in China, the government must play a leading role in order to achieve results. Therefore, I take the opportunity to speak at today's forum and sincerely hope that My appeals and suggestions can arouse the attention of the leaders of the State Council and the competent food safety departments to the food safety training.

thank you.