Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision

The 16th Asian Games will be held in Guangzhou in November 2010. There will be delegations from 45 countries and regions participating. The number of athletes There are 14,000 people, about 6,300 technical officials and referees, about 2,000 VIPs from the Olympic Council of Asia, more than 10,000 media reporters, nearly 6,000 event volunteers, and more than 3 million spectators and tourists. How to ensure food safety during the Asian Games has raised a new topic for food safety supervision in our city.

Over the years, the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have always regarded the food safety project as an important task of urban management. Through the joint efforts of governments at all levels and functional departments, our city has basically formed a food safety system. The five major network systems of safety testing, circulation, information, social supervision, and supervision have initially established a full-process food supervision chain from planting and breeding, production and processing, circulation and sales to catering consumption. At the same time, Guangzhou's successful experience in hosting trade fairs for many times as well as the National Games and Ethnic Minority Games has provided certain reference for food safety assurance in the Asian Games. However, due to the low quality awareness of producers and operators, the lack of credit of some enterprises, the fragmented supervision of functional departments, and insufficient sharing of regulatory information, food safety incidents occur from time to time in our city, and food safety supervision is still in the passive response stage. In addition, compared with previous large-scale events, the 15-day Asian Games sports event is larger in scale, longer, more people, and more demanding. Food safety issues have become a major political issue related to social harmony and national image. At a high level, our food safety supervision system is facing a new round of challenges. Asian Games food safety assurance is a systematic project, including food safety supervision work in the city's food breeding, production and processing, circulation, consumption, import and export related to the Asian Games, as well as emergency response to food safety incidents. Only by strengthening the supervision of all links, especially weak links such as transportation and storage, ensuring that all links are strictly controlled and interlocking, that food with problems can be recalled in a timely manner, and traceability investigations of important indicators such as stimulants can be carried out, can we provide The Asian Games provides a safe and healthy eating environment to ensure the smooth holding of the Asian Games. Let’s talk about some specific thoughts on our city’s food supervision for the Asian Games based on our research on food supervision during the Beijing Olympic Games.

1. Put standards first and establish entry thresholds for Asian Games food

To ensure Asian Games food safety, we must first establish and improve the Asian Games food safety standard system and clarify what kind of companies can provide food for the Asian Games. Food, what kind of food can appear on the Asian Games restaurant table. Including:

——Enterprise access standard system. Based on the specific characteristics of the Asian Games such as its scale, venue distribution, and number of meals, detailed provisions are made for the necessary conditions for Asian Games food supply units such as vegetable bases, pig slaughtering sites, food production and processing enterprises, catering units, and logistics distribution, including venues. , facilities, computer systems and other hardware configurations, as well as personnel, management specifications, credit evaluation and other software requirements. The selected companies will be strictly supervised for more than one year in accordance with the standard requirements, and evaluation and selection will be made on this basis.

——Product access standard system. Based on my country's national standards and with reference to the food safety standards of European and American countries, the key foods such as grains, oils, meats, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, poultry and eggs, condiments, and beverages that athletes need daily are formulated to meet the requirements of the Asian Games. food safety standards.

——Inspection and testing standard system. Whether food meets standard requirements can only be scientifically determined through testing. To establish an inspection and testing standard system, we must first study and formulate testing methods for various types of food, focusing on establishing testing methods for toxic and harmful substances in food as well as stimulants, antibiotics, hormones, sleeping pills and other drugs. Secondly, a high-level laboratory must be established to ensure that test conclusions can be made quickly and accurately according to the method.

Asian Games food safety supervision is a complex system project, of which standards are the foundation. Therefore, the Asian Games food safety standard system should be formulated and released as early as possible in order to gain the initiative in time. The regulatory authorities will conduct assessments and selections in accordance with standards to determine Asian Games food supply units as early as possible; supply units will organize production, processing and distribution in accordance with standards to achieve standardization of safety control as soon as possible.

2. Barcode identification and establishing a complete traceability chain

To ensure the safety of Asian Games food, the core is to establish a food safety traceability system to clearly understand where the Asian Games food comes from and what links it flows through. Where to go to realize the network of food safety supervision system.

The core of the traceability system is that a single food should have a unique and easily identifiable identification. Only with such an identification can the tracking and reverse traceability of food circulation be realized. At present, the main identification methods include RFID (radio frequency chip), electronic supervision code, commodity barcode or self-coding that sets coding rules for a certain purpose. Taking into account factors such as the versatility of the mark and the cost of use, using a globally unified standard and traceable commodity barcode is the best choice. Use commodity barcodes as electronic labels for Asian Games food. Through unified coding rules and information collection standards, we can continuously record information on planting or breeding, sorting or slaughtering, production and processing, distribution, storage, catering and other aspects. Through the continuous digital identification of commodity barcodes, By extension, the flow direction, distribution and usage of food can be clearly understood, and food safety traceability can be achieved.

At the same time, using commodity barcodes as information carriers, specific process information of each link can also be recorded, such as vegetable sowing, fertilization, growth, picking, inspection, etc., and the origin, slaughtering, segmentation, and inspection of pigs. etc., raw material purchase, use, production and processing records, inspection, etc. of processed food, thereby realizing dynamic supervision of the entire product process.

At present, there are still situations in our city where different industries or companies use different codes, such as commodity barcodes, agricultural barcodes for vegetables, and enterprise internal management codes. Therefore, to establish a food safety traceability system, we must first use commodity barcodes and computer management systems uniformly throughout the city, so that commodity barcodes become the only ID cards for food, ensuring the same entrance and exit of food traceability information, thereby ensuring the entire food traceability information The chain is highly compatible and enjoyable.

3. Recall unqualified food based on traceability

As a systematic management of Asian Games food safety, in addition to strengthening supervision in the "entry" link, we must also consider When there is a problem with some food, how to find out the source of the problem as quickly as possible through the traceability system, determine the impact of the problem, recall the problem food in a timely manner, and minimize the impact of substandard food.

The food safety traceability system is the basis for the recall of unqualified food. Based on the traceability system, a food recall management system can be established to realize the unified collection, analysis and processing of food recall information.

Once substandard food appears, first use the complete traceability chain to conduct a targeted and rapid recall of the substandard food based on the distribution flow information.

Secondly, based on the production process information, timely find the links and causes of non-conformity, eliminate potential hazards and risks as soon as possible, and continuously standardize the enterprise. During the Asian Games, if an athlete's urine test fails, traceability through the food chain can be used to help investigate the source of stimulants and find out whether it is caused by the migration of stimulants from food, especially animal-derived foods.

Third, conduct food safety hazard investigation and assessment of unqualified food, explain and explain possible hazards through risk analysis, avoid exaggerating the degree of food safety risks, and scientifically guide the handling of unqualified food. Harmless treatment or destruction, and provide an important basis for properly responding to similar food safety emergencies in the future and formulating food safety supervision measures.

4. Based on the long term, establish a comprehensive food safety control platform

The establishment of a food safety supervision system for the Asian Games must not only meet the special requirements of the Asian Games and meet the food safety supervision and guarantee of the Asian Games, but also Based on meeting the requirements of the city's long-term development, we must comprehensively improve the level of food safety supervision and effectively ensure the quality and safety of food in our city.

——Use modern information technology to connect the Asian Games food safety traceability system with the electronic supervision code system, organizational code library, commodity barcode library and data from the supervision systems of various functional departments to form a comprehensive food safety system in our city information platform. Product process information is further expanded to include enterprise supervision information, including enterprise licenses, famous brands, inspection exemptions, well-known trademarks, ISO certifications, food production licenses and entrusted processing filings, supervision and spot inspections at all levels and departments, etc.

The regulatory data is directly provided by the database of each functional department system to achieve real-time docking and ensure the reliability and authority of the data.

——Through the comprehensive information platform, the regulatory department’s supervision and spot inspection data and the enterprise process inspection data are organically combined, and the data of a single or multiple foods, the whole city or a certain region, the whole year or a certain quarter and a month are analyzed. Statistics and analysis, research on various factors affecting food quality and safety in our city, timely release of early warning information, formulate intervention measures and response plans, prevent and mitigate potential food hazards and risks to the greatest extent, and transform supervision from passive coping to active protection type.

——Establish a quantitative credit evaluation system through a comprehensive information platform. Based on the enterprise quality and safety assurance system and the supervision information of various functional departments as the core, we evaluate the credit of food enterprises by designing scientific and reasonable evaluation methods and scoring standards, and transform the credit evaluation results into an intuitive score form, based on the score. Automatically generate corporate credit rankings by value, create a good food safety credit environment, and further standardize the production and operation behavior of food companies.

——Through the comprehensive information platform and the establishment of consumer terminals, consumers can understand the relevant information of the purchased food, the situation of the production enterprise and food safety-related knowledge through the identification terminal, and fulfill the food safety requirements While fulfilling safety supervision responsibilities, we should better provide public services to the society, protect people's right to know, popularize food science knowledge, and create a good consumption atmosphere.

Eventually, a full-process food supervision chain from planting and breeding, production and processing, circulation and sales to catering consumption was established, a quality traceability system and an accountability system for food quality and safety were established, and a system covering the whole society was established. The food quality information supervision network has brought our city's food quality and safety to a new level