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zhang guoqing: crack down on food safety crimes and significantly increase the cost of violations

2024-09-25

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beijing, september 25 (xinhua) -- the main event of the 2024 national food safety publicity week was held in beijing on september 25. zhang guoqing, member of the political bureau of the cpc central committee and vice premier of the state council, attended and delivered a speech. he stressed that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the important instructions of general secretary xi jinping, follow the decisions and arrangements of the cpc central committee and the state council, strengthen supervision of all entities, all varieties, and the entire chain, continuously improve food safety levels, and better meet the people's needs for high-quality life.

zhang guoqing pointed out that food safety is related to the health and life safety of the people, and the "four most stringent" requirements must be fully implemented. we must adhere to strict prevention at the source, further improve the standard system, continuously expand coverage, improve effectiveness, and enhance binding force, and strictly control the first pass of food safety. we must adhere to strict process management, enhance regulatory sensitivity, refine responsibility measures, and innovate regulatory methods, and truly know our responsibilities and weights, dare to manage and really manage, focus on prominent issues that have a bad impact and are of concern to the masses, and take timely action, respond quickly, and punish severely. we must adhere to strict risk control, accelerate the improvement of the food safety traceability system, improve the scientificity and pertinence of detection sampling, strengthen the processing of supervision and spot check results, and effectively prevent and resolve various food safety risks. we must adhere to severe punishment for violations of the law, severely crack down on food safety crimes in accordance with the law, significantly increase the cost of violations of laws and regulations, and warn and guide business entities to operate in good faith and abide by the law.

zhang guoqing emphasized that food safety is a matter of concern and responsibility for everyone, and that we must carry out extensive publicity and education on food safety, vigorously promote the traditional virtues of diligence and thrift, actively promote co-governance and sharing of food safety, and jointly consolidate and strengthen the people's defense line for food safety.