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Mr. Cao’s Speech at China’s Food Quality and Safety Improvement Action TV/Tele Communication Conference.
August 23, 2007
(A Brief Translation of his Speech)
In addition of “ China’s Food Quality and Safety” published by Information Office of the State Council, I would like to add the following suggestions.
A. CFQS is the must followed principle Our country established law and regulation in different areas:
Product quality and safety
Food sanitary law
Agricultural products/production safety law
Products Quality and standard law
Medicine management law
Importer / Exporter and their goods inspection law
There are total 11 laws.
There are also 22 other regulations for production permits, cosmetic, medical equipment management, industry production and products, etc.
These laws and regulations are the protections for people’s safety and health. They also provided the clearly defined responsibilities of producers, enterprises, corporations and any individual who engages in these business. They provided the guide lines to punish the violated parties.
I think the problems we are facing right now are caused by these laws were not carried out correctly. The violators were not punished properly. Some of the management and inspection control department are not working properly.
1.To clarify, emphases and supplementing the current regulations and laws
2.To clarify the legal responsibilities of producers, enterprises and management with quality control personals. To increase the punishment to the violators of these laws and regulations.
3.To give power to the people who are in charge of inspection, quality control and law/regulation reinforce department to check, stop any violations.
4.To prevent the problems to happen. Strictly to check the whole production process, distribution process. To start from raw materials, farm fields, food addictives, animal feed, etc.
CFQS main ideas:
1. Punishment in 6 areas:
a). Everyone should follow the law and regulations. The punishment for violators are:
For the producers and traders who are the violators
To confiscate the products which violated the quality and safety law and regulations.
To confiscate the income and profits which are from selling of the unlawful products
To confiscate the equipment, tools, raw materials
If there are any serious consequences caused by the producer or their products, they will be fined severely and revoke their business licenses
b). The same punishment are for anyone who uses unsafe and poor quality of raw materials, addictives, animal feed.
c). To establish purchasing inspection procedures. To record, to check the suppliers’ qualifications and products quality certifications. The sales department should have products records to record products names, specifications, quantities, suppliers names, purchasing time, etc. to provide products testing reports. If the products have no testing report, we should forbid to sell this product. Any violations will have the same punishments as we listed above.
d). To establish recall system to reinforce the quality and safety control.
To recall any product which violate the quality and safety regulations and law to ensure to protect people’s lives and health.
To publicly announce the harmful products, to volunteer recall the products immediately. Anyone who violates the laws and regulations will have the same punishment.
e). To establish the record system to record any violations. To record every department: Agriculture department, Senitary department, pharmaceutical, etc
f). To bring violators to the justice. To take them to the court.
2.To give local government and supervisory committee more power to check, stop and punish any violations.
a). if the local government and supervisory committee workers who does not carry on their duty and allowed the violations to happen without punishment, the person will be punished, or fired.
b). If the government official and supervisory committee members do not do their job and let the violators get away, they will be punished as well.
c) To strengthening the communication between different government departments to prevent the problems to fall through the cracks and anyone uses that as the excuses to avoid taking their responsibilities.
d). Each named government agencies have the power to enter the production area to check, inspect, investigate, confiscate, close the violated production facilities, equipment, invoices, and accounting records.
3.Strengthening management and supervision on import/export business
a)Testing records. To record the import/export history ( 2 years at least)
b)To sort out import products in different category and keep the records
c)To put the violators on the black lists.
d)To bring the violators to the law. Anyone who falsifies documents will be bring to justice, to be fined, to revoke business licenses and keep on the records.
e)In order to protect “ Made in China” reputation, we will reinforce the following 4 areas:
The responsibility of suppliers and exporters for the safety of the products
The responsibility of inspectors for export goods
To establish records for all suppliers and exporters. The customs and quality control agencies keep records on every import/export products and announce the violators records to the public.
The customs and boarder control agencies have the power to confiscate anything violated Chinese Laws and Regulations.
How to carry on CFQS:
1. To study it
2. To use media to educate the mass
3. To carry on CFQS from different levels of government agencies to protect people’s health and safety.
Translated by PaiPai Stoltenberg
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