2024 State Administration for Market Regulation Food Safety Work Summary: Safeguarding "Food Safety on Our Tongues"

2024 State Administration for Market Regulation Food Safety Work Summary: Safeguarding "Food Safety on Our Tongues"In 2024, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) resolutely implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, as well as the work arrangements of the State Council Food Safety Committee. Strictly adhering to the "four strictest" requirements (referring to the strictest standards in legislation, law enforcement, supervision, and accountability), and with the goal of safeguarding the "food safety on our tongues" for the people, the SAMR achieved significant results

2024 State Administration for Market Regulation Food Safety Work Summary: Safeguarding "Food Safety on Our Tongues"

In 2024, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) resolutely implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, as well as the work arrangements of the State Council Food Safety Committee. Strictly adhering to the "four strictest" requirements (referring to the strictest standards in legislation, law enforcement, supervision, and accountability), and with the goal of safeguarding the "food safety on our tongues" for the people, the SAMR achieved significant results. Throughout the year, the SAMR carried out highly effective work in solidifying responsibilities, strengthening risk prevention and control, conducting special rectification campaigns targeting prominent issues, increasing regulatory efforts, and severely punishing illegal activities according to law, making significant contributions to ensuring food safety.

I. Solidifying Responsibilities and Strengthening Risk Prevention and Control: Building a Food Safety Responsibility System

To ensure the implementation of food safety responsibilities, the SAMR focused on promoting the implementation of local food safety management and the "two responsibilities" of enterprises (government responsibility and enterprise responsibility). Guiding food production and operation enterprises to earnestly implement their main responsibilities was a crucial aspect. The SAMR actively guided enterprises to legally equip themselves with food safety directors and officers, and, based on the actual situations of enterprises, established and improved a work mechanism of "daily control, weekly inspection, and monthly scheduling" to effectively prevent risks. Furthermore, the formulation and promotion of the "Food Safety Risk Control Checklist" further enhanced the systematization, scientific nature, and effectiveness of food safety risk prevention and control, providing a stronger guarantee for food safety. The implementation of these measures effectively promoted the construction of the food safety responsibility system, laying a solid foundation for food safety work. By strictly enforcing responsibility, the SAMR established a full-chain food safety supervision mechanism from production to consumption, ensuring the effective implementation of food safety responsibilities and effectively protecting the dietary safety of the people.

II. Focusing on Prominent Issues and Conducting Special Rectifications: Precisely Striking at Illegal Food Safety Activities

In 2024, the SAMR focused on prominent issues in the field of food safety and launched a series of special rectification campaigns, achieving remarkable results. The special campaign to investigate and crack down on "special supply liquor" ("te gong jiu") was one important measure. Local market regulation departments worked closely with public security organs to forcefully strike at the production and sale of counterfeit goods. A total of 712,000 bottles of "special supply liquor" were seized, and 219 counterfeit production and sales sites were busted, effectively purifying the market environment and protecting consumer rights.

Simultaneously, severely cracking down on illegal and criminal activities involving meat products was also a key task. Market regulation departments investigated and handled 22,000 cases of illegal and criminal activities involving meat products, with a total value involved of 1.856 billion yuan, effectively deterring illegal and criminal activities and ensuring the quality and safety of meat products.

To ensure the healthy growth of adolescents, the SAMR deepened the rectification of prominent food safety issues in primary and secondary schools. A comprehensive supervisory inspection was conducted on 175,000 primary and secondary schools and off-campus catering units nationwide, with a total of 227,000 problems rectified, effectively safeguarding food safety on campuses. These special rectification campaigns not only effectively cracked down on illegal food safety activities, but also improved the precision and effectiveness of food safety supervision, providing the people with safer and more reliable food security.

III. Increasing Regulatory Efforts and Strictly Investigating and Punishing Illegal Activities According to Law: Ensuring the High Efficiency of Food Safety Supervision

In 2024, the SAMR continued to increase its efforts in food safety supervision and strictly investigated and punished all types of illegal food safety activities according to law. Market regulation departments nationwide conducted a total of 9.734 million supervisory inspections of food production and operation entities and conducted supervisory inspections of 6.7949 million batches of food samples, demonstrating broad coverage and significant efforts, effectively deterring illegal activities.

For special foods, the SAMR further strengthened supervision. System inspections of special food production enterprises were promoted, with 100% coverage of annual inspections for infant formula milk powder and special medical purpose formula food enterprises, and the completion of the first round of five-year comprehensive inspections for health food enterprises, ensuring the quality and safety of special foods.

The continuous implementation of the "Iron Fist" campaign in the field of people's livelihood is an important measure of the SAMR to maintain food safety. A total of 536,000 cases of food safety violations were investigated and handled throughout the year, with 3,298 cases transferred to judicial organs, effectively combating food safety crimes, maintaining a good market order, reflecting the determination and efforts of market regulation departments to strictly investigate and punish illegal activities according to law, effectively deterring illegal and criminal activities, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the people.

IV. Summary and Outlook: Continuously Safeguarding "Food Safety on Our Tongues"

In 2024, the SAMR achieved remarkable results in food safety supervision, effectively protecting the "food safety on our tongues" of the people. In the future, the SAMR will continue to adhere to the "four strictest" requirements, continuously improve the food safety supervision system, increase regulatory efforts, strengthen risk prevention and control, continuously conduct special rectification campaigns, and effectively ensure the dietary safety of the people, making greater contributions to building a harmonious society. It will continue to deepen the construction of the food safety supervision system, continuously improve supervision capabilities and levels, and continuously safeguard the "food safety on our tongues" of the people, contributing to the construction of a healthy China. This requires continuous improvement of the supervision mechanism, strengthening the application of technological means, improving supervision efficiency, and strengthening communication and cooperation with all sectors of society to jointly build a solid food safety defense line. At the same time, it is also necessary to continuously strengthen food safety publicity and education to improve the public's awareness of and self-protection capabilities regarding food safety. Only through the joint efforts of multiple parties can "food safety on our tongues" be better protected. In future work, the SAMR will continue to put the people first, continuously improve work methods, improve supervision efficiency, and provide the people with safer and more reliable food security. Continuous improvement of the food safety risk monitoring and early warning mechanism will be implemented to promptly identify and respond to food safety risks and ensure the dietary safety of the people. At the same time, international cooperation will be strengthened, and international advanced experience will be learned from to improve the level of food safety supervision.

Through the effective implementation of the above measures, the SAMR effectively protected the "food safety on our tongues" of the people in 2024, making a positive contribution to the national economic and social development and the health and well-being of the people. In the future, the SAMR will continue its efforts to provide the people with safer and more reliable food security.

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