Behind the fraud of organic industry: there is a "grey area" in the certification link.

Individual organic industry varieties are facing a certain trust crisis. We look forward to the joint efforts of all parties concerned to build the organic industry into a "high-quality demonstration" of food safety and honest management.

The illegal use of feed additives in organic farms, organic vegetables detected pesticide residues exceeded the standard. The chaos of "organic fraud" is often refurbished. Everyone hates the counterfeiting of individual "organic" products and has no confidence in their quality. Who is willing to pay more for organic products with unguaranteed quality?

There may be three reasons for the "organic chaos". First, there is a "grey area" in the certification link. There are media reports: "A number of certification bodies have said that there is a certain operating space for organic certification, and if they are not satisfied with the auditors, they can even coordinate the replacement on the spot." "the certification body will give advance notice to each audit." Second, there are obvious loopholes in the supervision link. In the interview, industry insiders "spoiler": the regulatory authorities only come to check once every half a year or once a year, and they are all spot checks, and enterprises have the opportunity to exploit loopholes; some institutions even provide "risk aversion guidance services" business. by a special person to guide organic vegetables after the use of chemical pesticides how not to be detected. Third, the cost of violation is low and the benefit is large. For example, the output of organic vegetables is low, but the price is several to ten times that of ordinary vegetables, the risk of violation and cost are low, the production process naturally has the motivation to increase production by lowering production standards, and the sales link also has the incentive to increase the price by inferior quality.

If we look at today's dairy industry, we may be able to warn the organic industry. After the melamine incident that year, the domestic dairy industry has made remarkable progress, and the quality of some brands is even better than that of foreign imports. Although many years have passed, it will take time for consumers to buy it sincerely. Once bitten, twice shy. The key to the revival of the dairy industry is to rebuild trust, and the unfaithful have a long way to go to regain trust. This is the price of dishonesty in quality at that time.

The price of breaking one's word is not small. If the organic industry falsifies from time to time, producers, consumers, certification authorities, regulators and other relevant parties will undoubtedly be big losers. At present, the organic industry is facing a certain crisis of trust, but it is not too late to prescribe the right remedy to the case.

Do a good job of certification. The quality supervision department can, by establishing a blacklist system and withdrawal mechanism, impose heavy penalties on certification bodies that find violations to cancel their qualifications, and urge certification institutions to strengthen the tracking investigation, examination and evaluation of certification objects from the standpoint of safeguarding their own interests. fully establish the seriousness and authority of certification.

Strengthen supervision. Once or twice a year but also advance notice of testing, supervision, to a large extent led to the lack of substantive supervision of production links. The key to supervision is to improve effectiveness and deterrence. The "double random" supervision mode of random selection of inspected objects and inspectors, surprise third-party detection and so on have been proved to be effective in practice and should be widely used. For illegal and untrustworthy enterprises and individuals, we will increase restrictions on industry access, bidding, government procurement and other aspects until they are "banned". When the cost of breaking the law is much higher than the income, or even too large to bear, abiding by the law will become a rational choice.

Increase the transparency of production. The establishment of a quality traceability system, conditional use of the Internet of things and other advanced information technology, so that consumers can trace back to all aspects of production in detail. At the same time, through a variety of forms, increase openness to consumers, increase their participation, and enhance trust through increased transparency.

We look forward to the joint efforts of all parties concerned to turn crises into opportunities and turn the organic industry into a "boutique demonstration" of food safety and integrity management.