The speculation of "Live Fish off the Shelf" is also a kind of supervision.

While ensuring food safety, we should also take into account the stable supply of the market and the actual needs of consumers. Market law enforcement departments only crack down on illegal vendors, and should protect and encourage trustworthy enterprises and safe production and marketing behaviors. They should not only prevent unqualified food from being put on the table, but also encourage legal operators to sell qualified food confidently and generously.

Beijing City Food and Drug Administration said yesterday, The city's supervision and sampling inspection of aquatic products are carried out according to the relevant standard procedures, There is no so-called "leakage" problem; Online transmission Beijing City water pollution caused by freshwater fish pollution is not credible, Some supermarkets stop selling fresh water live fish belongs to enterprise independent behavior, Beijing market live fish inspection no problem, Relevant departments are actively coordinating to ensure market supply. (See version A6 for related reports)

Such rumors appear in society, often "groundless wind, not without cause." Since May this year, a number of large supermarkets in Beijing have been taking live fish off the shelves for six consecutive years. At present, there are few supermarkets still selling live fish. This inevitably makes the public wonder why a good supermarket counter doesn't sell live fish? Besides, there have been reports that live fish sold in supermarkets have been found unqualified before. On November 7, Beijing City Food and Drug Administration once issued a food safety supervision and sampling announcement on its official website, mentioning that the fish quality sampling inspection in supermarkets failed. Combined, this information makes it easy to guess that supermarket fish are being pulled because of quality problems with fish or water.

The explanation and clarification by the Food and Drug Administration and other departments can be said to be timely. If rumors are allowed to spread, it will not take long for them to become turbulent rumors. Supermarkets stop selling live fish on their own, perhaps because they don't make much money selling live fish, supermarkets need to adjust their money-making strategies, perhaps because they have concerns about food safety, so it's better to temporarily remove them from shelves and resume sales after relevant work has been effectively improved. Moreover, the removal does not mean that there must be quality problems in live fish, perhaps only because the spot check intensity has been increased, the supermarket is worried about which spot check will go wrong, it is better to temporarily remove the shelf to rectify by itself, do things more safely. In short, for some supermarkets to remove live fish, can not be preconceived blind qualitative, let alone in order to prove their qualitative accuracy, artificially fabricated, spread all kinds of false words.

From March 1 this year, Beijing City began to implement the Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Sales Quality and Safety of Edible Agricultural Products Market, strengthening the supervision over the sales of edible agricultural products. On July 29, the Food Safety Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Health and Family Planning Commission, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration and other departments jointly issued the Notice on the Action Plan for the Special Rectification of Antibiotics, Prohibited Compounds and Veterinary Drug Residues in Livestock and Aquatic Products, and the special rectification of prohibited substances in livestock and poultry aquatic products was carried out uniformly throughout the country. This activity is still in progress. Recently, Beijing City Food and Drug Administration launched a special inspection on food safety in winter. These deployments and activities are superimposed together, and food safety supervision forms a high-pressure situation. Under this background, live fish that are more prone to problems in supermarkets are removed from shelves, which should first be regarded as the normal reaction of supermarkets (representing the market).

It can be seen from this that the reason for the emergence of rumors is mainly because the state and local governments have increased the inspection and supervision of relevant foods. Although similar remediation will make consumption inconvenient to some extent, it will undoubtedly make food safety more secure. From this point of view, the "supermarket live fish off the shelf" caused public speculation, should not be simply regarded as a bad thing, but can be regarded as a good, consumers "loss" some convenient experience, if can be exchanged for a larger range, a higher level of food safety, it is worth it. As the rectification campaign spreads across the country, phenomena such as "supermarket live fish off shelves" may also occur elsewhere, so there is no need to worry about anxiety, let alone excessive association and interpretation.

From another perspective, the rumors also reflect public concerns and worries about food safety. "Supermarket live fish off the shelf" in the public caused some speculation, which is not only to strengthen market supervision, to ensure food safety to the maximum extent of a deep appeal, but also to the government and functional departments according to law supervision, strict law enforcement of a kind of supervision.

Relevant departments should judge and explain the phenomenon of "supermarket live fish off the shelf" in advance, so as to avoid misunderstanding due to poor information. While ensuring food safety, we should also take into account the stable supply of the market and the actual needs of consumers. Market law enforcement departments only crack down on illegal vendors, and should protect and encourage trustworthy enterprises and safe production and marketing behaviors. They should not only prevent unqualified food from being put on the table, but also encourage legal operators to sell qualified food confidently and generously.