How to manage the quality and safety of agricultural products during the 13th five-year Plan?

On July 2, the Agricultural products quality Standards Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture held the first "Nongan Public Welfare training Hall" in Beijing. This is a professional knowledge training activity organized spontaneously by the institution to give full play to its advantages in scientific research, with the purpose of "public welfare, mutual assistance, and exchange," centering on the hot and difficult issues concerned by the quality and safety managers of agricultural products at the grass-roots level. Experts from the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and other relevant units are invited to give lectures and answer questions. The training activity attracted nearly 100 comrades from 14 provinces, cities and counties to participate in the supervision of the quality and safety of agricultural products.

Qian Yongzhong, director of the Agricultural products quality Standards Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, attended the opening ceremony of the "Nongan Public Welfare training Hall" and delivered a speech. Director Qian Yongzhong stressed that holding a public welfare training hall for agricultural safety is an innovative form for scientific research institutions to communicate the quality and safety risks of agricultural products, and it is also a supplement and enrichment to the existing training system for the quality and safety of agricultural products. Centering on the core tasks of the current Agricultural products quality and Safety Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and the main work of grass-roots agricultural departments, it is necessary to carefully plan training courses, continuously innovate training methods, and effectively meet the needs of many parties, so as to be approachable, distinctive and sustainable.

2016 is the first year of the 13th five-year Plan, and the quality and safety management of agricultural products is facing new opportunities and challenges. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the "four strictest", demanding that the most stringent standards, the strictest supervision, the harshest punishment, and the most serious accountability be used to ensure the safety on the tip of the tongue, emphasizing that food safety is "produced" and "controlled". Chen Xiaohua, vice minister of agriculture, proposed at the 2016 national work conference on the supervision of the quality and safety of agricultural products that the qualified rate of major agricultural products should reach more than 97% by the end of the 13th five-year Plan, basically achieve the output safety of agricultural products, and strive to ensure that major incidents of quality and safety of agricultural products do not occur, and effectively ensure the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of the people.

The quality and safety supervision of grass-roots agricultural products directly faces the producers and operators of agricultural products and plays a very important fundamental role in the source control and quality control of agricultural products. In order to implement the spirit of the Central Conference, perform supervision duties and strengthen supervision throughout the process, in the process of actively establishing a national agricultural product quality and safety county, grass-roots comrades urgently need to understand the development trend of agricultural product quality and safety management during the 13th five-year Plan period. There is an urgent need to understand the reform trend of agricultural product quality and safety quality inspection institutions, and there is an urgent need to master effective methods for law enforcement and supervision of agricultural product quality and safety. There is an urgent need to explore innovative tools for the application of information-based supervision of the quality and safety of agricultural products.

Gao Shan: the Law on quality and Safety of Agricultural products should be revised to reconstruct the mode of law enforcement and supervision.

Focusing on the overall situation of the current quality and safety management of agricultural products, Gao Shan, a researcher at the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, focused on the opportunities and challenges to the quality and safety management of agricultural products brought about by the reform of the food safety management system and the revision of the Food Safety Law. And a series of major measures, such as the reform of public institutions, the reform of quality inspection institutions, the comprehensive law enforcement reform of agriculture and the reform of buses, may have the most direct impact on the law enforcement and supervision of the quality and safety of grass-roots agricultural products.

Gao Shan believes that under the new situation, the responsibility of the agricultural sector in the supervision of food safety is prominent, but restricted by the existing mode of agricultural production in our country, the institutional arrangement in the Law on the quality and Safety of Agricultural products does not follow the usual train of thought of subject management. instead, it is designed by the mode of product management, and the subject behavior is indirectly adjusted through product management, which undoubtedly greatly increases the difficulty of agricultural product quality and safety supervision.

In addition, as the management department of the agricultural industry, the agricultural sector performs the responsibility of supervising the quality and safety of agricultural products under the industrial management system, and its main goal is still to promote the development of agriculture and rural economy, especially the development of agricultural industry. the scope of supervision is mainly concentrated in the middle of production. The supervision tools mainly choose the forward guiding measures, such as the technical popularization of agricultural standardized production, the inspection of the overall quality and safety of agricultural products, and the reward and supplement promotion of agricultural product certification, but in terms of performing the public management duty of ensuring consumer safety, the agricultural sector urgently needs to speed up the reconstruction of a new law enforcement and supervision system for the quality and safety of agricultural products.

In order to meet the requirements of the new situation, Gao Shan proposed to make efforts in five major aspects during the 13th five-year Plan period: first, to strengthen public services as the starting point to enhance the ability of supervision; second, to establish a departmental coordination mechanism with market access management as the key point; third, to build a monitoring and early warning platform based on the construction of inspection and testing system; fourth, to promote comprehensive law enforcement as a breakthrough to improve the regulatory system. Fifth, take the implementation of social supervision as the foothold, improve the supervision mechanism.

Wang Weimin: the establishment of a national agricultural product quality and safety county focuses on improving the supervision ability at the grass-roots level

Wang Weimin, director of the Supervision Department of the Agricultural products quality and Safety Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture, emphatically introduced the important significance, development background, ideas, and main tasks of the establishment of the national agricultural product quality and safety county, as well as the current progress in the establishment of the national agricultural product quality and safety county, explained in detail the assessment indicators and relevant requirements of the national agricultural product quality and safety county, and put forward some requirements and hopes for the next step of work.

Wang Yan: agricultural product quality inspection institutions should adapt to the new normal and make a difference.

Wang Yan, director of the testing capability Evaluation Department of the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, introduced the important role of agricultural product quality and safety inspection, analyzed and summarized the main achievements, operation and management status and existing problems of the construction of the national agricultural product quality and safety inspection system, systematically expounded the purpose and assessment requirements of the qualification management of agricultural inspection institutions, and put forward six points of thinking, especially in view of the development situation of agricultural products quality and safety inspection institutions.

Hu Tao: the law enforcement and supervision of the quality and safety of grass-roots agricultural products should form a joint force.

Hu Tao, deputy chief of Hubei Agricultural Administrative Comprehensive Law Enforcement Corps, introduced the reform background and main progress of comprehensive agricultural law enforcement, analyzed and discussed the relationship and difference between agricultural product quality and safety supervision and law enforcement, and focused on the scope and requirements of grass-roots agricultural product quality and safety law enforcement, as well as the key points and difficulties of law enforcement.

Chen Song, deputy director of the Policy and Information Department of the Agricultural products quality Standards Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that since the Ministry of Agriculture implemented the "pollution-free Food Action Plan" in 2001, China's agricultural product quality and safety supervision system has grown from scratch, and the guarantee capability has gradually changed from weak to strong, and the safety level has increased from low to high, and has become better and better.

Chen Song said that the main purpose of holding the Nong'an Public Welfare training Hall is to spread new ideas, exchange new ideas, cultivate new momentum, and build a new platform for interaction between scientific research and practice. Taking the form of face-to-face communication can stimulate the enthusiasm and initiative of grass-roots agricultural product quality and safety supervisors, gather a group of thinking experts and practical grass-roots managers, and timely understand the demands of the grass-roots level. and then enrich our research content, share and promote our research results, and gradually promote the quality and safety management of agricultural products to a new height.

It is understood that during the 13th five-year Plan period, the Policy and Information Department will continue to strengthen the research on policies and regulations on the quality and safety of agricultural products, continue to carry out the addition of certificates to the market of edible agricultural products, and the application of rapid testing methods in law enforcement and supervision. and the quality and safety of agricultural products credit evaluation management and other three policy pilot, to explore the most economical and effective management tools for the quality and safety supervision of agricultural products at the grass-roots level. Efforts will be made to promote the implementation of the four major strategies of quality optimization, safety awareness, credit enhancement of law enforcement and capacity enhancement, so as to provide technical support for ensuring consumer safety and promoting industrial upgrading.