Garrett dispute "will not be relaxed!" The Food and Drug Administration has temporarily suspended the revision of the Garnet standard. Civic groups affirm that they hope to include citizen participation in the future.

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In response to the recent relaxation of the pesticide residue standards that people are most concerned about, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced today the latest wave of amendments to the pesticide residue tolerance standards, including no pesticide. The Deputy Director of Food and Drug Administration, Mr Lam Kam-fu, said that updating pesticide residue standards for a number of cereals, including oats, would be postponed in response to public concerns.

Glyphosate is one of the most controversial herbicides in the world, commonly known as "Niannianchun". The US public sued Monsanto and Bayer for causing cancer. Pesticide companies even lost. Vietnam and Thailand announced that they would ban glyphosate. On April 23, China's Food and Drug Administration announced that it would revise the pesticide residue tolerance standard, adding a number of allowable levels of phosphorus in imported cereals. Ten miscellaneous grains such as wheat, oats, barley, rye and rapeseed, which are eaten in high quantities by Chinese people, are included in the updated list, two wheat standards are relaxed, and other cereals are not allowed to be detected to 10 ppm.

This move caused social controversy, questioning the past oatmeal and other grains can not be detected and there is no problem, why need to relax? Many people worried about the possibility of future phosphorus residues in domestic food increased greatly, one after another to the public policy network participation platform to reflect opinions, within 60 days of the forecast poured into 751 comments. In addition, Avaaz platform also launched "Would you like to eat Jiapo residual grain?" It received nearly 40,000 responses.

Food and Drug Administration: The international controversy over Jiapusai will be suspended first to protect public food safety

After more than three months, the Food and Drug Administration said today that there were many studies on the health risks of glyphosate, and the results were mixed. There was no complete conclusion. Therefore, it was necessary to solicit views from all walks of life and it was not appropriate to announce it hastily. Therefore, it was decided to suspend the revision of the pesticide standard of glyphosate. Lin Jinfu said,"Because received a lot of comments during the notice period, There are also legislators held press conferences, So in the future will be re-evaluated, For now temporarily suspended."

The Chief of Food Division of the Food and Drug Administration, Mr Liu Ka-ting, further explained that the department would continue to monitor international developments and keep abreast of the latest management measures in advanced countries. He said that when the case was first evaluated two or three years ago, there was not so much controversy internationally. Recently, there have been some precedents in the United States, so the FDA has also stepped on the brakes. "We are duty-bound to protect the safety of our citizens," he assured the public. In the future, he would never make public without adequate communication with the outside world.

Wei Renting, deputy head of the Food Group, also said that many public opinions were received at the public policy network participation platform this time, and the Food and Drug Administration attached great importance to it, and also replied in detail today that it was a positive example of communication between citizens and the government.

Deputy Director of Food and Drug Administration, Mr Lam Kam-fu (Photo/Ms Helena Duan)

Citizen groups: Affirming the Ministry of Health and Welfare as a mechanism for citizen participation in the review process

Chen Ruwei, co-sponsor of the school lunch non-foundation action concerned about this matter, learned that the Food and Drug Administration suspended the matter, and was pleased that the Ministry of Health and Welfare could accept the views of the public."In the future, I hope that the government can incorporate the opinions of citizen groups when formulating food safety related standards. After the citizen communication process first, there will be less controversy."

Chen Ruwei also pointed out that the Food and Drug Administration is also responsible for the liberalization of genetically modified foods. International developments in this area are also changing rapidly. In recent years, there has been more and more scientific evidence and cases. Since there are citizen groups that have long been concerned, they can discuss and face these problems together with the government.

"Citizen participation is a very important thing," said Zhang Yuling, executive director of the Environmental Protection Foundation of the Housewives 'Union. This time, the Housewives 'Union launched a one-person letter to leave a message on the public platform to gather everyone's strength and let the government see the people's doubts. She pointed out that food safety standards have always relied on experts to deliberate behind closed doors. The public cannot see or know what their basis is. If the public also has opinions to express, they can go to the public policy network platform. Everyone can express their opinions. The power of citizens can indeed make changes.

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