If opening up pig imports is irreversible, we should actually think about what to do.

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For a long time, there have been food safety incidents, from mixed oil, feed milk powder, toxic agricultural products, and legal imports of agricultural products due to political factors, such as the import of beautiful cattle and those containing clenbuterol to today's beautiful pigs containing clenbuterol. Every time we see the panic of the hard-hit farmers, the general consumer, the anger of the opposition, and the helplessness of the ruling party. ..., but after each issue, what is the result? List of Food Safety events in Taiwan

This time, I have not only opened my mouth, I have proposed a thorough treatment, that is, every food should be traced back to the source, and the way that can be implemented immediately is to use the https://www.taft.com.tw/taft/) platform. I will explain in detail the benefits, convenience and fairness of using the traceability platform. I will first explain why this is done and what the current situation is.

Many people will say that the government has done something! How is this different from the intentional traceability platform? Let me explain to you several traceability platforms used by the government. You can find these platforms from the Ministry of Health and Fuzhou [Food Information system entry Network].

The Ministry of Health and Welfare must pursue: official statement: the Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare has implemented a "must-pursue" traceability system since 2014, requiring food operators to declare the source of "raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products" and keep transaction documents for five years for reference. Vernacular problem description: opaque and open: based on the two levels of secrets: trade secrets and state secrets, all the traceability data of this system from the production or import of raw materials, the process of raw materials from large and medium-sized plates to processing plants, and the production of final products can only be seen by "government-specific people". Something went wrong: it was quickly traced back to the platform by "government-specific people". And promptly inform manufacturers to deal with it in a timely manner, so as to minimize the impact of food safety problems, so as to protect the rights and interests of manufacturers and consumers, and then broadcast news to demonstrate the government's determination to combat food safety. Only the label information affixed to the food is open and transparent:

Consumer inquiry

Take edible oil products as an example

Please click on any oil commodity to have a look, and what he presents are: product name, packaging specification, product classification, company name, product traceability system serial code (which can only be seen by specific people of the government, ordinary people cannot), origin (Taiwan is usually written here, but raw materials may be imported), warnings, features, packaging marks (usually with nutrition labels), content labels, inspection reports.

These are just product introduction pages: this information is all visible on the label when you buy this can of oil, so why advertise it for them again? The traceability data of raw materials production or import, the process of raw materials from large and medium-sized plates to processing plants, and the production of final products can not be seen at all. What does this have to do with traceability? The Ministry of Education's campus food login platform: official statement: in order to maintain campus food safety, the Ministry of Education cooperates with the Executive Yuan's Food Cloud Program to promote the traceability and tracking of school food materials at all levels, and to build a campus food login platform to provide transparent school meal information. Description of the vernacular problem: opaque and open: based on the two secret levels of trade secrets and state secrets, this system can only know who bought the final product from. All the traceability information about the production or import of raw materials, and the process of raw materials from large and medium-sized plates to the group meal factory, no one can see it from this system alone, and only "government-specific people" can see what has to be chased. There is a problem: we can only find the final supplier immediately. If the problem does not lie with this supplier, then follow the inevitable model, and let "government-specific people" quickly go to the platform for retrospective processing, and promptly inform manufacturers to deal with them in a timely manner, so as to minimize the impact of food safety problems, so as to protect the rights and interests of manufacturers and consumers, and then carry out news broadcasts to show the government's determination to combat food safety. Only the information of the final supplier is open and transparent:

[query] is to go to the website to present the school information [advanced query] you can query any school that has a login system.

Take the current inquiry school as an example, 2020-09-01 Sanyu Primary School, Shilin District, Taipei City

We curry pig as an example, then click on the FDA on the right side of the meat corner, we see the supplier of this pork, but we can't see whether this piece of pork is imported or domestic? What's more, there is no confidential information about the feeding of this piece of pork, the date of slaughtering, the manufacturer of the circulation process, and the weight of the school.

The nutritious lunch information of our children should be more transparent: if the information that must be pursued is a state secret, then the nutritious lunch is a state-subsidized meal, so why do we need to have secrets? if we all do this to our own children, then when they grow up in the future, why do they have to pay taxes to support our group of elderly people? The official statement of the Taiwan Agricultural products production traceability system of the Council of Agriculture: agricultural producers and operators are encouraged to take the initiative to disclose production information and carry out total quality independent management, so as to enhance consumers' sense of trust in the agricultural products they buy. Vernacular problem description: only transparent and open source: this system can only know who produces agricultural products, but after being sold to the wholesale market, no one can see the traceability of large and medium-sized plates to restaurants or processing plants alone. Many can not even be seen because the circulation of agricultural products sometimes does not have to be chased at all. In addition, after agricultural products arrive at the wholesale market, wholesalers may gather farms from different sources of the same agricultural products, such as cabbage, and so on. There is a problem: stickers can only be found on the basket of agricultural products, but if someone is mixed up in the process, the farmer is just a scapegoat. It can only be traced back to the source, not traceability: the farmer who only sees this agricultural product (but is it really this farmer?), there is no confidential information about the manufacturer in the circulation process and the weight of the various restaurants or processing plants. I don't see what this has to do with traceability? What's more, some manufacturers may do so, buying 1 kg to take the source data, and the other 999 kg to be mixed with imports, because the system does not show weight.

According to the QRCODE on the packaging of agricultural products, or click on the network to enter the farmers' information, you can only see: name, contact telephone number, EMAIL, region, agricultural product name, agricultural product circulation process is not visible.

The production and marketing resume of the Council of Agriculture official statement: the production and marketing curriculum vitae is a voluntary agricultural product verification system, only the verified products can declare the "production and marketing resume", and the relevant rights and interests are protected by law. To understand the production and marketing experience, we can understand it from three aspects of the system: "Information disclosure and traceability", "Taiwan good Agricultural practices (TGAP)", and "third-party verification system." Vernacular problem points: the process of raising and planting is all transparent and open: this system is a system that the government has verified the process, including the whole process of production, processing or slaughtering.

According to the production and marketing resume QRCODE on the agricultural product packaging, take Taiwan Quanzhen pig as an example, or enter the traceability number on the network, you can see the product name, agricultural product operator, acronym, producer name, origin, packaging date, verification agency, as well as the name of livestock farm, owner, registration certificate, indentured veterinarian, domicile, as well as the production records and processing information of this batch of pork.

At present, the verification is limited to farmers and units registered with factories: if they are wholesalers, distributors, and restaurants, they cannot be traced back because there are no verification regulations, and if the middle is broken, the final processing plant can be verified in vain. The information about the circulation process without verification is opaque and open: if the last farmer or manufacturer passes the verification, the information such as the manufacturer, weight, batch number, etc. of the goods passing through the large and medium-sized stocks is opaque.

These are several current government traceability platforms, but none of them can avoid the problem of mixing the process, and using beautiful pigs can legally present the trouble of origin in Taiwan. I think the top priority is to solve the problem of opaque sources and processes of the Ministry of Education's campus food login platform. No matter how bitter it is, we can't suffer to our children!

So I propose a solution.

The intentional traceability platform of the Council of Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the traceability platform) has the intention to trace the restaurant platform (the whole process from origin to table is transparent and open): production and marketing resume agricultural products: we connect with the production and marketing resume website of the Council of Agriculture. The website will show farmers, planting or feeding process, processing manufacturers, processing and other relevant information, and after the traceability platform We will present the manufacturer, commodity, batch number, date, weight and other information of each circulation process, so that each of them can be truly presented. Domestic agricultural products: agricultural products from farmers, processing, each circulation to the final restaurant, to the traceability platform to input the circulation of domestic agricultural products, batch number, date, weight and other information, so that each process can be truly presented. Imported agricultural products: agricultural products import manufacturers, enter the traceability platform, enter the importing country, agricultural product name, batch number, date, weight and other information, the follow-up circulation process to the restaurant, each manufacturer also needs to enter the platform input. Avoid buying one kilogram of domestic products and importing the rest.