The draft amendment of the Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Law will further compact the second trial of the relevant subject responsibility

According to Yang Heqing, a spokesman for the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the draft amendment of the Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Law is intended to be submitted to the 35th meeting of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for review.

According to the review opinions and opinions of the Standing Committee, the second review draft of the draft for review is requested to make the following main modifications:

The first is to further compact agricultural product quality and safety responsibilities of agricultural product wholesale markets, agricultural product sales enterprises, cold chain logistics enterprises, and network operators.

The second is to summarize the pilot experience of the quality and safety commitment of agricultural product quality and safety, and improve the requirements of the daily supervision and inspection of the quality and safety of agricultural products.

The third is to strengthen the coordination and cooperation of agricultural rural areas, market supervision and management and other departments.

The fourth is to strengthen the quality and safety of agricultural products and technology training and improve the awareness of quality and safety of agricultural products in the whole society.

The quality and safety of agricultural products is related to the safety of food. Yang Heqing introduced that the focus and effort of the amendment of the Agricultural Quality and Safety Law is to solve the "most rigorous standard, the strictest supervision, the most severe punishment, the most serious accountability accounting These four "strictest" requirements further clarify and compact each other's agricultural product quality and safety responsibilities.

Yang Heqing said that the amendment is mainly reflected in the following five aspects:

The first is to improve the qualified certificate system for the quality and safety commitment of agricultural products. If agricultural products are required to carry out allocation of agricultural products they have acquired, they should also issue a commitment to meet the standards. In the previous draft, the producers and sellers had requested requirements This time also requested the acquirers.

The second is to request the agricultural product wholesale market to conduct random inspection and testing of the quality and safety of agricultural products sold, and require agricultural product sales enterprises to establish a sound purchase, inspection, and acceptance system.

The third is to support the construction of cold chain logistics infrastructure in the origin of agricultural products, improve relevant standards and specifications, and regulate the quality and safety responsibilities of cold chain logistics agricultural products.

The fourth is to stipulate the responsibility for the quality and safety of agricultural products that sell agricultural products and platform operators through the network platform.

Fifth, it has strengthened the full supervision and management responsibilities of agricultural rural areas, market supervision and management and other relevant departments.

It is reported that in October 2021, the thirty -first meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress conducted the initial review of the draft amendment to the Agricultural Quality and Safety Law.

Reporter: Meng Wei

Editor: Gong Yixi

Responsible editor: Zhang Yuzhen

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