Improve the standards and strengthen the monitoring of my country's food safety and nutritional conditions in the past ten years.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 27th.

Xinhua News Agency reporters Gu Tiancheng and Dong Ruifeng

Food safety and nutrition are related to the health of each family and everyone. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of my country, the monitoring of food pollution and harmful factors in China has covered 99%of counties and districts; 1,419 national standards for food safety have been released, including more than 20,000 indicators; my country's 18-44-year-old residents have significantly increased height ...

The National Health and Health Commission held a press conference on the 27th to introduce the progress of food safety and nutritional health since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Eat the "most rigorous standard"

In order to focus on solving the problem of "a lot of standards for food safety, which", for ten years, the National Health and Health Commission has formed the National Standard Review Committee with nearly 400 experts including 17 departments.

"Our committee conducted a comprehensive sorting of more than 5,000 related standards involved in the management of 15 departments in accordance with the new" Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China ". Liu Jinfeng, director of the appraisal department, said that the National Health Commission will integrate edible agricultural product safety standards, food hygiene, specification quality, and industry standards.

According to Liu Jinfeng, in recent years, in accordance with the "most rigorous standards" requirements, the National Health Commission has improved the standard development system based on risk monitoring and evaluation. At present, my country's food safety standard system is divided into four categories: general standards, product standards, production and operation specifications and inspection methods, covering the entire process from raw materials to dining tables. The four types of standards are connected to each other to control food safety risks from different angles.

Eat more assured to strengthen risk monitoring and evaluation

Let the people eat at ease and rest assured that food safety risk monitoring and assessment is a "gatekeeper". Li Ning, director of the National Food Safety Risk Evaluation Center, said that after more than ten consecutive years of organizing and implementing the monitoring and evaluation of national food safety risk, initially grasped the major food pollution status and trend of my country's major food. Bacterial pollution and new potential other risks and other food safety hazards.

Li Ning said that the National Food Safety Risk Evaluation Center launched a timely risk assessment of the hidden dangers discovered, and reported that the relevant regulatory authorities would formulate a revised limited standard in a timely manner to effectively play the role of monitoring and evaluation and early warning.

Campus food safety is the focus of attention to the whole society, and it is also a key area for food safety risk monitoring. Liu Jinfeng introduced that in recent years, my country's campus food safety situation has been steadily good. No large food safety incident involved in the campus has occurred, and there are no cases of death.

According to reports, the National Health Commission focuses on the food safety and prevent food poisoning of campus from three aspects, including dynamic research and judgment monitoring and discovering hidden dangers, and promptly notify the business education, market supervision and other departments; cooperate with relevant departments to do a good job of " The implementation of the school's food safety and nutritional health management regulations "implements the implementation of theme mission activities.

Eat more nutritious urban and rural differences gradually narrowed

The height of our residents has become higher.统计数据显示，2020年我国18-44岁居民身高分别为男性169.7厘米、女性158.0厘米，比2015年分别增加1.2厘米、0.8厘米；农村6岁以下儿童生长迟缓率由2015年的11.3%下降至5.8%. The two important data reflect the continuous improvement of the nutrition and health of residents in my country, and the differences in urban and rural areas have gradually narrowed.

It is reported that in order to strengthen the guidance of reasonable diet, the National Health and Health Commission and the National Nutrition Health Guidance Committee 17 member departments organized the implementation of the national nutrition plan and reasonable diet.

Ding Gangqiang, director of the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that the operation played a very great role in improving the nutritional status of children in poor areas. In 2011, my country began to launch a nutritional improvement plan for rural compulsory education students to provide nutritional dietary subsidies for poor rural compulsory education students. From the initial day of each study day, 3 yuan per person to increase to 5 yuan per person per study date. The monitoring results showed that the slow growth rate of students decreased from 8.0%in 2012 to 2.5%in 2021.

In order to improve the nutritional status of infants and young children in poor areas, the National Health Commission has launched children's nutrition improvement projects in poor areas since 2012, and provides 1 pack of nutrition packages every day for the 6th-24th April young children in the special difficult areas of the country. As of 2021, the project has benefited from 13.65 million children.

The relevant person in charge of the National Health and Health Commission said that in the next step, the National Health Commission will adhere to the standards of rigorous and practical standards, sensitive and efficient monitoring, evaluate scientific authority, the principle of nutrition and benefit of the people, and better serve the people's dietary safety and physical health.

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