Our province has issued the key work arrangements for food and drug safety in 2018

　　Recently, the Provincial Government Office issued a notice on the "Anhui Province 2018 Food and Drug Safety Key Work Arrangements," outlining specific requirements for this year's food and drug safety key work in ten aspects: improving the legal and regulatory system, strengthening source governance, strengthening the entire process of supervision, strictly controlling risks and hidden dangers, promoting transformation and upgrading, severely punishing illegal crimes, strengthening technical support, building a social co-governance system, improving the regulatory system, and fully implementing responsibilities.

　　First, accelerate the improvement of the food and drug safety legal and regulatory system. The notice requires improving the provincial food and drug safety legal and regulatory system, promoting the establishment, amendment, abolition, and interpretation of relevant food and drug safety regulations, improving the food safety standards system, doing a good job in the publicity, implementation, and follow-up evaluation of food safety standards, and carrying out research work on the standards of "Top Ten Anhui Medicines" local medicinal materials.

　　Second, strengthen the source governance of edible agricultural products. The notice emphasizes promoting a detailed investigation of soil pollution, clarifying the area and distribution of soil pollution in farmland across the province by the end of 2018; strengthening the governance of heavy metal pollution in grain, promoting soil pollution governance and remediation projects, accelerating the adjustment of the planting structure of heavy metal-contaminated farmland; continuing to carry out special rectification of pesticide and veterinary drug residues, improving the livestock and poultry slaughter management system, increasing the intensity of scientific breeding and cultivation technology training, strengthening the monitoring and supervision of grain quality and safety, and promoting the construction of demonstration zones for the quality and safety of exported food and agricultural products.

　　Third, strengthen the entire process of supervision of food and drug safety. The notice requires fully promoting risk-based dynamic assessment and classification supervision, continuing to strengthen daily supervision around "one large and three small three key areas," achieving 100% coverage of supervision and inspection of licensed food production and operation enterprises, making every effort to promote the registration of small food workshops, with a registration rate of 50%; implementing opinions on improving the quality and safety level of the catering industry, carrying out in-depth pilot work on the connection between the origin approval and market access of edible agricultural products, establishing and improving a long-term mechanism for comprehensive governance of gutter oil, strengthening the supervision of food salt safety during the transition period of salt industry reform, and continuously carrying out special rectification activities for rural food safety, schools and surrounding areas (including preschool institutions), and food and health food fraud and false advertising. The notice emphasizes the full implementation of quality management specifications for the production and operation of drugs and medical devices, achieving 100% coverage of supervision and inspection of licensed drug and medical device production and operation enterprises and users, and strengthening the supervision of new business models such as online food and drug operations.

　　Fourth, strictly control food and drug safety risks and hidden dangers. The notice emphasizes improving the system for investigating and preventing food and drug safety risks and hidden dangers, conducting food and drug safety supervision and inspection and risk monitoring, and strengthening the reporting and monitoring of adverse drug reactions, adverse events of medical devices, and adverse reactions of cosmetics; conducting routine monitoring (risk monitoring) and supervision and inspection of agricultural product quality and safety, implementing a reporting system for major sensitive information, strengthening public opinion monitoring, and properly handling emergencies.

　　Fifth, promote the transformation and upgrading of the food and drug industry. The notice requires promoting the industrialized, scaled, and standardized development of agriculture and improving the mechanism for rewarding trustworthiness and punishing untrustworthiness; organizing the implementation of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" for food industry development and the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" for the development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the food and pharmaceutical industry; implementing opinions on deepening the reform of the review and approval system to encourage innovation in drugs and medical devices, promoting the construction of demonstration bases for the "Top Ten Anhui Medicines" industry and the consistency evaluation of the quality and efficacy of generic drugs; implementing opinions on accelerating the development of cold chain logistics to ensure food safety and promote consumption upgrades, and implementing the import and export food safety improvement project.

　　Sixth, severely punish illegal and criminal acts related to food and drugs. The notice emphasizes maintaining a high-pressure stance on severely cracking down on illegal and criminal acts related to food and drug safety, establishing a joint law enforcement mechanism between departments during the transition period of salt industry reform, increasing the publicity of key cases, implementing a mechanism for the connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, improving the working mechanism of the joint meeting, and strengthening the police force in cracking down on illegal and criminal acts related to food and drug safety.

　　Seventh, strengthen the construction of the food and drug safety technical support system. The notice requires continuing to promote the standardized construction of grassroots market supervision offices (food and drug supervision offices), achieving a 100% compliance rate by the end of 2018, and building a food and drug inspection and testing system at the provincial, municipal, regional county, and general county levels; continuing to implement the agricultural product quality and safety and food safety livelihood projects, improving the grain quality and safety inspection and monitoring capabilities, and supporting the research of relevant scientific and technological projects related to food and drug safety.

　　Eighth, build a social co-governance system for food and drug safety. The notice emphasizes continuously organizing and holding publicity activities such as "Food Safety Publicity Week," "Food Safety Jiang Huai Trip," and "Safe Medication Month," and increasing the publicity and implementation of regulations such as the "Anhui Provincial Food Safety Regulations" and the management methods for the production and operation of "three small" foods; improving and perfecting the food and drug complaint and reporting system, and supporting public participation in food and drug safety governance.

　　Ninth, improve and perfect the food and drug safety regulatory system. The notice emphasizes implementing the important decisions and deployments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on deepening institutional and administrative system reforms and further deepening market supervision system reforms. Implementing the "four responsibilities" of food and drug safety work, places implementing comprehensive law enforcement should regard food and drug safety supervision as a primary responsibility, comprehensively strengthening grassroots food and drug safety supervision, and improving the "four members" system for grassroots food and drug safety supervision.

　　Tenth, fully implement the food and drug safety responsibility system. The notice requires strictly implementing the opinions on the joint responsibility of the Party and government for food safety, incorporating food and drug safety work into the national economic and social development plans at and above the county level, and including food and drug safety funds in the government budget at the corresponding level; implementing the assessment and appraisal methods for food and drug safety work, incorporating food and drug safety work into the comprehensive assessment of Party and government leadership teams and leading cadres, and seriously investigating and pursuing the responsibilities of dereliction of duty in major food and drug safety incidents according to law and discipline.