Summary
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(1) To strengthen agricultural product quality and safety supervision in Shaanxi Province, the provincial government has issued a set of guidelines to implement the spirit of the State Council's notice on strengthening agricultural product quality and safety supervision (Guoban Fa [2013] No. 106). The goals and tasks of the guidelines include:
(2) 1. Improving the agricultural product supervision system, enhancing supervision capabilities, strengthening law enforcement, and promoting sustainable agricultural development. The province aims to establish a three-level agricultural product quality and safety supervision, inspection, and law enforcement system within 3-5 years, with the province's agricultural product quality and safety supervision capabilities and levels ranking among the top nationwide.
(3) 2. The work measures include:
(4) - Strengthening production source supervision by establishing an agricultural product production site environmental monitoring, evaluation, protection, and restoration system, and conducting regular safety inspections. - Promoting the implementation of agricultural input product management, high-toxicity pesticide point management, and real-name purchasing and selling systems. - Establishing an agricultural input product inspection system to strengthen supervision over input product production and operation. - Implementing strict regulations on veterinary medicine withdrawal periods and pesticide safety intervals, and promoting the production and application of safe and high-quality agricultural products. - Strengthening supervision over the collection, storage, and transportation of agricultural products by establishing regulations for the management of these processes, implementing inspection and recording systems, and promoting the use of fresh-keeping agents, preservatives, and additives.
(5) 3. The guidelines also focus on improving supervision over the slaughter and dairy production industries by:
(6) - Implementing a designated entry system for slaughterhouses, strengthening on-site inspections, meat inspections, and "lean meat powder" self-inspection, and strictly enforcing quarantine regulations. - Improving the handling of dead animals, strictly enforcing the responsibility for handling dead animals. - Strengthening supervision over the production, collection, and transportation of fresh milk by implementing strict management over dairy production, collection, and transportation. - Strictly enforcing the dairy product management permit system, and strictly eliminating the collection of fresh milk from "black dens".
(7) 4. The guidelines also promote agricultural standardization production by:
(8) - Improving agricultural product quality and safety technical standards, and establishing a quality and safety supervision system that covers the entire production process. - Establishing a standardization production system that combines project support, promoting the construction of standardized gardens, animal husbandry, and aquaculture farms, and actively creating standardization demonstration counties and towns. - Establishing a "three-grade, one-tag" certification and reward system to promote the development of high-quality and safe agricultural products. - Improving the annual inspection system for non-polluting agricultural products and exit mechanisms, promoting GAP certification, and establishing a quality and safety internal control system for agricultural products.
(9) 5. The guidelines emphasize the importance of strengthening monitoring and early warning systems by:
(10) - Promoting the construction of provincial and municipal agricultural product quality and safety inspection and testing centers, establishing a monitoring system, and expanding the scope of monitoring. - Conducting regular agricultural product quality and safety inspections, and enforcing laws and regulations to punish illegal and irregular activities. - Establishing a risk warning monitoring network and database, and strengthening agricultural product quality and safety risk monitoring and early warning. - Strengthening emergency response system construction, improving emergency response plans, and establishing a mechanism for emergency response, rumor guidance, and information reporting.
(11) 6. The guidelines also call for in-depth special governance by:
(12) - Conducting a comprehensive investigation of regional, industrial, and systemic risk hidden dangers, and severely punishing cases of illegal addition, counterfeiting, and sale of counterfeit goods. - Seriously solving the problems of using high-toxicity pesticides, "lean meat powder", and banned veterinary medicines.
(13) 7. The guidelines also emphasize the need to innovate supervision mechanisms by:
(14) - Promoting the creation of agricultural product quality and safety supervision demonstration counties, and continuously innovating supervision modes and operating mechanisms. - Establishing a quality and safety tracking management system, promoting the implementation of agricultural product quality and safety site-qualified certificates, and promoting the effective connection between site-qualified certificates and market access. - Promoting the construction of credit systems, and actively conducting credit evaluations.
(15) The measures to ensure the implementation of these guidelines include:
(16) 1. Strengthening organizational leadership by:
(17) - Assigning the responsibility for agricultural product quality and safety to local governments at all levels. - Incorporating agricultural product quality and safety into important agendas, and increasing support in terms of planning, personnel, and conditions. - Incorporating agricultural product quality and safety into county and township government performance evaluations, and establishing clear evaluation measures. - Establishing a system of talks and accountability, and seriously punishing relevant personnel in the event of major agricultural product quality and safety incidents.
(18) 2. Strengthening supervisory institutions by:
(19) - Perfecting the organizational structure, increasing supervisory personnel, and establishing a three-level agricultural product quality and safety supervisory, inspection, and law enforcement system. - Strengthening the ability of township agricultural product quality and safety supervision, and establishing a system of village-level supervisory personnel. - Establishing a system of rural supervisory personnel, and strengthening source supervision.
(20) 3. Increasing investment in funding by:
(21) - Perfecting the mechanism for investing in agricultural product quality and safety, improving supporting policies, and increasing funding to ensure the smooth implementation of agricultural product quality and safety supervision. - Prioritizing agricultural product quality and safety project construction, and supporting related infrastructure, equipment, and other hardware investments. - Including supervisory, inspection, and law enforcement expenses in the financial budget, and ensuring that agricultural product quality and safety supervision requires financial support.
(22) 4. Strengthening publicity and training by:
(23) - Utilizing the strengths of agricultural technology promotion, agricultural research institutes, and higher education institutions to establish a team of agricultural product quality and safety experts, and providing comprehensive training for agricultural product quality and safety supervision personnel and agricultural product producers and operators. - Increasing the promotion of agricultural product quality and safety laws and regulations, and promoting healthy consumption. - Promoting supervisory measures and achievements, and exposing illegal and criminal activities to create a good social atmosphere for agricultural product quality and safety supervision.