Recently, the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Pidu District, Chengdu, together with the District Agriculture and Rural Bureau, the District Public Security Bureau, and the Food Safety Office of each street (town), carried out special rectification actions for the whole chain of livestock and poultry breeding, slaughtering, harmless treatment, and meat product production and operation.
On July 9, the District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau organized a working meeting to severely crack down on illegal and criminal rectification actions in the production of meat products, and meat product production enterprises in the region participated. At the meeting, the recent domestic meat product food safety warning cases were reported, requiring meat product production enterprises in the jurisdiction to conduct a comprehensive self-inspection, strengthen the procurement management of raw and auxiliary materials, and put an end to the inconsistency between certificates, tickets, raw materials and products, the use or sale of livestock and poultry products from unknown sources, without inspection and quarantine, inspection and quarantine and other violations of laws and regulations, and earnestly do a good job in "daily control, weekly inspection, and monthly scheduling", and further consolidate the main responsibility of food safety. The participating enterprises signed a food safety commitment letter on the spot.
On July 16, the District Food Safety Office, together with the District Public Security Bureau, the District Agriculture and Rural Bureau, and the District Market Supervision Bureau, held a joint meeting on the special rectification action of meat product violations and crimes in the district. At the meeting, the member units jointly studied the spirit of the relevant documents of the special rectification action to crack down on illegal and criminal activities of meat products, and reported on the recent work, sorted out the main problems existing in the production and operation of meat products, studied and judged the food safety risk points, and reached a unified opinion on the next step.
On July 30, the District Public Security Bureau, the District Agriculture and Rural Bureau, the District Market Supervision Bureau, and the relevant streets (towns) formed an inspection team to supervise and inspect key enterprises such as Chengdu Cremo Breeding Co., Ltd., Chengdu Yandao Food Co., Ltd., Chengdu Dejun Catering Management Co., Ltd., and Chengdu Linyou Supermarket Management Co., Ltd., and focused on the whole chain of joint inspections on meat product breeding, slaughtering, production, catering, and operation. As of the end of July, a total of 184 meat product production and operation entities have been inspected in Pidu District, 24 food safety commitments have been signed by meat product production enterprises, and 38 meat-related reports have been handled.
In the next step, all member units will continue to carry out joint actions to strengthen risk consultation, problem management, illegal crackdown, execution linkage, publicity and guidance, etc., and make every effort to ensure the safety and standardization of the meat product market in Pidu District.
West China Community Daily reporter Zhang Li Photo courtesy of the Municipal Supervision Bureau