Crack down on illegal food practice
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LOCAL authorities conducted 552,000 checks on food producers, processing businesses and sellers last year, and 56,000 of them detected improper or illegal practice.
To ensure food safety, the authorities carried out 23 special campaigns targeting problems such as the illegal use of swill oil, antibiotics abuse and excessive residue of pesticide, according to Shanghai Food and Drug Administration’s annual report.
The government revoked business licenses of 37,256 companies and units, and 6,714 food safety cases saw companies fined 224 million yuan (US$35.22 million). The police handled 136 food safety cases, catching 334 suspects and 44 people were punished.
Producing counterfeit food or poor-quality food with expired materials was one of the major violations.
Four bakeries, run by bakery chain Farine, in Xuhui and Huangpu districts and the Pudong New Area, were closed because of an expired flour scandal last year.
Using illegal additives or additive abuse still exists. Officials found some eateries put poppy shells into soup or hotpot, while illegal use of chemicals in health tonics were also detected, imposing serious health risks to customers.
With the development of the Internet and quick logistics, the government also found an increase of trans-provincial crimes, which are more difficult to detect.
To step up monitoring and inspection on food safety risks, Shanghai FDA has established 750 regular monitoring centers, and some temporary monitoring centers to collect samples and undertake food inspections.
Almost all food risks are covered, as the centers have monitored 14,145 samples of food.
The risk monitoring can reflect safety conditions of local food and detect problems and risks in time, providing important evidence for local food safety inspection and management.
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