Since the CPC 18th National Congress,the Party Central Committee with President Xi Jinping as the core has upgraded guarantee of food safety to the level of national strategy,and an important position of state affairs administration. President Xi Jinping has made important instructions and comments on several occasions,requiring that food safety is regarded as a significant political task,Party committees and governments have equal responsibilities,and the most rigorous standards,the strictest supervision,the severest punishment,and the most serious accountability are carried out to ensure “safety on tongue tips” for the public. Therefore,the Party Central Committee and the Sate Council have made a series of great decisions and arrangements. Party committees and governments at all levels have been conscientiously carrying out the spirit of President Xi Jinping’s important instructions and comments and decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the Sate Council,have paid markedly growing attention to food safety work,and have been making more efforts in it,thus the overall situations has been steady and for the better.
With a view to making an overall exhibition of the food safety situations in Hebei Province,an objective assessment of the food safety guarantee performance of Hebei Province,a deep analysis of problems and causes existing in the food safety work,and an exploratory study of development paths and governance modes of food safety examples,the Food Safety Committee Office of Hebei Provincial Government,and Hebei Administration for Market Regulation,together with Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Hebei Province,Department of Public Security of Hebei Province,Health Commission of Hebei Province,Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Hebei Province,Shijiazhuang Customs District,Hebei Academy for Social Sciences,etc.,jointly wrote Annual Report on Food Safety of Hebei(2019)(hereinafter called the Report in short).
The Report falls into the three parts of General Report,Quality Safety Reports and Special Reports. General Report makes an overall exhibition of the food safety situations in Hebei Province. Quality Safety Reports are comprised of the six survey reports,analyze quality safety situations of vegetables,livestock products,aquatic products,fruits,food-related products,and foods of import and export in Hebei Province,make a deep analysis of existing problems,and put forward solution proposals. Special Reports,covering existing problems and solution research in development of food industry,establishment and improvement of food safety laws and regulations,surveys of public satisfaction for food safety,food safety guarantee for significant events,technical support for standards for emerging food industry,and food safety liability insurance,etc.,make a deep study of the food safety work of Hebei Province from several perspectives,and conduct a pragmatic study of front-edge research programs of the food safety. The three parts of the Report are supplementary to each other,and link selected points with entire areas,so as to provide scientific references for the public having an overall and deep understanding of the present situations of the food safety in Hebei Province.
The Report mainly has below characteristics:
1.Being comprehensive. The Report makes a systematic analysis of the quality safety situations of food-related industries ranging from agricultural products to food industry in Hebei Province,and an overall exhibition of the food safety situations in Hebei Province,being important information to assess and research food safety situations and development at provincial level.
2.Being objective. The data used in General Report,Quality Safety Reports and Special Reports all comes from first-hand materials of functional departments,or is summarization and abstracts of materials provided by relevant functional departments,and reflects the overall situations of food safety in Hebei Province accurately and objectively,being an important channel for governmental relevant departments to make discussion and arrangement and the public to get to know information concerned.
3.Being targeted. The Report,problem-oriented,makes a deep analysis and study of the food safety situations in Hebei Province,explores important theoretical and practical issues facing the food safety supervision in Hebei Province,and summarizes innovative practices and useful experience in the food safety work,thus pushing forward the promotion of the food safety work in Hebei Province both theoretically and practically.
Research and practices in food safety is a process of continuous exploration and improvement. Restricted by various objective conditions,the book still has lots of defects. We appreciate valuable comments from other experts,scholars and professionals for its further revision and improvement.