Expert: Chemical regulatory gap is an important cause of frequent food safety incidents

Wei Fusheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said on the 17th that at present, China's chemical supervision is almost at a blank, causing various types of chemicals such as “food additives” to go rampant, eventually leading to frequent food safety incidents. CCTV reporter Wang Qunjun reported.

Wei Fusheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, disclosed at the first national inspection and quarantine report that concluded today that about 100,000 chemicals used in the Chinese market are involved in various fields such as clothing, food, housing and transportation. However, supervision is almost blank. This directly threatens food safety.

Wei Fusheng: New chemicals must enter the market, enter people's lives, do risk assessment, and do animal experiments. After the experiment, to enter the market, an access permit must be obtained. Now many things do not have this threshold. The producer added this thing to add antisepsis, change taste, sell well, and add it.

Wei Fusheng stressed that many food safety incidents currently occurring are actually not just food safety issues. If we must crack down on the predicament of frequent food safety incidents, we must start from the source of regulatory chemicals.

Wei Fusheng: There are problems in the system and mechanism. The original 16 ministries are in charge of management and each of them has a period of management. However, there is no overall responsibility (the department is responsible). Then there is an inter-ministry joint meeting led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The Ministry of Environmental Protection has chemicals. The management office is in charge of one person. Tens of thousands of chemicals he came over alone? This problem is not commensurate with the situation. We will mention this suggestion in the future.