Yao Ke: Internet food safety supervision is almost vacuum

Yao Ke, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Central Committee Member of the Agriculture and Industry Party and Vice Chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), last year, a documentary "China on the tip of the tongue" has made Chinese cuisine popular across the country. According to statistics, more than 5.84 million people searched for specialty snacks on Taobao for 5 days, and there were more than 7.29 million transactions.

The strong purchase and sales of online food also caused concerns about the food safety of representatives of the two associations. Yao Ke, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Central Committee Member of the Agriculture and Industry Party, and vice chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, put forward a proposal for "Strengthening the Measures for the Supervision of Food Safety in the Internet Industry.

Yao Ke believes that, inconsistent with the hot sales of the food network, "the safety of food sales on the Internet is almost in a 'vacuum' state."

He analyzed the problems mainly, first, the laws and regulations of the network food market supervision are not perfect. “The “Food Safety Law” and its implementation regulations do not explicitly include 'Internet food sellers' in the subject of legal supervision. At the national level, only the “Commodity Trading and Related Services” implemented by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce on July 1, 2010 The "Provisional Measures for Behavior Management" also does not specify the food safety management of network operations."

Second, there are many security risks in the operation and sales of online food products. Due to the fact that the authentic information of online food business operators, especially personal food online shops, cannot be verified and confirmed, resulting in the widespread existence of online food business operators without business licenses and food circulation licenses, food online shops have become counterfeit and “three non-food products”. One of the main ways.

“Network food business operators often store food and other items, and may even be mixed with toxic and hazardous materials. Their delivery is mainly achieved through express delivery, often mixed with other goods, and requires special storage and transportation conditions such as cold chain. Can not meet the requirements.” Yao Ke pointed out that the network of food sales are still fraudulent, product labeling is not standardized, false exaggeration to promote consumer awareness, the proliferation of large-scale illegal food marketing professional website and other issues.

In this regard, Yao Ke suggested that the state should pay attention to the lack of laws on the safety of online food operations, improve and perfect the regulatory requirements, introduce contract management methods, and stipulate that network transaction platform service providers and network food operators sign food safety management guidance, responsibilities, and obligations. The agreement on delisting and other contents shall establish a network of food handlers' archives, and be responsible for the preservation and preservation of information and transaction data released by the operators on the Internet; it shall continue to strengthen the supervision of food safety in the online market, and the regulatory authorities shall improve the network food business operators. Access thresholds, full implementation of the online highlights operating system.