Waste Oil Is Threatening People's Life
- By Amanda Xia
- Published 09/21/2011
- Food and Drink
- Unrated
Last week, the Ministry of Public Security Command uncovered the criminal cases of waste oil production and sales. It shocked the nation. The production scale is beyond people's imagination. Why the industrial production activities are there in the long term? Why did the local food regulatory agencies not fulfill their regulatory responsibilities?
China's food safety law clearly stipulates that the standards of food safety should be for the purpose of protecting public health. The food safety standards should include requirements of the products of pathogenic microorganisms, pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues, heavy metals, contaminants and other hazards to human health limited material.
Why waste oil containing carcinogens was identified as "qualified product" in the detection of technical supervision and inspection department? Are he business administration and food and drug supervision and management departments and the quality supervision in the place where large-scale production of waste oil business located fulfilling their statutory duties?
The illegal cooking oil incident reflects the weakness of China's food supervision. If you do not try to reform the country's food regulatory system, then the consumers will be in danger and no protection. A few years ago in order to strengthen the technical supervision of the supervision and inspection department, we implemented the "vertical management" system. It now appears that
this does not solve the phenomenon of local protectionism in the food regulation reform. But there have been the problem of asymmetric obligations in law enforcement powers and regulatory.
Quality supervision and quarantine authorities have enforcement powers, but without a corresponding regulatory obligations. Food safety law gives the executive departments of quality supervision inspection and quarantine enforcement powers, but without corresponding statutory and regulatory obligations. This leads to the food regulatory staff ignore the crimes in the regulatory activities.
Therefore, without increasing the food regulatory liability, we can find a fundamental solution to China's food safety problems. Waste oils tested the vulnerability of China's food regulatory system and also revealed that China's food regulatory laws have the deep-rooted problems.
Some commentators want to learn from experiences of other countries, such as the acquisition by a professional waste oil refining companies for aviation fuel. Or the government can establish a specialized production and operation institutions and do a unified recycling of waste oil for re-use of resources and so on.
Frankly, these recommendations are lack of feasibility of in our country, because the problem of waste oil is not a technical problem, but a food safety regulatory issue. It is not a problem of the reuse of resources, but rather a problem of imbalance in the rights and obligations. Only by strengthening the responsibility of food safety regulators can we ultimately ensure food safety.
China's food safety law clearly stipulates that the standards of food safety should be for the purpose of protecting public health. The food safety standards should include requirements of the products of pathogenic microorganisms, pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues, heavy metals, contaminants and other hazards to human health limited material.
Why waste oil containing carcinogens was identified as "qualified product" in the detection of technical supervision and inspection department? Are he business administration and food and drug supervision and management departments and the quality supervision in the place where large-scale production of waste oil business located fulfilling their statutory duties?
The illegal cooking oil incident reflects the weakness of China's food supervision. If you do not try to reform the country's food regulatory system, then the consumers will be in danger and no protection. A few years ago in order to strengthen the technical supervision of the supervision and inspection department, we implemented the "vertical management" system. It now appears that
Quality supervision and quarantine authorities have enforcement powers, but without a corresponding regulatory obligations. Food safety law gives the executive departments of quality supervision inspection and quarantine enforcement powers, but without corresponding statutory and regulatory obligations. This leads to the food regulatory staff ignore the crimes in the regulatory activities.
Therefore, without increasing the food regulatory liability, we can find a fundamental solution to China's food safety problems. Waste oils tested the vulnerability of China's food regulatory system and also revealed that China's food regulatory laws have the deep-rooted problems.
Some commentators want to learn from experiences of other countries, such as the acquisition by a professional waste oil refining companies for aviation fuel. Or the government can establish a specialized production and operation institutions and do a unified recycling of waste oil for re-use of resources and so on.
Frankly, these recommendations are lack of feasibility of in our country, because the problem of waste oil is not a technical problem, but a food safety regulatory issue. It is not a problem of the reuse of resources, but rather a problem of imbalance in the rights and obligations. Only by strengthening the responsibility of food safety regulators can we ultimately ensure food safety.
Amanda Xia
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