"Measures for the Administration of Food Safety Sampling Inspection (Draft for Comments)" Publicly Solicits Opinions

The reporter learned today from the State Administration for Market Regulation that the “Management Measures for Food Safety Sampling Inspection (Draft for Public Comments)” is open for public opinion. The draft takes identifying problems and risks as the starting point for sampling inspection work, dividing food safety sampling inspection into supervisory sampling and risk sampling, each outlined in a separate chapter. It strengthens risk sampling work, broadens the entities implementing risk sampling, and clarifies the scenarios for risk sampling implementation, making the sampling and inspection more flexible, and specifies the methods for evaluating and reporting risk sampling results. At the same time, it raises the requirements for re-inspection agencies and standardizes the re-inspection work of supervisory sampling. To enhance the authority and credibility of re-inspection results, it requires that market regulation departments randomly select re-inspection agencies from those that have undertaken supervisory sampling and risk sampling tasks of the same level or higher when determining re-inspection agencies. For re-inspections of unqualified food at the level of the State Administration for Market Regulation, it is generally required that the re-inspection agency and the re-inspection applicant are not in the same provincial administrative region, ensuring that the re-inspection process is objective and neutral, avoiding local interests and administrative interference, and safeguarding the independence of the re-inspection. (CCTV News)