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Special planning (10) The most needed Mother's Day gift - the lifelong responsibility system for food supervision

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Special planning (10) The most needed Mother's Day gift - the lifelong responsibility system for food supervision (Qin Qing) Recently, the "Sunbird" Chinese website...

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(Qin Qing) Recently, the "Sunbird" Chinese website reprinted two pieces of news: 'Foreign milk powder' entering China requires a 'foreign identity' certification and" Chinese officials have made several announcements within a week to crack down on food safety crimes." It’s Mother’s Day and I have a lot of emotions. What is the most precious gift of being a mother? Your child's health! After reading the report that "foreign milk powder" needs to show "foreign identity" certification when entering China, I think the media seems to have shifted the news perspective. Chinese mothers do not care whether their children are eating foreign milk powder or local milk powder, but whether their children are eating nutritious and healthy milk powder. China’s food supervision system can’t even guarantee this? Then it would be more appropriate to change "Mother's Day" to "China's National Humiliation Day". Should we work on various certifications for milk powder? Was there no certification at all before? If so, why do milk powder problems still occur so frequently? On behalf of "Chinese Moms", I want to ask the government for a Mother's Day gift - a "lifelong responsibility system for food supervision!" We don't want an action, and we not only want to punish those criminals in the food chain, but also a healthy system that guarantees "food safety." This system is not only food safety law, not only criminals in the food chain, but also has a very important role - food supervisors. Mothers have handed over the power of censorship to the government. If the supervisors do not care about the lives of ordinary people, then mothers should also hold these malfeasancers to justice. Food supervision has many links, such as: procurement, processing, transportation, and retail. Real-name records should be kept for every step being supervised, and food supervision responsibilities should be lifelong. Some supervisors may be negligent in their work, and it is understandable that a few or dozens of inferior products pass inspection. If a large number of inferior products appear on the market, what are the supervisors doing? An occasional oversight? Or are you complicit? Their punishment should not be "punishment", but should be upgraded to "punishment". When I searched Google for "lifetime responsibility system for food supervision", I only saw the punishment for food criminals. I hope that the supervisors who formulate these laws and regulations will not "forget" their responsibilities. Only when the entire supervision system is sound and functioning, then food safety issues will not become an action or movement. I hope that next Mother’s Day is a happy one and that Chinese mothers can really get this most precious gift.

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