Baby milk powder will try pharmacy counter sales

On May 31 this year, the issue of infant formula for infants and young children was on the State Council's executive meeting, and in the name of the State Council, a comprehensive and specific deployment was made to improve the quality and safety of domestic infant formula milk powder.

On June 16, the General Office of the State Council forwarded the Food and Drug Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the Health and Family Planning Commission, the General Administration of Customs, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, nine ministries and commissions to further strengthen infants and young children. The opinion on the quality and safety of formula milk powder has been introduced in the history of the most stringent measures.

Yesterday, the opinions were officially released. Nine ministries and commissions held media symposiums in Beijing to implement their opinions on “practical measures” to improve the quality of formula milk powder for infants and young children.

The Health and Family Planning Commission has closely followed the international footsteps to revise the standards and improve the quality of the standards. The standards will go first. As the basis of the infant food safety assessment in China and the basis for promotion, the relevant standards must be in line with international standards, and at the same time meet the characteristics of the growth and development of infants in China.

Yesterday, Chen Rui, deputy director of the Food and Health Department of the Health and Family Planning Commission pointed out that China's standards are based on the protection of the nutritional needs of infants and young children in China, taking into account actual conditions such as industry production and regulatory capabilities, and some of the indicators are more stringent than international requirements. In the next step, with the progress of scientific research and risk assessment, the Health and Family Planning Commission will continue to improve infant milk powder standards, better meet infant and child growth and food safety needs, and protect infant and children's physical and mental development. At the same time, it will closely follow the dynamic changes of international standards, strengthen exchanges and cooperation with other countries, carry out follow-up evaluation of the implementation of standards, and timely organize the revision and improvement of relevant standards.

AQSIQ imported foreign milk powder on the black list is no longer trade exchanges in 2012 as an example, in addition to China's domestic infant formula milk powder about 600,000 tons, imported infant formula milk powder is about 90,000 tons. So, how to protect the quality of this part of milk powder? Yesterday, Lin Wei, deputy director of the Import and Export Food Safety Bureau of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, proposed five "strict" measures.

>> Five "strict"

First of all, the overseas production companies that export strictly infant formula milk powder to China will be registered and registered before May 1, 2014. This means that infant milk powder produced by overseas manufacturing enterprises that have not been registered at that time will not be able to enter the Chinese market;

If the penalties of a strictly untrustworthy company are found to be illegal or insincere in the production and operation of imported infant formula, they will be included on the “black list” and are not allowed to engage in the import and export trade of milk powder. Loss of trust, it is difficult to move."

Strictly imported infant formula milk powder quality safety requirements, infant formula milk powder with a shelf life of less than 3 months is not allowed to import, imported infant formula milk powder must be the smallest retail package sold directly to consumers, large packaging is not allowed import;

Strict implementation of import inspections requires that the Chinese label of imported infant formula milk powder be printed directly on the minimum sales package before entering the country and shall not be attached in the country;

Strictly carry out the record of importers and exporters, publish the list of importers and exporters on the Internet for consumer supervision.

The Ministry of Agriculture has invested 300 million yuan annually to supply dairy cows with good grass. In the entire chain of quality and safety for infant formula milk powder, the Ministry of Agriculture focuses on ensuring the safety of milk sources. Yesterday, Wang Feng, deputy inspector of the Animal Husbandry Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, introduced that the Ministry of Agriculture will accelerate the promotion of standardized scale farming of dairy cows.

Wang Feng introduced that the funding for this project has been increased from 500 million yuan to 1 billion yuan this year. It will focus on the infant milk powder production base of infants and infants, and standardize the renovation of dairy farms, milking parlors and quality inspection facilities. Promote the level of dairy farming. At the same time, this year will speed up the implementation of the dairy cow improvement plan, carry out the subsidy of cows and the determination of production performance, and provide technical services and guidance to dairy farmers. In addition, in strengthening the supervision of milk stations and transportation vehicles, special remediation will be carried out with the focus on infant milk powder companies' related milk stations and transportation vehicles. Strict feed, veterinary drugs and other inputs supervision. At the same time, “two-coverage” will be implemented in the monitoring of raw milk: all milk stations will be covered, and the inspection targets will cover all illegal additives released by the country.

Finally, invest 300 million yuan each year to build a 500,000-mu high-quality, high-quality demonstration base, and improve production and sales, and promote the cooperation between the base for indica and the dairy cow breeding base of infants and young children, and allow dairy cows to eat good grass and produce good milk. Milk source quality.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has suspended the approval of new projects and committed to mergers and reorganizations. Prior to this, it was reported that once the relevant opinions of the State Council were issued, new infant formula milk powder enterprises would not be approved. In response, Gao Fu, deputy inspector of the Consumer Products Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology yesterday confirmed this, but he also pointed out that the suspension of the approval is temporary, and that the new infant milk will not be approved within two years of the 12th Five-Year Plan period. Powder Enterprise Project.

In the coming period, we will concentrate on the merger and reorganization of 127 infant formula milk powder companies in China. At the same time, for the newly built and reformed (expanded) projects since 2011, a four-month review and clean-up of infant formula milk powder companies (projects) will be carried out, focusing on strengthening the initial scale of construction projects, the necessary conditions for funders, and supporting milking. Sources, rationality of layout, standardization of process equipment, advanced environmental protection energy consumption, and other aspects of clean-up audits, and resolutely eliminate out-of-bid companies (projects). Gao said that in this process, it will support the expansion and expansion of some companies, but the premise is still mergers and reorganizations.

The State Food and Drug Administration Produces "Five Inaccurate" Production Bars to "Seven"

Yesterday, Teng Chicai, deputy director of the State Food and Drug Administration, explained that for the current chaos in infant formula milk powder industry, strict requirements have been put forward for “five not allowed”, and related production companies are not allowed to entrust processing; no OEM production is allowed. No batch production is allowed; infant formula milk powder of different brands cannot be produced with the same formula; raw milk (powder) other than cow's milk or sheep's milk (powder) is not allowed to produce infant formula milk powder. Offenders prohibit production and sales.

It is reported that after the adjustment at the end of June this year, the Food and Drug Administration will take over the work of the unified review and approval of the production license for dairy products and infant formula milk powder that was formerly under the responsibility of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

Flow trial pharmacy counter sales through infant milk powder Deputy Secretary of the State Food and Drug Administration Teng-Ji-Ci proposed that the next step will be infant formula milk powder counter sales, trial pharmacy counter sales.

Teng Jiacai explained that the Food and Drug Administration conducted extensive investigations and studies to understand the situation in relevant countries and regions. For example, infant formula milk powder in Hong Kong is sold in pharmacies. Teng Jiacai said that the purpose of piloting pharmacy counters to sell baby milk powder is to make pharmacy management more rigorous and standardized. Milk powder sales in pharmacies can provide better system protection and quality assurance.

In addition, the next step will also require other places to counter sales of infant formula milk powder areas so that hygiene conditions, temperature control, and preservation conditions will be improved. “Imagine that the powdered milk is sold in stalls. If it exceeds 30°C in the summer, it will deteriorate in a few days.” Teng said that selling in a good business environment can ensure quality in sales. He stated that he hoped to find a set of standardized management systems through trial and error. In addition, the State Food and Drug Administration will also require the operating units to strengthen the management of product sales. For babies and infants formula milk powder that has a shelf life of less than one month, notice must be taken or other measures must be taken in advance. In terms of systems, the system of first-line compensation and recovery will be established to explore the establishment of a food safety liability insurance system.