Since the beginning of this year, the public security organs across the country have conscientiously implemented the "four strictest" requirements of the general secretary on food safety, closely combined with theme education, paid close attention to the "urgent, difficult and longing" problems of food safety of the people, and continued to carry out the "Kunlun 2023" special action to severely crack down on outstanding food safety criminal activities. Up to now, public security organs across the country have cracked more than 10,000 cases of food safety crimes and arrested 1 criminal suspectMore than 40,000 have effectively cracked down on and deterred illegal crimes, and made every effort to protect the people's "safety on the tip of the tongue".
The Ministry of Public Security, in conjunction with relevant departments, continues to carry out special governance of health food and edible agricultural products, cracking down on outstanding food safety crimes such as the abuse of food additives and agricultural and veterinary drugs, the illegal addition of health functional foods, and the production and sale of sick and dead livestock and poultry, and deploying and carrying out food "two supers and one non" (that is, the abuse of additives beyond the scope and limit, and the illegal addition of toxic and harmful non-edible substances) crimes to solve the case, knock out a number of criminal gangs, arrest a group of ringleaders, and expose a number of industry "unspoken rules" , effectively cut off the criminal chain, and effectively maintain the order of the online and offline food market. In their work, the public security organs have given full play to the advantages of special work, and actively innovated anti-crime measures in view of the many hidden cases and difficult problems in the field of food safety. Relying on the public security food rapid inspection technology room, carry out regular random sampling inspections in high-risk areas and key places, and discover clues to problems in a timely mannerWe will further promote the intelligent construction and application of big data in the investigation of food crimes, and effectively improve the ability of accurate detection and precise crackdownContinuously improve the law enforcement linkage mechanism with the administrative department, two-way notification of food safety risks and hidden dangers, jointly solve a number of technical problems in cracking down on the crime of illegally adding new derivatives in health functional foods, and actively promote the transformation of the food safety governance model to pre-prevention and upgrading, and make the execution connection mechanism closer and more efficient.
The relevant person in charge of the Food and Drug Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that the public security organs will adhere to the people-centered development idea in accordance with the deployment requirements of the Food Safety Committee, actively comply with the new expectations and new requirements of the people, and always maintain a high-pressure and hard-hitting posture against outstanding food safety crimes.
Typical cases of public security organs cracking down on food safety crimes
1.The public security organs in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province cracked the case of Liu and others illegally adding new derivatives to produce and sell toxic and harmful food. In July 2023, according to the clues reported by the market supervision department, the Suzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau detected a case of illegally adding new derivatives to produce and sell toxic and harmful food, arrested 80 criminal suspects, and seized more than 60 tons of food involved in the case at the scene. After investigation, the criminal suspect Liu and others used a registered food company as a cover to produce a large number of toxic and harmful foods with illegal addition of dicsoctenoline ingredients and serious diarrhea-causing functions for external sales. In the course of the investigation and handling of the case, the public security organs paid close attention to the crime of illegally adding new substances in the food field, strengthened coordination and cooperation with the administrative departments, tested and determined the properties of the substances involved in the case, and organized experts to demonstrate and determine their toxicity, so as to ensure that the case was accurately characterized.
2.The Harbin public security organs in Heilongjiang Province cracked the case of Yang and others making and selling sick and dead beef. In June 2023, according to clues found in the work, the Harbin Municipal Public Security Bureau detected a case of making and selling sick and dead beef, knocked out 5 criminal gangs, arrested 42 criminal suspects, and seized a large number of sick and dead beef and products at the scene. After investigation, the criminal suspect Yang and other criminal gangs used the operation of a regular slaughterhouse as a cover, colluded with the employees of the harmless treatment site, purchased a large number of sick and dead cattle at low prices for a long time, and sold them as regular beef products after slaughtering and dividing. After the case is cracked, the public security organs will promptly notify the local administrative departments of the problems and loopholes discovered, actively promote the strengthening of livestock and poultry slaughtering and quarantine supervision, improve the system, and plug the loopholes.
3.The public security organs in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, cracked the case of Guan Moumou and others making and selling toxic and harmful food. In August 2023, according to clues found in the work, the Yangjiang Municipal Public Security Bureau detected a case of making and selling toxic and harmful food, arrested 20 suspects, and seized 35 tons of problematic chicken feet and raw materials at the scene. After investigation, the criminal suspect Guan Moumou and others registered and established a food company, abused hydrogen peroxide disinfectant powder and other substances to soak chicken feet and sell them to the outside world.
4.The public security organs in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province cracked the case of Bo Moumou and others who produced and sold eggs with veterinary drugs exceeding the standard. In September 2023, according to the clues reported by the market supervision department, the Taizhou Municipal Public Security Bureau detected a case of making and selling eggs with excessive veterinary drugs, arrested 11 criminal suspects, and seized a batch of eggs with excessive veterinary drugs at the scene. After investigation, the criminal suspect Bo Moumou established a professional cooperative for laying hen breeding to purchase eggs with excessive antibiotic content from laying hen farmers for external sales. In response to the abuse of antibiotics in such breeding links, the public security organs will continue to intensify the crackdown, actively cooperate with the administrative departments to rectify the "unspoken rules" of the industry, and effectively protect the quality and safety of edible agricultural products.
5.The public security organs in Liangshan, Sichuan Province cracked the case of Zhang and others making and selling counterfeit and shoddy honey. In June 2023, according to the clues found in the work, the Liangshan Prefecture Public Security Bureau quickly detected a case of making and selling counterfeit and shoddy honey, arrested 49 criminal suspects, and seized 20 tons of finished honey, raw materials and toning additives at the scene. After investigation, the criminal suspect Zhang and others illegally added lemon yellow to the purchased foreign honey, pretending to be the high-quality agricultural product "Daliang Mountain Native Honey" in Daliang Mountain, and selling it through channels such as "Internet celebrity" live broadcast. For such cases, the public security organs will actively strengthen the criminal protection of intellectual property rights of edible agricultural products, severely crack down on infringement and counterfeiting crimes in accordance with the law, and promote the administrative departments to strengthen source governance and comprehensive management, so as to create a good food safety environment for rural revitalization.
Typical examples of public security organs in maintaining food safety
1.Beijing adheres to the concept of "four actions" and deepens cooperation in the field of food safety. The Beijing public security organs continued to deepen the work concept of "professionally driven, all-police action, departmental linkage, and mass mobilization", and promoted the establishment of a "public security + administrative" law enforcement cooperation joint conference system with the Municipal Public Security Bureau as the convening unit and 17 administrative departments participating, and established a working system such as industry management coordination meeting, collaborative sharing of information clues, collaborative research and judgment of risk intelligence, collaborative response and disposal, collaborative guarantee of technical support, and collaborative release of publicity information, so as to ensure that the rights and responsibilities of law enforcement cooperation are clear, smooth operation, and Strong protection. Since the beginning of this year, the administrative department and the public security organs have shared more than 80 basic data in the field of food safety, filed and investigated 55 criminal cases according to the clues transmitted by the administrative departments, and coordinated the market supervision departments to store more than 110,000 items involved in the case relying on the "public warehouse" mechanism, effectively solving the problem of storing bulk items.
2.Hangzhou, Zhejiang, innovates "digital and intelligent policing" to protect the safety of the people. The public security organs in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province focused on the main responsibility and main business of cracking down on food crimes, keeping a close eye on prominent criminal activities such as illegal slaughtering and illegal smuggling of imported frozen meat, and worked with the agricultural and rural departments to innovate the use of new technologies and new means such as AI artificial intelligence to break through departmental data barriers, develop and apply actual combat models, and realize intelligent early warning of illegal and criminal acts of illegal slaughtering, successfully cracked more than 30 meat product cases, and promptly cut off a number of illegal transportation, acquisition, slaughtering, The gray industrial chain integrating sales effectively curbs the flow of problematic meat products to the people's tables.
3.Ningbo, Zhejiang, strengthened the connection of inspection and testing, and escorted food safety. The public security organs in Ningbo, Zhejiang, together with the market supervision department, have improved the mechanisms of police-enterprise cooperation and execution linkage, and built a food and drug environmental rapid inspection laboratory with the largest agricultural and sideline products logistics center in Ningbo as a sample bank, forming a food safety intelligent governance path of "risk early warning in advance, risk blocking during the event, and closed-loop joint treatment after the event". Through daily testing, special sampling, etc., the "first pass" of source sampling and rapid inspection of meat, poultry, eggs and vegetables covering the whole city and radiating the surrounding areas is good. In accordance with the collaborative rapid inspection mode of "department initiation demand, company organization and practice, and synchronous rapid collection and rapid inspection", the timeliness of case handling is effectively improved. At the same time, a food safety risk early warning center has been set up to smooth sharing channels, deepen early warning research and judgment, and help the competent authorities in daily supervision and source management.
4.Suzhou, Anhui Province, deepened the connection of executions and improved the effectiveness of the crackdown. The Suzhou Public Security Bureau and the market supervision department in Anhui Province have jointly established a "Execution Convergence Coordination Office" with substantive operation, creating a new benign promotion model of "simultaneous filing" of criminal investigation and administrative law enforcement, and further improving the quality and efficiency of the fight against food crimes. Since the establishment of the "Cooperative Office", the public security and the market have sent personnel to station at the same time, joint logistics law enforcement, joint office, efficient operation of case transfer, inspection and identification, and the detection of water-injected meat has been completed within 7 hours, and 6 cases of water-injected meat crimes have been continuously detected, 113 criminal suspects have been arrested, and 8 criminal gangs have been eliminated. At the same time, it gathered the information and business data of the city's relevant platforms, organized special personnel to sort out and screen, handled cases of endangering food safety throughout the year, and the number of clues increased significantly year-on-year, which effectively deterred food crimes such as water-injected meat, and was widely praised by the public.
5.Changsha, Hunan Province innovated the linkage working mechanism of inspection and crackdown, and promoted the transformation of food safety to pre-prevention. The public security organs of Changsha, Hunan Province, together with the market supervision department, have established a food inspection and execution connection laboratory to ensure that they are called and inspected within 24 hours, and an inspection report with legal effect is issued within 3 working days. Adhere to prevention first, move the gate forward, in view of the focus of work, time nodes, social hot spots, combined with complaints and reports and administrative department data, to carry out "monthly special" market sampling, this year to complete more than 2,100 batches of sampling, push more than 140 case clues. Actively carry out technical research, develop 5 detection methods such as screening method for new structural analogues of nafil, and obtain 2 utility model patents to provide technical support for food and drug detection and detection. 
*丨Qinghai Public Security.
Editor-in-charge丨Gesang Redan.