The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security: Since the beginning of this year, public security organs across the country have paid close attention to the "urgent, difficult, and longing" problem of food safety for the people, and continued to carry out the "Kunlun 2023" special action to severely crack down on outstanding food safety crimes. 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".
Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Public Security, in conjunction with relevant departments, has continued to carry out special governance of health food and edible agricultural products, cracked down on the abuse of food additives and agricultural and veterinary drugs, illegal addition of health functional food, production and sale of sick and dead livestock and poultry, and other prominent food safety crimes, and deployed and carried 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) to focus on solving cases, knocking down a number of criminal gangs, arresting a number of ringleaders, and exposing a number of industry "unspoken rules" , effectively cut off the criminal chain, and effectively maintain the order of the online and offline food market.
According to reports, in the work, the public security organs give full play to the advantages of special work, and actively innovate 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 normalized random sampling inspections in high-risk areas and key places, and find clues to problems in a timely manner;We 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 always maintain a high-pressure and hard-hitting posture against outstanding food safety crimes, continue to promote the "Kunlun" special action, and actively cooperate with relevant departments to increase the intensity of source control, and strive to make the people eat safer, more assured and healthier.
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.