In a farmers' market in Henan, an ordinary vendor named Ms. Zhang was ordered by the Municipal Supervision Bureau for selling bananas with excessive pesticide residuesThe fine of 50,000 yuan has aroused widespread public concern. This not only put this small business operator with a low level of education in a predicament, but also triggered in-depth thinking about the implementation and fairness of food safety regulations.
Ms. Zhang and her husband moved from the countryside to the city to provide for their daughter's high school, rented a fruit stall with the help of relatives, and worked hard early and late at night. However, a seemingly ordinary market supervision random inspection changed the trajectory of their lives. The staff of the Municipal Supervision Bureau found that the bananas they sold contained excessive amounts of "pyraclostrobin", a food with excessive pesticide residues, which directly violated the provisions of Article 34 of the Food Safety Law and may cause harm to human health.
Faced with a huge fine, Ms. Zhang felt extremely aggrieved. She stressed that she did not know the law and that the bananas were wholesaled from the supplier and not intentionally. Nevertheless, Article 124 of the Food Safety Law clearly stipulates that even if the value of the goods is less than 10,000 yuan, even if the value of the goods is less than 10,000 yuan, the illegal production and operation of products containing food additives that exceed the food safety standards or endangering human health will face a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan. The SAMR fined him 5 in accordance with this provision50,000 yuan, which strictly follows the law.
In the end, after hearing the case, the court held that the administrative penalty of the AMR complied with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations, and rejected Ms. Zhang's claim. This verdict undoubtedly reaffirms China's zero-tolerance attitude towards food safety issues and its determination to strictly enforce the law.
However, this incident has also made the public realize that while strictly enforcing laws and regulations, how to balance maintaining food safety and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of small operators is a problem worthy of in-depth research. On the one hand, we cannot condone any food safety violations that may endanger public health;On the other hand, it is also necessary to provide necessary guidance and support for those small operators who are really unaware or unable to fully control the safety of the ** chain, such as strengthening food safety education and promoting the establishment of a sound traceability system, so as to ensure that they can operate in compliance with the law while avoiding huge economic losses due to unintentional mistakes.
In short, Ms. Zhang's experience warns us that food safety supervision should be more refined and humane, not only to severely punish violations, but also to guide and help small operators improve their compliance awareness and self-protection capabilities. Only in this way can we truly build a fair, orderly and safe market environment, so that consumers can eat at ease and operators can sell with peace of mind.