Food safety is a "popular project" related to the international people's livelihood, directly related to the health and life safety of the broad masses of people, and related to economic development and social stability. Ensuring food safety is a complex systematic project, and all links from production to circulation to consumption should be well grasped. From government to enterprises to consumers, everyone should understand that every family should participate. In recent years, the adverse effects of events such as Sudan red and melamine have left consumers with lingering fears. Therefore, we must severely crack down on acts that undermine food safety and endanger people's health, strengthen food safety publicity and education, improve the knowledge level and self-protection ability of the whole people, and create a good atmosphere for the whole society to pay attention to and participate in food safety.
At present, many consumers' awareness of food safety is not strong, consumption knowledge is still insufficient, and the social foundation of food safety is not solid. Consumers urgently need an easy-to-understand and practical popular science book on food safety, nutrition and health care. This book brings together the basic knowledge of food safety such as food safety management, food identification, nutrition science, food storage and consumer rights protection. And tell readers how to choose food, how to arrange their diet scientifically and reasonably, what food to eat in what season, how to complain when encountering problems in consumption, and so on. This book is a tip for people's food safety and nutrition health care at home.
Food is the material basis for human survival, and food safety is a "popular project" related to the health and life safety of the broad masses of people.
Make consumers enhance food safety awareness, increase food safety knowledge, establish a healthy and scientific consumption concept, actively participate in food safety supervision, and ensure food safety and health.
The Influence of Food Safety on People
Recently, food safety accidents have aroused great concern in society. When it comes to food safety, people are extremely concerned and worried. With the continuous progress of economy and society, the continuous development of economic globalization and the diversification of people's diet culture, food hygiene and safety has become a hot topic of great concern. "Sudan Red Incident", "Water-injected Meat" and the recent "Sanlu Milk Powder Incident" all affect the hearts of the general public.
With the diversified development of food, various additives are constantly being refurbished and emerged, and are constantly added to food. There are additives in the floss and melamine in the milk powder. Although the information of food safety in modern society is asymmetric, it may all be the default in consumers' minds. Considering the food we eat every day and the people around us, most people agree with the view that "out of sight is clean". "Problem food" appears in our life more and more frequently, but it also causes a series of social impacts.
1. The impact of food safety on personal health
Food safety incidents are easy to cause group diseases and have great social and psychological impact. How to ensure food safety has become a major social and international issue in the new century, which has attracted more and more attention from the government and the public. Food-borne diseases are the main cause of human suffering, which will bring unnecessary death and economic burden. Worldwide, in recent years, food safety malignant emergencies have occurred frequently, and dioxin pollution incidents have occurred in Belgium; Mad cow disease and swine fever in Britain; There are nearly ten thousand cases of food poisoning caused by Escherichia coli O 157 in Japan, which seriously threatens people's health.
Due to the mature development of food industry chain, market food has become one of people's daily necessities. Once there is a food safety problem in the market, it will inevitably lead to a wide range of food safety accidents, thus becoming a mass food safety accident.
Food safety is related to public health and life safety. Successive food safety accidents will not only affect people's panic and worry about food in the market, but also have a very adverse impact on the economic development of the whole society.
2. The impact of food safety on economic development
Food safety will make people doubt or even lose confidence in the food appearing in the market, which will definitely have a great impact on market economic activities.
After Sanlu milk powder incident, dairy enterprises in China will face a devastating blow! Related to this, dairy farmers in China, as well as the whole industrial chain, will face a frozen winter. China dairy, which has developed for decades, will be in danger of being destroyed! With the conduction and radiation of the industrial chain, its destructive effect will directly deal a heavy blow to China's economy! The whole food manufacturing industry in China will pay a heavy price for this. No matter in the international or domestic market, China food industry will face huge credit losses and economic losses.
However, the impact on social and economic activities goes far beyond this. Due to the mutual coherence of market economy, the development of China's whole economy will also pay a painful price. For a long time, people will think of melamine when they see domestic products. Both at home and abroad. Sanlu's impact on China's economy is far from unexpected, and it may take a long time for China to regain its credibility.
3. The impact of food safety on social stability
The occurrence of food safety problems not only seriously damages society economically, but also affects consumers' trust in the government and threatens social stability and national security. The dioxin incident in Belgium not only brought down the ministers of health and agriculture, but also brought down the socialist government that had been in power for 40 years.
Food safety is also easily exploited by terrorists and criminals. Some lawless elements may use food safety accidents to create rumors, causing public panic and social chaos, thus carrying out illegal and criminal activities.
In a word, food safety is one of the most important livelihood issues, which has been highly valued by government departments in various countries. At the 53rd World Health Assembly convened by the World Health Organization at the beginning of 2000 100, more than one member country reached a resolution on food safety. Taking food safety as a priority area of public health requires member States to formulate corresponding action plans to minimize the threat of food-borne diseases to public health. Our government also attaches great importance to food safety and hygiene. On the basis of summarizing the original work and drawing lessons from foreign advanced experience, the Food Safety Action Plan was formulated.