The administrative department of health refers to the department in charge of medical and health administration in the national health and family planning commission, the health and family planning commissions of all provinces and autonomous regions, and the health and family planning bureaus of all cities and counties. The administrative department of health is responsible for the policy and environmental work of medical and health care, and the specific law enforcement and business work are implemented by subordinate institutions.
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Introduction to the functions of the Health Planning Commission
Comprehensive coordination of food safety
According to the requirements of the Food Safety Law, under the leadership of local governments, health departments should establish a "unified, coordinated, authoritative and efficient" food safety comprehensive coordination mechanism to achieve synergy, strengthen joint law enforcement, strengthen information communication and form a joint effort.
The contents of comprehensive coordination include coordinating and studying the formulation of food safety supervision laws, guidelines, policies and institutional measures, analyzing the overall situation, implementing important arrangements, solving major problems, coordinating major special actions, evaluating food safety supervision work of various departments and governments at all levels, coordinating the unified release of major food safety information, and investigating major food safety accidents.
Food safety risk monitoring and assessment
According to the provisions of the Food Safety Law, the main task of food safety risk monitoring and evaluation is that the National Health and Family Planning Commission and relevant departments organize the formulation and implementation of the national food safety monitoring plan, and the provincial health administrative departments organize the formulation and implementation of the food safety risk monitoring plan in their respective administrative areas.
Monitor, inspect and evaluate food safety risks such as food pollutants and food-borne diseases, improve the prevention, investigation, reporting and emergency response capabilities of food-borne diseases, and establish laboratory networks, information collection and analysis networks and epidemiological investigation and reporting networks that provide sufficient technical capabilities for risk assessment.
Organize the investigation and handling of major food safety accidents.
The Food Safety Law stipulates that the health administrative department is responsible for organizing the investigation of major food safety accidents, undertaking the tasks of major food safety accident reporting, on-site disposal, accident investigation, sanitary treatment, epidemiological investigation and accountability, and governments at all levels formulate emergency plans for food safety accidents. Among them, the emergency plan still needs the health department to assist the government in formulating.
Health administrative departments at all levels should establish a food safety accident investigation mechanism and emergency system. Before the accident, they should strengthen the evaluation and early warning, make plans, and achieve early detection, early reporting and early control. After the accident, they should deal with it in time and try their best to rescue it to minimize the harm caused by the accident. At the same time, they should establish systems such as departmental coordination, information notification, accident aftermath handling, rectification supervision, and return visits.
Release important food safety information
The provincial health administrative department shall establish and improve the food safety information exchange platform, build a database of food safety risk assessment and risk early warning information, and establish a unified food safety information release system. Health administrative departments at all levels should establish a smooth and efficient food safety information reporting mechanism to ensure that information that needs to be upgraded or released by the Ministry of Health can be released in a timely, accurate and authoritative manner.
All localities should also establish a food safety information collection and notification mechanism and a complaint reporting and acceptance mechanism, strengthen information interconnection and sharing, widely mobilize public attention, and find hidden dangers in time.
Formulate and revise national and local food safety standards
The Food Safety Law entrusts the responsibility of formulating food safety standards to the health administrative department of the State Council, and requires the health administrative department of the State Council to integrate the existing quality and safety standards of edible agricultural products, food hygiene standards, food quality standards and food-related industry standards, and uniformly issue them as national food safety standards. Where there is no national food safety standard, the provincial health administrative department may formulate local food safety standards.
Enterprise standards should be reported to the provincial health administrative department for the record, which is responsible for organizing the formulation of local food safety standards and enterprise standards for the record.
Formulation of new product licensing and inspection specifications
According to the law, the National Health and Family Planning Commission is responsible for reviewing and approving new varieties of food raw materials, new varieties of food additives and new varieties of food-related products, and approving imported foods, food additives and food-related products that have not yet formulated national food safety standards; Responsible for formulating food inspection standards and qualification conditions.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-health administrative department