State Food and Drug Administration: Strictly investigate the use of waste oils and other such practices

   According to Xinhua News Agency dispatch, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the "2010 Implementation Plan for Food Safety Rectification Work in Catering Services" on the 19th, clearly setting out the tasks and measures for this year's food safety rectification work in catering services.

According to the rectification work plan, this year's rectification tasks mainly involve: strictly investigating unlicensed operations; strengthening supervision and inspection of school canteens, construction site canteens, and restaurants at nongjiale tourist spots; establishing and improving emergency response mechanisms, improving the rapid response mechanism for food poisoning accidents, and ensuring that the emergency response rate for major food safety accidents in the catering service sector reaches 100%, among others.

The plan requires strictly regulating the contracted operation of school canteens and construction site canteens, severely investigating and handling the procurement and use of raw and auxiliary materials that do not meet food safety standards, and severely investigating and handling practices such as cross-contamination between raw and cooked food and incomplete cleaning and disinfection of tableware, drinking utensils and equipment.

Seriously investigate and handle the procurement and use of diseased or unknown-cause-of-death livestock and poultry and their products, and increase supervision and inspection of the handling of kitchen waste and waste edible oils. Severely investigate and handle practices such as the use of inferior edible oil and waste kitchen oils. Increase supervision and inspection of the procurement and use of milk powder and dairy products, and severely investigate and handle the procurement and use of inferior dairy products by catering service units.