Report says China's food safety information is not transparent 29 provincial capital fail

Authorities wide nets Beijing, March 16 (reporters Bai Jiege) according to the voice of the news aspect of the news, yesterday was the 34th international consumer rights day. Food safety is one of the top concerns of consumers, public participation in research and support center of Peking University report showed yesterday, China's food safety supervision and information disclosure is generally low, especially on dynamic updating of the information. The national people's Congress last year enacted a new food safety law, but reports from Peking University, implementation is not satisfactory. Low transparency of information on food safety, food and consumer's rights will be violated.

The report is evaluated by the Central, provincial and provincial capital 59 food safety regulatory information level, only the State food and drug administration and Shandong, Hubei and other six provincial food and drug administration more than 60 points, the highest score was 69.75. lowest score is 7.5 points. 29 provincial capital cities of the food and drug administration were all failing. Peking University, senior fellow at the Centre for research and support for public participation Peng 錞 introduction, the overall situation is not optimistic.

From the perspective of administrative levels, from central to local to the province to the capital city, food safety and transparency in the regulatory information is a decreasing trend and lower administrative levels, the more opaque.

Marked on the map by color transparency, high score roughly with Eastern and southern, Western, Northern low-scoring trend, positive correlation with the level of economic development. Zhejiang ranked in the East, Western Sichuan and Gansu scored higher. Peng 錞 said that even if economic development is not so high in the area, and information in this regard can actually do very well.

According to the new food safety law and the requirements of the open government information regulation, evaluation indicators include the food safety supervision and information disclosure, network platform construction, as well as the public. In the disclosure of information, dynamic open information than static information.

Static refers to the supervision results, fixing of the information, such as names of food safety standards, licensing, and so on, dynamic information is more to reflect the regulatory process a dynamic, real-time information, such as safety alert, food recall information, food, for example, punishment, investigated and dealt with, and so on. Observed information of Chinese food safety regulation is completed, light on, dynamic effect openly information than static information that is a lot worse.

Peking University School of law assessment team of 25 master's, doctoral, browse Web pages, make phone calls, online message and issue a public application of detection evaluation means. He said food safety supervision information with each one is closely related to ordinary people, so in addition to the statutory requirements, there is a index of the source is the official website of the food and Drug Administration's convenience, or is the user experience.

In this one, scoring average in Shanghai Municipal food and drug supervision Bureau 70.83%, ranked first, over the State food and drug administration. Scoring 54.17% in Lanzhou city, ranked first in the capital city. Under-developed Jiangxi, Gansu, ranked higher than Beijing. According to application success rate is relatively high, but there is still a new food safety law categorically refused to disclose the contents of, the main reason for refusal was "inside information". Evaluation team introduction, observation period from 2014-2015, most of the new food safety law has not come into effect, but you can display the status and the gap between new laws. For the new food safety law explicitly require the disclosure of the "list of registration or filing of infant formula milk powder" and "list of approved health food ads and ad were" currently open is less than 10%, becomes legally publicly the "disastrous".

Since 2013, China's food safety from the bulls management to unified management of the food and drug administration, but information still publicly distributed, affecting a number of scores.

Found in the observation, there is a lot of information on the Internet is public, but not on the official website of the food and drug supervision system of the public, but in sectors such as agriculture, health, quality Web sites. Information actually corresponds to the regulatory structures and regulatory structure that is before the bulls management, now into management, but integration has not kept up. Requirements have changed, but has not, institutional transformation in information disclosure levels has not been achieved.

In addition, food safety supervision in food and drug supervision departments of public information, such as speech, information on meetings and documentation and more, and more concerned with food safety information to the public is less, Peng 錞 suggested that proportionally changed, these jobs can be reduced, and information about the regulatory process in real terms increased.

For food and drug supervision departments worry about too much influence in public image or cause panic, said Peng 錞, or the relevant government departments in this regard first of all to be confident, to be aware of special conditions for their work. Meanwhile, society as a whole should improve their scientific awareness of food safety incidents, news came that was "bad news", but it does not mean that a food safety monitoring work, done well, may on the contrary means doing a very good job of food safety supervision.

(Editors: Xu Yonggang UN006)
2016-03-16 08:57:59
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报告称我国食品安全信息不透明 29个省会不及格

　　央广网北京3月16日消息（记者白杰戈）据中国之声《新闻纵横》报道，昨天是第34个国际消费者权益日。食品安全是消费者最关心的问题之一，北京大学公众参与研究与支持中心昨天公布的报告显示，中国食品安全监管的信息公开程度普遍较低，尤其体现在动态信息的更新上。全国人大常委会去年就颁布了新的《食品安全法》，但是从北京大学的报告来看，实施效果并不理想。食品安全信息的透明度低，食品消费者的权益就会受到侵害。

　　这份报告评测了中央、省级和省会城市59个食品安全监管部门的信息公开水平，只有国家食药监总局和山东、湖北等六个省级食药监局超过60分，最高分是69.75.最低分是7.5分。29个省会城市的食药监局全都不及格。北京大学公众参与研究与支持中心高级研究员彭錞介绍，整体情况不容乐观。

　　从行政层级的角度来看，从中央到地方到省再到省会城市，食品安全监管信息的透明度是递减的趋势，行政层级越低，越不透明。

　　把透明度按颜色标注在地图上，大致呈现出东部、南部得分高，西部、北部得分低的趋势，与经济发展水平正相关。但是东部的浙江排名靠后，西部的四川和甘肃得分较高。彭錞说，即便是经济可能发达程度没那么高的地区，在这方面的信息公开其实也是可以做得很好的。

　　根据新《食品安全法》和《政府信息公开条例》的要求，评测指标包括食品安全监管信息的主动公开情况、网络平台建设，以及依申请公开情况。在主动公开信息中，动态信息公开程度不如静态信息。

　　静态信息指的是监管结果化、固定化的信息，比如说食品安全的标准、许可的名目等等，动态信息则是那些更加能够直接反映监管流程一线动态的实时信息，比如说安全的风险警示，比如说食品的召回信息，比如说食品的处罚、查处等等。观察发现我国食品安全监管信息是重完成时、轻进行时，也就是说动态信息的公开效果要比静态信息要差很多。

　　北京大学法学院25名硕士、博士研究生组成的测评团队，通过浏览网页、拨打电话、在线平台留言和发出检测性公开申请等手段实施评测。他说，食品安全监管信息跟每一个普通老百姓是息息相关的，所以除了法定要求以外，还有一块指标的来源就是食药监部门官方网站的便民性，或者说是用户体验。

　　在这一项中，上海市食药监局得分率70.83%，排名第一，超过国家食药监总局。兰州市得分率54.17%，在省会城市中排第一。经济欠发达的江西、甘肃，排名高于北京。依申请公开的成功率比较高，但是仍然有新《食品安全法》明文要求的内容被拒绝公开，主要的拒绝理由是“内部管理信息”。评测团队介绍，观察的时段从2014-2015年，其中的大部分时间新《食品安全法》还没有生效，但是可以显示现状与新法规的差距。对于新《食品安全法》明确要求公开的“注册或者备案的婴幼儿配方乳粉目录”和“已经批准的保健食品广告目录以及广告内容”目前公开程度都不到一成，成为依法公开的“重灾区”。

　　2013年以来，中国的食品安全从多头管理转为食药监部门统一管理，但是相关信息公开仍然分散，影响了一些分数。

　　在观察当中也发现，确实有很多信息在网上是公开了，但不是在食药监系统的官方网站上公开，而是散布在农业、卫生、质检等部门的网站。实际上信息公开对应的是监管结构，之前的监管结构是多头管理，现在要变为统一管理，但是信息集成度还没有跟上。要求变了，但实际的做法还没有，机构的转轨在信息公开层面还没有实现。

　　另外，食药监部门公开的食品安全监管工作信息比较多，比如领导讲话、会议和文件信息等等，而公众更关心的食品安全监管信息公布偏少，彭錞建议，从比例上改变，这些工作信息可以适当减少，而真正关于监管实质过程的信息要增多。

　　对于有食药监部门担心公开信息过多影响形象或者造成恐慌，彭錞表示，政府或者相关部门在这方面首先要自信，要清楚地认识到自己工作的特殊条件。同时整个社会公众也应该提高自己对食品安全事件的科学认知，放出来的消息是“坏消息”，但并不意味着某地的食品安全监管工作，做得不好，可能恰恰相反，意味着食品安全监管工作做得非常好。

(责任编辑：徐永刚 UN006)
2016-03-16 08:57:59
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