How can we eat healthily? Committee member proposes large-scale promotion of “organic food.”文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
“People in Guangdong know how to eat, but how to eat in a way that is reassuring, healthy, and better in taste—future market demand will require the supply of more organic food.” Yesterday, regarding food safety, a problem at the dining table, while in Beijing attendingthe National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,Professor Liu Xin, a national CPPCC member, academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, and dean of the Food and Health Engineering Research Institute at Sun Yat-sen University, said that the large-scale promotion of “organic food” is entirely feasible technologically, and “organic food,” once criticized for its high cost, is expected to reach the dining tables of ordinary families.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
“The supply of organic food is not small,” Liu Xin said. Just like everyone's demand for milk powder, once market demand expands, large-scale cultivation can supply the market, and thus costs will come down. “Large-scale cultivation of organic food is technologically feasible,” Liu Xin said. The country already has many organic food and green food cultivation bases. “The key problem is that some consumers do not believe whether it is truly organic food,” so the state is required to make supervision and monitoring more transparent.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
Does Guangdong have enough safe land to provide for organic food production? Yes, it can. Liu Xin explained that according to investigations, many places in Guangdong with good source water can provide abundant resources for organic food. For example, in some urban fringe areas of Guangdong, such as Heyuan and Longmen, and areas near Jiangxi, large-scale cultivation is possible. “The current problem is that what is grown cannot be sold; organic pigs that are raised cannot be sold.” Because they cannot be sold and the market is poor, costs also rise.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
“In the vegetable market, there are only one or two stalls selling organic vegetables.” Regarding the supply of organic food, Liu Xin said that because this chain is relatively long, if market demand is limited, the smaller the scale, the higher the cost.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
The reduction in the price of organic food depends on large-scale production. Will this kind of large-scale production lead to the alienation of organic food? “No!” Liu Xin said. The state must start from the source in terms of monitoring, including strengthening testing across the entire chain. In addition, Liu Xin suggested raising the threshold for monitoring. “Some foods we call safe, but when tested abroad, problems appear.” Liu Xin said he hopes Guangdong can also dare to be first in the area of food, making people feel that Guangdong's things are the most delicious, the healthiest, and the most reassuring.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
On gutter oil:文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
The vast majority can be converted into biodiesel.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
Regarding last year's widely discussed gutter oil incident, Liu Xin proposed that gutter oil absolutely must not be eaten, but it can be used as waste, converted into biodiesel, “with very considerable profits.”文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
Liu Xin stated that we need to give gutter oil a way out. Technologically, the vast majority of gutter oil can be converted into biodiesel and can be used directly as energy.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
On food safety supervision:文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
Increase efforts to crack down on lawless merchants.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
Why is it that although food safety issues are tackled every day and managed by everyone, food safety incidents such as toxic cowpeas and leather milk still continue despite repeated prohibitions? Liu Xin believes that at present, because China's food production and operation chain is long and involves a wide range of areas, vacuum zones, blind spots, and blind areas exist in food safety supervision in many places.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
Liu Xin gave an example he saw with his own eyes. He went to inspect a large market. Although there was modern testing equipment worth hundreds of thousands or even millions, it was basically just placed there and became a formality.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
“This year's crackdown will be stronger.” Recently, amendments to the Criminal Law increased the severity of punishment for food safety crimes, with the maximum penalty being death. Liu Xin believes this is very necessary. “Only by increasing efforts to crack down on lawless merchants can we effectively curb the arrogance of those who manufacture and sell toxic and harmful food.”文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/
He also suggested starting from the source of production, changing the practice of focusing on evaluation of end products, and changing the past approach of supervising only key links in the food chain to strengthening supervision of the entire food chain process.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/am/11290/