How to eat healthily? CPPCC member proposes large-scale promotion of “organic food”บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/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, addressing the issue of food safety on the dining table, Professor Liu Xin, a national CPPCC member attendingthe National Two Sessionsin Beijing, 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.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
“The supply of organic food is not small,” Liu Xin said. Just like everyone's demand for milk powder, once market demand expands and large-scale cultivation supplies the market, 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, and “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.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/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 large amounts of organic food resources. For example, in some urbanized 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; the organic pigs raised cannot be sold.” Because they cannot be sold and the market is poor, costs also rise.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
“The vegetable market has 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.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
The reduction in organic food prices 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 monitoring, and the entire chain must strengthen testing. In addition, Liu Xin suggested raising the threshold for monitoring. “Some foods we call safe turn out to have problems when tested abroad.” 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.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
On gutter oil:บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
The vast majority can be converted into biodieselบทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
Regarding the gutter oil incident that caused a great uproar last year, Liu Xin proposed that gutter oil absolutely must not be eaten, but it can be used as waste, converted into biodiesel, and “the profits are considerable.”บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
Liu Xin stated that we must 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.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
On food safety supervision:บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
Increase the crackdown on lawbreaking merchantsบทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/
Why is it that food safety problems are tackled every day and supervised by everyone, yet food safety incidents such as toxic cowpeas and leather milk still repeatedly occur 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.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/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.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/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 the crackdown on lawbreaking merchants can we effectively curb the arrogance of those who manufacture and sell toxic and harmful food.”บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/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.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11290/