Introduction to food safety

Food safety refers to food that is non-toxic, harmless, meets the required nutritional requirements, and does not cause any acute, sub-acute or chronic harm to human health. According to the definition of Benuo food safety, food safety is "a public health issue in which toxic and harmful substances in food affect human health." Food safety is also an interdisciplinary field dedicated to ensuring food hygiene and food safety during food processing, storage, and sales, reducing hidden diseases and preventing food poisoning, so food safety is very important. On December 23-24, 2013, the Central Rural Work Conference was held in Beijing. Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the meeting. The meeting emphasized that whether it can give the people a satisfactory explanation on food safety is a major test of governance ability. Food safety is "managed". The cultivation, breeding, processing, packaging, storage, transportation, sales, consumption and other activities of food (food) comply with the mandatory standards and requirements of the state, and there are no toxic and harmful substances that may damage or threaten human health and cause consumers to die or endanger consumers and their descendants. The concept indicates that food safety includes both production safety and operation safety; both result safety and process safety; both actual safety and future safety. Article 150 of the Supplementary Provisions of Chapter 10 of the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates: The meaning of the following terms in this Law: Food safety refers to food that is non-toxic, harmless, meets the nutritional requirements it should have, and does not cause any acute, sub-acute or chronic harm to human health. On December 25, 2024, the National People's Congress website published the "Report of the National Supervisory Commission on the Work of Correcting Unhealthy Practices and Corruption Among the Masses". The report pointed out that the National Supervisory Commission has vigorously rectified the management of "school meals" and guarded the food safety of primary and secondary schools.