Employees of cold chain food imported from Beijing need to hold a 3-day negative nucleic acid test certificate before they can take up their posts

Introduction

On January 20, Beijing held the 270th press conference on the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic. At the press conference, Lang Zhiqiang, director of food safety of the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, secretary of the party committee and director of the Beijing Municipal Inspection and Testing and Certification Center, stressed that employees of cold chain food imported from Beijing need to hold a negative 3-day nucleic acid test certificate before they can take up their posts.

Beijing requirements:

Imported cold chain food practitioners need to hold a 3-day nucleic acid negative certificate before they can take up their posts

At the press conference, Lang Zhiqiang, director of food safety of the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, secretary of the party committee and director of the Beijing Municipal Inspection and Testing and Certification Center, stressed that Beijing will carry out the prevention of imported cold chain food "people, things and the environment" from four aspects.

First, strict access management of imported cold chain food practitioners.

At present, there are about 33,700 employees in the existing imported cold chain food in our city, all of whom are required to hold a negative nucleic acid test certificate within the specified time limit before they can take up their posts. At the same time, the implementation of imported cold chain food practitioners with the new crown pneumonia vaccine full vaccination record induction system, the timely organization of the third dose of vaccine for practitioners who meet the conditions for strengthening immunization. Since 2022, a total of 134,200 nucleic acid testing has been carried out for imported cold chain food practitioners and co-residents.

The second is to continue to do a good job in the early warning and monitoring of imported cold chain food, packaging, production and operation environment.

Each district carries out weekly sampling nucleic acid testing for imported cold chain food and packaging, and requires environmental nucleic acid testing every 7 days for farmers' markets, food production enterprises, central kitchens, collective meal distribution units, bars, and unit canteens; and requires food business units such as restaurants and supermarkets to carry out environmental nucleic acid testing every 30 days. Since 2022, a total of 72,600 pieces of nucleic acid testing of various types of food and packaging, and 566,000 pieces of food-related production and operation environments.

The third is to strictly implement the control measures for imported cold chain food.

Continue to implement the management requirements of "three specialties, three certificates, and four noes" for imported cold chain foods, implement special channels for imported cold chain food to be purchased, stored in special areas, and sold in special areas, and shall not be mixed with other foods for storage and sales; for imported cold chain foods without inspection and quarantine certificates, nucleic acid test certificates, disinfection certificates, and traceability information, they will not be produced, processed, and marketed. In accordance with the principle of "who unpacks, who disinfects", do a good job of preventive disinfection, so that "no disinfection, no storage", "no verification of nucleic acids, no storage".

At the same time, we continue to promote the application of the "Beijing cold chain" traceability platform, and since 2022, 23,900 batches of imported cold chain food have been circulated, totaling more than 60,000 tons.

The fourth is to increase the intensity of law enforcement inspections.

Continue to supervise and inspect imported cold chain food-related formats such as farmers' markets, food production units, food business units, and catering units. Since 2022, 117,900 law enforcement personnel have been dispatched, 190,500 market entities have been inspected, and the publicity and notification of the problems found have been increased, and the warning deterrent effect has been exerted.

Normalized nucleic acid testing in the crypto market

Organize and carry out the whole chain and full coverage inspection of imported cold chain food in the city

At the meeting, Lang Zhiqiang introduced that the normalization of nucleic acid testing in the field of crypto market will be further encrypted, and the whole chain and full coverage of imported cold chain food in the city will be organized.

The city's imported cold chain food employees can only be employed from holding a 7-day nucleic acid test negative certificate to holding a 3-day nucleic acid test negative certificate. The frequency of nucleic acid testing for co-residents of imported cold chain food practitioners has been adjusted from once every 30 days to once every 15 days.

Catering units (including bars, canteens), food production units, supermarkets, convenience stores and other food business units, beauty salons and other food business units, beauty salons employees from holding a 14-day nucleic acid test negative certificate to hold a 10-day nucleic acid test negative certificate can only be on the job. Through strengthening monitoring and early warning, we will effectively improve the ability to "detect early" the risk of the epidemic.

Strictly investigate the implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures in the city's imported cold chain food production and trading units and cold storage, and strictly prohibit the procurement, use, and storage of imported cold chain food of unknown origin, uneven qualifications, and untested. Problems such as the mixed sale of domestic and imported cold chain food, the impersonation of imported cold chain aquatic products as domestic sales, and the inconsistency between the testing certificates of imported cold chain food and the batch of goods will be investigated and dealt with strictly and severely in accordance with law.

Where non-compliance with the requirements for the prevention and control of imported cold chain food causes the spread of the epidemic or causes a major risk of epidemic transmission, it is transferred to the public security organs for criminal responsibility in accordance with law.

Source: The 270th regular press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Beijing

Source: Beijing Traffic Radio