Food drug safety reform focuses on change "to the generation of examination and approval regulation"

2013 - September 1

Source: the yangcheng evening news

Chief comments Pan Hongqi

        Newspaper, guangdong food and drug administration recently upgraded to institutions directly under the provincial government, take food, drugs production, circulation, consumption link of administrative licensing, supervision and management, and other functions, be responsible for the formulation and organize the implementation of the province's food, medicine, medical equipment, cosmetics regulatory inspection system, to investigate and punish across regions or major illegal behavior, etc. At this point, the food and drug field by previous bull management, to a feed by the provincial food and drug administration.

        In march, the National People's Congress (NPC) by agencies of the state council reform plan clear, the national food safety office and the state food and drug supervision bureau, quality supervision, inspection and quarantine of the duty of production of food safety regulatory responsibilities, state administration for industry and commerce circulation of food safety regulatory responsibilities, form of the state food and drug administration management; State administration of food drug safety is in charge of production, circulation and consumption of the nation's food and drug safety and efficacy of the implementation of unified regulation. The food and drug supervision bureau of guangdong province level upgraded, power capacity, the basic principles of reform, path and pattern, and form the state food and drug supervision administration under the state council.

        In the past, the food and drug regulation are divided into "two head four" : drug administration, by the drug regulatory department responsible for health administration system include the; Regulation of food, agriculture, forestry and fishery department is responsible for planting breed tache, pledges inspect bureau is in charge of production and processing link, the industrial and commercial bureau is responsible for the market circulation, eat food and drug administration is responsible for the consumer segment. Separately, segmented regulation seem to remit to differentiate clearly, between different departments are likely to cause mutual shuffle, entanglement wrangling, when exercising the supervisory powers can bring real benefits to the department or individual, each department often scrambling to compete to make moves, even exceeding; When a complex and difficult situation or food and drug safety accidents, relevant departments are not sole anointed with oil to slip more quickly than anyone, is trying to find out a variety of reasons, for his lack of rite, malfeasance "pass the buck. To curb these problems, the central and local institutional reform in recent years, "we will step up our efforts to streamline government organs, explore ways to establish greater departments with integrated functions", to form a state food and drug supervision bureau of the state council, where a unified food and drug regulator, is to explore ways to establish the super-ministries in the field of food and drug supervision, promote integration of unity and overall coordination of the drug safety function, at a higher level, in order to better efficiency to ensure the safety of food and drugs.

        Explore ways to establish the super-ministries food drug safety domain, already contains the content of the institutional reform, also contains the content of the reform of administrative examination and approval, the two promote each other, complement each other. From the perspective of institutional reform, the drug safety the super-ministries, need to separate, multiple functions of segmented regulation department or agency, into a unified coordination, complete and efficient a "big unit", in order to strengthen the agency's regulatory functions and utility. From the perspective of the reform of administrative examination and approval of a food drug safety, the super-ministries to delegating or cancel part of the administrative examination and approval items, will eat drug safety approval before the work center of gravity to regulatory approaches. The key to comprehensive, food drug safety the super-ministries reform, is to change the past "regulation" to approve the generation model, establish regulatory approaches and auxiliary, prior approval to work mechanism.

        In the "regulation" to approve the generation mode, too heavy and complicated and tough administrative examination and approval, not only affect the enterprise's innovation vigor, blocking the vitality of the market, power rent-seeking corruption and easy to develop. Regulatory responsibilities due to "heavy light regulatory approval" desalination blur, whenever a food and drug safety accident, some departments can always take "has strict examination and approval" as a shield, managed to escape the responsibility. Only change the pattern of "regulation" to approve the generation, in order to give full play to the enthusiasm and creativity of enterprise as the market main body, fully give play to the role of market mechanism, social supervision and industry self-discipline, for producers and operators to set up a visible business morals and dare not touch the high tension line, make the production operators become the "first person" of food and drug safety; To the food and drug regulatory system, system, mechanism, standard, in order to make clear the responsibility of the requirements and strict accountability for regulation, to the regulatory authorities and greater responsibility pressure regulators, and by regulators will pressure conduction to the food and drug production, circulation, consumption link, from the source and process of utmost to ensure the safety of food and drugs.