| Purpose: In recent years, the food safety events have occurred frequently worldwide, this has aroused the consumers to worry greatly. Many countries have taken control measures such as legislation, administration, and judicature to ensure the food safety supervision system to be implemented effectively. Food safety has become an important part of one country's country safety system. The purposes of this study is to explore a new food hygiene inspection model and to establish a stable and multi-component food safety guarantee system, so that this system could be used from food producing, circulating , and storing as well as from food primary producing to deep processing.Methods: The census method was performed to investigate the background information, hygiene quality indexes of all the yuba producing factories and companies in Xuchang City from April 1 to April 30 of 1999. The experimental method for detecting Rongailte was based on "The determinant method for Rongailte in the food" issued by the Chinese Ministry of Health. On the basis of background census, analysis of the former inspection experiences, and considering the special features of food hygiene inspection the City, a brand new food hygiene inspection model for thetraditional food processing enterprises was established, i.e. the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, public relation, health education, and administration theories were introduced to this model. This model requires support from the government, coordinating the involved government divisions to work together, gaining the support from the inspected enterprises, creating a good working environment, and establish the food safety guarantee network. This new food hygiene inspection model was implemented and evaluated in 497 yuba producing enterprises from May 1 of 1999. The following inspection activities were done with this new model: 1. to strengthen the qualification of inspection professionals and to promote the inspection and management quality. 2. to have good coordination work among every government divisions. 3. to exert public's supervision affection for food safety effectively. 4. to implement education and publicity work on the important food hygiene problems. 5. to strengthen professional association management and enterprises' self-management, and to increase enterprises' credit awareness. 6. to strengthen inspection activities and punish the illegal food producing cases strictly.Microsoft Excel 2000 was used to manage the data. SAS 6.12 software (SAS Institute, Gary, North Carolina) was used for the data analysis, and p <0.05 was considered as difference significant, x2 test was performed to test the differences of rates. The osculating value method was used to evaluate the yuba supervision condition of 1999 to 2003. The decreasing trend ofosculating value (C value) was tested by using regression analysis with C value as dependent variable and inspection years as independent variable.Results: In the Xuchang City area, there were 497 yuba producing enterprises located in two township areas and ten villages. Of them 5 (took 1.01%) were owned by the local village government, 10 (2.01%) were shareholding companies, and 482(96.98%) were family-style workshops. Among the workers, 1633 were under the primary school education level, which accounted for 80.52%, 24(took 1.18%) were with high school education experiences. Only 53 producing enterprises had the hygiene certifications, which accounted for 10.64%. Among 2028 workers who worked in these workshops, only 151 had individual health certifications, the rate with the individual health certifications was 7.44%. 510 yuba samples were randomly collected, the detecting rate for Rongalite was 31.76%, the rate for qualified tag based on the food hygiene law was only 15.03%. 150 of 510 yuba samples were found having foreign materials, taking account for 29.41%. From the beginning of the new food hygiene inspection model was implemented, every qualified family workshop was issued certificate strictly, this made the rate of having t... |
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