Dairy products should not have a "buffering period"

Recently, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) issued an announcement requesting all enterprises that have obtained dairy products and infant formula milk powder production licenses to apply for production licenses before the end of the year. Starting from March 1, next year, enterprises that have not regained production licenses will be discontinued. Some companies want to give a buffer period, saying that packaging materials and other inventory is too difficult to digest and cause losses. (New Beijing News, November 7)

In recent years, there have been frequent problems in the dairy product market in China, especially in the field of infant formula milk powder manufacturing, which exposes many loopholes in the quality and safety management system. In order to effectively strengthen the quality and safety of dairy products, the AQSIQ has revised and revised the “Detailed Rules for the Examination of Production Conditions for Infant Formula Milk Powder (2010 Edition)” and “Detailed Rules for Examination of License Conditions for Production of Dairy Products (2010 Version)”. Compared with the original by-laws, the new rules require more detailed requirements in the quality management system of production companies, and raise barriers to increasing software indicators such as equipment, energy hardware indicators, and professional staffing, and specifically require companies to ensure that The purchased raw milk and raw milk powder were inspected in batches for melamine inspection to further establish a fence for quality and safety supervision.

The promulgation of new regulations on dairy products and the re-application of production licenses have been interpreted by the industry as an indication of the country’s determination to rectify dairy products, which is conducive to the reshuffle of the industry and the development of standards. It provides the general public with a safe consumer environment and the new regulations are highly anticipated by the society. However, some companies have shown a wait-and-see attitude. The only reason to find out is that “the packaging materials of the products are all printed well before the end of the year and they will be re-applied and re-printed and replaced. The losses are not small.”

Pursuing profit maximization is the nature of capital. It is hoped that the buffer period will be given by some companies based on their own interests.

However, this view ignores one of the biggest preconditions: there is no “buffering period” for the quality and safety of dairy products. The dangers of bad milk powder will not wait for the company to digest the inventory. The implementation of the New Deal the day after tomorrow will make up for the loophole one day later, which means consumers will need to put more days into danger.

Poison milk powder, big-headed dolls, precocious puberty and a series of incidents made dairy products, especially infant formula, become the object of “discussion”. Among them, both unscrupulous businessmen and enterprises are eager to smoke and produce high profits for the production of bad products. At the same time, they also highlight the system drawbacks of China's inadequate food regulatory system. Tremendous use of heavy code. Raising the barriers to entry of dairy products and reissuing “passes” are not just a matter of increasing “regulatory leakage” of melamine self-inspections, but also the “orderly rectification” of regulating industry development. As the experts say, “The New Deal will objectively eliminate some small-scale dairy processing companies. These companies tend to be troubled.”

Growth must experience “labor pains” and development must pay a price. The key is to start from the overall situation, weigh the pros and cons, sacrifice individuality, and care for me. During the Song Dynasty, when Fan Zhongyan was a prime minister, he personally went through the local officials' rosters and saw that the doomed and greedy practitioners used their pens to check out their names. The person around him confessed that if he took off one's official position, he would cry for his family. Fan Chung Yan is a straight face. The family cries better than the one crying.

As honest as it may be, the tolerance of some dairy companies is a disregard for consumer health rights. We hope that the new regulations for dairy products can be implemented as soon as possible, stimulating turbidity, and giving the industry a fresh air; at the same time, we also hope that the relevant companies will adopt a positive attitude, actively seek change, and take active measures to absorb internal pressure, rather than blindly hope that the policy buffer. Or transfer costs through price increases. In a sense, certain sacrifices and concessions are made to standardize the development of the industry and protect the rights and interests of the public. This is also a concrete manifestation of the fulfillment of corporate social responsibility.