美典委员会(USP)呼吁FDA将经济驱动型食品掺假作为一项独特议题处理

巴西木

    美典委员会(USP)呼吁FDA将经济驱动型食品掺假作为一项独特议题处理----徐禾丰

     2014年5月9日，美国药典委员会(USP)在USP官方网站发新闻稿宣布，美国药典委员会向美国食品药品监督管理局(FDA)递交了一封公众意见信(public comment letter)，呼吁FDA重新考虑其对经济驱动型食品成分掺假(EMA)议题的策略。其中特别强调了以经济利益为目的，食品成分故意、欺骗性的掺假可能引起的风险。

     文中，美国药典委员会首席执行官Ronald Piervincenzi博士表达了对经济驱动型食品掺假威胁公众安全，打击消费者对食品行业的信心和扰乱市场的关切和担忧。USP就此议题向FDA提出了合理建议，并认为应重点关注经济驱动型食品掺假最可能发生的环节和采用的手段，包括稀释，替换，隐藏，错误标签等。

     目前，USP针对经济驱动型食品掺假开展的工作包括建立食品掺假数据库(Food Fraud Database,FFD)(免费公开)，并计划进一步开发相关工具。

新闻原稿(英文)内容如下：

USP Urges FDA to Address Economically-Motivated Food Adulteration as a Unique Issue
Rockville, Md., May 9, 2014 — Emphasizing the specific risks posed by the intentional and fraudulent adulteration of food ingredients for economic gain, the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the FDA to reconsider its strategy to address Economically-Motivated Adulteration (EMA) of food ingredients.

“Economically-motivated adulteration of food ingredients is a significant concern, with its own challenges, posing a threat to public safety, eroding consumer confidence in the integrity of food and disrupting markets by placing control of the supply chain in the hands of criminals,” said Ronald Piervincenzi,Ph.D., chief executive officer at USP. “EMA should be addressed as its own unique category of food adulteration.”

USP recommends that FDA considers a framework tailored to the specific nature of EMA. While USP agrees that it is not ideal to handle EMA under a typical food-defense/vulnerability approach, the organization says EMA would be equally misplaced under preventive controls. The suggested approach would include avulnerability assessment mostly focused on determining the likelihood of EMA occurring, but also including a component of public health risk assessment; asecond component would be a vulnerability control plan to mitigate these risks.

“Any food ingredient can be adulterated, and the list of potential adulterantsis equally unlimited. The best way to protect consumers and safeguard industry is to focus on determining where EMA is most likely to occur. Publicly available standards can also help safeguard against adulteration of food ingredients by helping assure food integrity and excluding ingredients thathave been substituted, diluted or replaced, through fraud or other means,” said Piervincenzi.
USP highlighted the wide array of concerns related to economically-motivated food adulteration:
Dilution– such as olive oil diluted with potentially toxic tea tree oil or products watered down using non-potable water.
Substitution– including sunflower oil partially substituted with mineral oil or hydrolyzed leather protein in milk.
Concealment– such as harmful food coloring applied to fresh fruit to cover defects.
Mislabeling– including toxic Japanese star anise labeled as Chinese star anise or mislabeled/recycled cooking oil.
USP offers free public resources including a Food Fraud Database and plans to develop additional tools.

幻影

可怕的不是不知道，而是知道了规则而故意造假的。

一沙一叶

啥不是经济驱动啊   

彩虹

免费公开数据库，有利于监督、管理。

lairong14

看人家美国人。

syhorchid

食品掺假形同过街老鼠

yuansoul

讨厌你，为啥退出了黑道生涯:@

yuansoul

“ @巴西木  我没有机会打劫你啊  发表于 半小时” 说明我风险评估做得好，消减措施有效

冰城

呼吁和执行两个概念吧