[Source: Zhejiang News Channel] Agricultural products in fresh food supermarkets must be tested. Once pesticide residues are found to exceed the standard, the vegetables will no longer be available. This is a loss for the supermarket and is difficult to prevent. Today, Zhejiang

[Source: Zhejiang News Channel]

Agricultural products in fresh supermarkets must be tested. Once pesticide residues are found to exceed the standard, this batch of vegetables cannot be used. This is a loss for the supermarket, and it is very difficult. prevention.

Today, Zhejiang Province’s first fresh food store food safety liability insurance payment was completed in Xihu District, Hangzhou. Insurance compensation can not only reduce the operator’s losses from destroying substandard products, but also prevent substandard food from flowing into the market again, protecting consumers. Safety of vegetable basket.

In order to protect the safety of people's vegetable baskets, this year, Hangzhou's Xihu District implemented a full coverage project of rapid inspection of edible agricultural products in fresh food stores. At 10 o'clock in the morning, the reporter came to the testing room and found that the staff was testing agricultural products. The ginger from a fresh food store in the jurisdiction was found to have excessive pesticide residues.

Staff from the Xihu District Market Supervision Bureau immediately rushed to the fresh food store. Facing the inspection by the regulatory authorities, the store manager Mr. Yang was also helpless. He said that the ginger was purchased from the wholesale market and he did not know that there would be problems with the ginger: "It is difficult for us to control because we purchase the goods. There is no way to tell the difference. "

According to regulations, unqualified food needs to be removed from the shelves immediately and destroyed. However, at the scene, Chen Cong, head of the Food Production and Circulation Section of the Xihu District Market Supervision Bureau, brought good news to Mr. Yang: "From a regulatory perspective, once there is an incident involving Yang, we will also trace it back, but for us, For end-user operators, there is an urgent need for cost recovery, so we have launched food safety liability insurance.”

The reporter learned that Xihu District has introduced a number of insurance companies and has defined the insurance types: edible agricultural products sold by business operators. When the rapid test is positive and needs to be destroyed or treated harmlessly, the business owner can obtain reasonable insurance compensation based on the insurance policy and purchase, sale and inventory records. Mr. Yang took out food safety liability insurance last month and can make a claim this time.

Manager Xu of the insurance company introduced: "The premium of the insurance is 10 yuan, the total insured amount is 1,000 yuan throughout the year, and the limit of single insurance is 500 yuan. If any rapid inspection products fail to meet the standards during the year, we will receive a notice He will be compensated in the future, and if the materials are complete, the claim will be completed within three working days. "

The full coverage project of quick inspection of fresh food stores is a pilot project for the province's micro-reform of vegetable basket safety protection this year. Chen Cong introduced that in the past, insurances were mainly launched to prevent food poisoning in small restaurants. The introduction of food safety liability insurance for fresh food stores is a new attempt and exploration in the process of advancing this project: "I hope to better promote The operation of this project will better protect the safety of consumers' food baskets; on the other hand, from the perspective of serving the business environment, it will help our small and scattered operators reduce losses, so that our supervision will be both strong and warm. ”

Source: Zhejiang News Channel (Reporters: Cai Tian, ​​Shi Rongfeng)