The 2025 Advanced Training Course for Food Safety Professional and Technical Talents, sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and undertaken by Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University, was successfully held from September 26 to 28 at Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University. The training course, with the theme of Ensuring the Safety of the People's Tongue, invited experts from government regulatory departments, industry associations, and universities as trainers. A total of 120 students from 76 upstream and downstream enterprises in the food industry chain, including Guangming Food (Group) Co., Ltd., Bailian Group Co., Ltd., COFCO Rongshi Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Shikumen Brewery Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Bohai Catering Group Co., Ltd., participated and passed the assessment, contributing to strengthening the continuing education of professional and technical personnel in the food industry, promoting the improvement of professional and technical talent capabilities, advancing the construction of professional and technical talent teams, and promoting the high-quality development of the food industry.
The three-day advanced training course focuses on current hot food safety events, interprets the latest national food safety standards and regulations, and is committed to food safety risk prevention and control, as well as the implementation of the main responsibility of food producers and operators. The course is rich in content and cutting-edge.
At the beginning of the training, Vice President Wu Youzhi of Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University delivered a speech. President Wu welcomed the arrival of the enterprise students and emphasized that this advanced research class has provided a platform for communication and exchange between regulatory authorities, industry associations, enterprises, and vocational undergraduate colleges, enhancing the main responsibility and legal awareness of food production and operation enterprises, promoting the high-quality development of the food industry, and ensuring the goal of safety on the tongue of the people. The educational philosophy of being a good person, doing things, and learning and the research orientation of integrating industry, academia, research, and application of Zhongqiao University were introduced. Finally, the vision of jointly building a steel defense line from farmland to dining table was proposed.
Gu Zhenhua, former deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Regulation, elaborated on food safety risk prevention and control strategies, detailing requirements for food safety risk monitoring, risk assessment, risk management, and risk information exchange. He once again pointed out that by 2035, China will basically achieve the goal of modernizing the national governance system and governance capacity in the field of food safety.
Professor Li Xianbao from Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University shared the current situation and challenges of prefabricated food safety, and proposed that the prefabricated food industry is in a critical stage of development in standardization and development in standardization. Safety is the lifeline of the industry, and policy guidance should be the direction, technological innovation should be the driving force, safety control should be the core, and consumer trust should be the foundation. Ultimately, the goal of high-quality development of the industry and consumers can eat with confidence should be achieved.
Professor Liu Aiguo from Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University elaborated on the common problems in the food production process, pointing out the uniformity of food raw materials and production processes, microbial control, labeling, food additives and other common issues. Drawing on international standards, he proposed management suggestions.
Chen Zuyao, President of the Shanghai Food Safety Federation, explained the specific measures for food producers and operators to effectively implement the main responsibility of daily control, weekly investigation, and monthly scheduling for food safety through a case study, and put forward suggestions for food safety public opinion management and emergency response.
In the subsequent topic of interpreting regulatory standards, Qiu Congqian, Deputy Chief of the Enforcement Team of the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Regulation, interpreted the Measures for the Supervision and Management of Food Labeling and explained the general requirements for food labeling, labeling requirements for ordinary and special foods, as well as supervision and legal responsibilities, based on practical cases.
In addition, experts from Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University interpreted national food safety standards such as the General Rules for Pre packaged Food Labeling, the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Pre packaged Food, the standards for the use of food additives, and the safety evaluation of food strains.
Finally, Wu Jiaqi, the fourth level organizer of the Enforcement Brigade of Jinshan District Market Supervision Administration in Shanghai, explained the key points of daily supervision and inspection of food production, pointed out the problems of enterprises in the process of daily supervision and inspection, and put forward improvement suggestions.
The successful holding of this training course has provided an efficient and professional platform for the government, industry associations, enterprises, and vocational undergraduate colleges. Through three days of intensive training, the food safety management ability of professional and technical personnel has been improved, effectively promoting the deep integration of industry, academia, research and application, and jointly addressing new challenges in food safety.
Zhongqiao University will continue to serve as a bridge and link, working together with all parties to safeguard the safety of the people's tongues, and making unremitting efforts to build a higher-level food safety guarantee system.
Written by: Ying Zhang
Reviewed by: Chen Jianlan
Photo by: School Publicity Department
Release: Gu Haiyan
