Cooking, Food & Wine

mete, of the Supreme People's Procuratorate recently issued endangers food security and related notification of duty crime of crimes, urged procuratorial organs at all levels to troubleshoot a batch of criminal cases and related crimes against food security clue to the case, investigation and food safety-related criminal cases involving corruption, bribery, dereliction of duty dereliction of duty. The circular points out that, procuratorial organs should broaden the source channels, from mass reporting, media coverage and gossip found clues about the crimes, note found behind the case against food security and law enforcement, Office of the administrative judicial personnel accepting bribes, abuse of power, dereliction of duty, practicing favoritism, and other job-related crimes clues, immediately transferred to the anti-corruption and bribery or against malfeasance departments Office for prosecution.

the "lean" incident, public security, industry and commerce, quality inspection and administrative supervision departments up to speed quickly, investigated the "lean" involved in pork production and circulation of illegal and criminal activities, and to related links suspected of violating discipline and job-related crimes investigation of a public officer, part of which has been transferred to judicial organs. As a responsible office supervision, anti-corruption function of procuratorial organs, also involved in investigating and handling cases at the first time, in the nationwide investigation "lean", combating crimes of endangering food security in the joint special operations, had played a positive role. In this context, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued in a timely manner, of the notification, the procuratorial organs at all levels involved in the investigation and handling crimes of endangering food security, deep digging behind the cases of job-related crimes, are of important significance.

in particular, the food safety behind the cases of job-related crimes there are basically two kinds of situations, a case of food safety has a direct relationship, including food supervision and management of inspection and quarantine, and other aspects of State officials for accepting bribes, abuse of power, dereliction of duty, practicing favoritism resulting in regulatory fall, the road pass null and void, thus causing serious food safety incidents. For this form of job-related crimes, can be widely applied in the criminal code both terms of punishment of the crime of abuse and neglect, or specific application of the Criminal Code amendment (h) provisions of the additional punishment of the food security of dereliction of duty. In recent years, cases involving food safety national public officers, almost all administrative accountability or party and administrative disciplinary measures, but has not been investigated for their criminal precedents. This dealt with "lean" incident, public officers had been transferred to judicial organs, it seems, food safety responsibilities "punishment than" end to the practice of formal.

another is that some regulatory duty crime cases involving the other subject matter, or of any public officer, and not directly related to food safety cases, but the relevant departments and the procuratorial authorities in the investigation of food safety events, through various channels have found clues of duty crime of these public officers. This situation look like "it was an accidental", is a public officer job-related crimes are a common form of exposure. For example, after some local mine disaster occurred or group events, often uncovered in the investigation and rehabilitation process one or two "bad" corrupt officials, their corruption and bribery has nothing to do with mine or group events, concerns of public opinion was raised at the mine and group events exposed and dealt with in the action, be achieved in the work against corruption "windfall".

procuratorial organs organization capable forces involved in the food safety investigations, taking the punishment behind job-related crimes in the case of food safety a key step, is also key, such crimes to acts of the judiciary severely punish according to law, not to the light punishment of means "preferential treatment". A time yilai, duties crime light criminal of phenomenon comparison highlight, from procuratorial organs of data display, 2005 to 2009 June, national was judgment guilty of duties crime defendant in the, sentenced pardon and suspended of total accounted for 69.7%; to involved mine disaster of duties crime for cases, 2006 National procuratorial organs Office investigated of this class malfeasance crime suspects in the, Court sentenced from criminal punishment 131 people, suspended 107 people, two item number in has judgment number in the accounted for 95.6%. In view of this, there will inevitably worry that public officer in cases involving food safety while being transferred to judicial organs, would finally be like those involving mine disaster of public officers, in a variety of reasons to exempt from punishment or sentenced to a suspended sentence?

nature bad food safety behind the cases of job-related crimes, against huge, must be severely punished according to law, not "raise high, gently put down". Only in this way, can we help build a solid dike for food safety, to maintain the authority and dignity of the law, and history make responsible accountable to the public.