Article 52 The food safety supervision and administration department shall make interpretations and explanations of the possible hazards of relevant foods while releasing information in accordance with Article 82 of the Food Safety Law.

Article 53 The departments of health administration, agriculture administration, quality supervision, industrial and commercial administration management and food and drug supervision and administration shall publicize the e-mail addresses or telephones to receive consultations, complaints and reports, in accordance with Article 80 of the Food Safety Law, reply to, verify and handle the received consultations, complaints and reports, and record and keep them.

Article 54 The departments of industry and information and commerce under the State Council shall, based on duties, formulate the development planning and industrial policies for the food industry, take steps to boost the optimization of industrial structure, strengthen the guidance of the construction of honesty-credit system in the food industry and promote the sound development of the food industry.

Chapter IX Legal Liability

Article 55 Where the production and trading conditions of the food producers and traders have changed and failed to be handled according to Article 21 of the regulations herein, the relevant competent departments shall order them to make corrections and impose warning on them. If serious consequences are caused, penalty shall be imposed in accordance with Article 85 of the Food Safety Law.

Article 56 Where the catering service provider formulates and implements the raw materials purchase control failing to comply with Clause 1 of Article 31 of the regulation herein, penalty shall be imposed in accordance with Article 86 of the Food Safety Law.

Where the catering service provider fails to inspect the foods and raw materials to be processed, or still processes and uses the foods that have gone bad or with other unusual sensory properties failing to comply with Clause 2 of Article 31 of the regulation herein, penalty shall be imposed in accordance with Article 85 of the Food Safety Law.

Article 57 Penalty shall, in accordance with Article 87 of the Food Safety Law, be imposed in the following situations:

(1) where the food production enterprise fails to comply with Article 26 of the regulation herein to set up and implement the food safety management system;

(2) where the food production enterprise fails to comply with Article 27 of the regulation herein to formulate and implement the production process control or there are situations that do not meet the requirement of control in the food production and rectification measures are adopted without complying with provisions;

(3) where the food production enterprise fails to comply with Article 28 of the regulation herein to record safety management in the food production and keep relevant records;

(4) where the trading enterprise engaging in food wholesale fails to comply with Article 29 of the regulation herein to record and keep sales information or reserve sales receipts;

(5) where the catering service enterprise fails to comply with Clause 1 of Article 32 of the regulation herein to regularly maintain, rinse and adjust and test facilities and devices; and

(6) where the catering service provider fails to comply with Clause 2 of Article 32 of the regulation herein to rinse and sterilize tableware and kitchenware or use them without rinsing and sterilizing.

Article 58 Where food additives are imported without complying with Article 40 of the regulation herein, they shall be confiscated by the entry and exit inspection and quarantine bureau. Where the goods value of illegally imported food additives is no less than 10,000 yuan, fine of more than 2,000 yuan and less than 50,000 yuan shall be imposed. Where the goods value is more than 10,000 yuan, fine of more than twice and less than five times of the goods value shall be imposed.

Article 59 Where the medical institution fails to comply with Article 8 of the regulation herein to report relevant diseases information, the administrative department of public health shall order it to make corrections and a warning shall be given.

Article 60 Where the unit in which food safety accident occurs fails to comply with Article 43 of the regulation herein to adopt measures and report, in accordance with Article 88 of the Food Safety Law, penalty shall be imposed.

Article 61 Where the local people's government at or above the county level fails to perform the legal duty of food safety supervision and administration so that in the administrative region occurs major food safety accident, which has caused serious social effect, such punishments as recording a serious demerit, degrading, dismissing or expelling shall be imposed on directly responsible persons-in-charge and other directly responsible persons by law.

Where the departments at or above the county level of health administration, agriculture administration, quality supervision, industrial and commercial administration management and food and drug supervision and administration or other relevant administrative departments fail to perform the legal duty of food safety supervision and administration, lack daily supervision and inspection or abuse authority, neglect their duties and play favoritism and commit irregularities, the punishment of recording a serious demerit or degrading shall be imposed on directly responsible persons-in-charge and other directly responsible persons by law; if serious consequences are caused, the punishment of dismissing or expelling shall be given, and the main responsible person shall take the blame and resign.

Chapter X Supplementary Provisions

Article 62 The denotation of the following terms of the regulation herein:

Food safety risk assessment refers to the scientific evaluation of possible detrimental effects on people's health caused by biological, chemical and physical hazards in the foods and food additives, including hazards identification, depiction of hazards features, exposure assessment and depiction of risk features.

The catering service refers to the service activities of providing foods and consumption place and facilities for consumers through instant processing, commercial sales and service labor.

Article 63 The edible farm product quality safety risk monitoring and risk assessment shall be conducted by the agriculture administration of the people's government at or above the county level in accordance with the Law on Agricultural Product's Quality Safety of the People's Republic of China.

The supervision and administration on foods at frontier ports shall be implemented by the entry and exit inspection and quarantine bureau in accordance with the Food Safety Law and the regulation herein as well as relevant laws and administrative regulations.

The food and drug supervision and administration department shall conduct strict supervision and administration on the foods that have been claimed to have particular health care function, with the specific measures separately formulated by the State Council.

Article 64 The regulation herein shall enter into effect as of the date of its promulgation.

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