Exposure of food shady might be encouraged

The issue of the food safety of the foreign giants once again touches people. According to exposure, Shanghai Fuxi Company, a supplier of companies such as McDonald's and KFC, will expire more than seven months of stinky meat and extend its “shelf life” by one year, and will make chilled chicken skin and chicken breast for over two months. Mai Le Ji."

All kinds of behaviors are awful. Although Shanghai Fuxi Co., Ltd. has been seized, the question raised by the incident has only just begun.

The first reaction of many people is that such a serious problem is why nobody is supervised?

Indeed, China's food safety is mainly dependent on the supervision of the inspection of enterprises and food sampling, and it is not difficult for enterprises to get through with various means. The relaxed environment has condoned the unscrupulousness of some food companies. In the report, the confession of “provision of expired foods prioritized in China” truly relentlessly refracted loopholes in China's food safety regulatory mechanism.

However, after the anger, we have to think about it, and we have to face a lot of difficulties in stepping up supervision. It is easy to be overshadowed by the company's elaborate rehearsals by strengthening job inspections. You see, Fuxi Company has a special person to make two sets of statements to check.

If you strengthen the spot inspection efforts? Then, if it is a national food census, it will lead to a dramatic increase in personnel and testing costs. If it is a specific step-by-step check, then who should strengthen this specific?

In fact, the fundamental problem is information asymmetry. The hidden nature and diversity of food safety violations make the timeliness and effectiveness of supervision activities lag behind. It is particularly difficult to make information illegal and difficult to investigate.

However, this dilemma is not without solution. Like most illegal activities, it is difficult and costly to discover from the outside, but as long as internal participants “reverse the water,” the case will be broken. Food Safety This cat-and-dog battle involves the vital interests of everyone. We should have launched the supervision of the entire people and let the offenders have nowhere to escape. However, why is it still unannounced visits by reporters?

The reason is related to the fact that the report award is too low. Looking at some food safety reporting incentives in some localities, the author found that the whistleblowers have obtained some important evidence, but did not directly verify the illegal facts, provided investigation clues, did not cooperate with the case investigation, and the reporting situation was roughly in line with the investigation facts. Rewards with a value of 1% or less can be obtained, and the amount of reported reward for each case does not exceed 50,000 yuan in principle.

In contrast, foreign incentives obviously give power. In 2012, former UBS employees were awarded US$104 million in awards for reporting UBS’s tax evasion. The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission also stipulated that if the report information eventually led to the SEC receiving a fine of more than US$1 million, the whistleblower could be allocated a bonus equal to 10% to 30% of the fine. Under the huge temptation, "Infernal Affairs" have been staged, and high-quality, extremely valuable reporting information has come.

Obviously, people are willing to choose a more just way to get money when the income from reporting violations is higher than that from participation in illegal profits. This mechanism truly realizes the human nature of constraining human nature, and uses the power of the market to supervise the market, and it is natural to achieve a lot of wins.

In view of this, it is imperative to revise the relevant measures and substantially increase food safety reporting and rewards. If the revised food safety law is followed, heavy penalties will be imposed on illegal companies, and under the clear distinction between rewards and penalties, the food safety chaos will fail.

Illegal food safety companies are getting dark. Please close your eyes and beware of your employees.