How to meet people’s necessary needs while curbing the coronavirus? Is the food supply ample during the Spring Festival?
Residents buy fresh vegetables at the Mengying market.
“The development zone has a smooth supply channel for daily necessities such as vegetables, rice, noodles, oil, meat, eggs, and milk, with sufficient supply, abundant varieties and stable prices.” said Hu Yaogang, head of the Market Supervision Comprehensive Law Enforcement Division of the Development Zone Market Supervision Sub-bureau.
To implement epidemic prevention and control measures and ensure the health and safety of residents when purchasing goods, the Market Supervision Sub-bureau has issued to relevant business sites 1,000 copies of the “Technical Guidelines for Epidemic Prevention and Control in Shopping Malls and Supermarkets”, 100 copies of “ Epidemic Prevention and Control in Agricultural Trade (Market Trade) Markets”, and 5,000 copies of the “Technical Guidelines for the Regular COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Restaurants”, and promoted epidemic prevention and control knowledge and related requirements through WeChat, electronic display screens, broadcasting, and banners, to consolidate the powerful synergy of joint prevention and control, and mass governance.
At the same time, they continued to inspect on places such as farmer’s markets, shopping malls, supermarkets, restaurants, and pharmaceutical stores, focusing on the price supervision of epidemic prevention supplies, and making every effort to ensure the supply of daily necessities such as flour, rice, and edible oil.
Hu Yaogang said that they have stepped up law enforcement, promptly investigated and dealt with illegal acts, to guarantee residents’ consumption of living materials. Up to now, more than 1,600 food businesses, 2,300 catering businesses, and more than 300 pharmacies have been investigated, more than 800 businesses units have been ordered to correct, and 1,500 law enforcement officers have been dispatched.
As the Spring Festival approaches, the Market Supervision Sub-bureau will further carry out law enforcement inspections on catering services and food safety, increase the intensity and frequency of inspections, and crack down on price violations in accordance with the law such as fabricating and spreading price increase information, hoarding and colluding with price increases to disrupt market order.
The officials of the Market Supervision Sub-bureau are checking the commodities in supermarket.
Chang Tingting, service manager of Ugrant Supermarket Mengying Store, was conducting a routine check on the goods on sale. She said that Ugrant Supermarket has an average daily passenger flow of about 7,000 people, and there are more than 20,000 kinds of commodities in the supermarket. “The Spring Festival is approaching, and we will increase the inventory to ensure sufficient supplies of daily necessities such as rice, flour, oil, meat, eggs, vegetables, etc., to meet the needs of residents.” Chang Tingting said.
Scan the traceability code.
In addition, all imported cold chain food counters in the supermarket have traceability codes. Customers can scan them with their mobile phones to see the product details and disinfection certificates before purchasing.
Customers were orderly purchasing goods and scanning QR codes to checkout at the Jiahui Supermarket Development Zone store. The manager Du Junli said that the supermarket has formulated an emergency plan. Each department of the purchasing center has dedicated personnel to count the daily sales information, monitor the purchase, sales and inventory of products such as rice, flour, oil, meat, eggs, vegetables, milk, and establish an inventory warning system for various products. If the inventory of some products cannot meet the 7-day sales volume, a red warning will be activated, and the supermarket will replenish the goods as soon as possible. For the key livelihood commodities, the supermarket will also focus on the early warning system.
“We have full-time outside sourcing staff for fresh food purchases, who stay in Beijing, Shandong and other places for a long time, to keep abreast of market price trends, ensure that the price of daily necessities is stable and the supply is sufficient to meet the holiday consumption needs of the general public.” Du Junli said.
Customers take temperature before entering the market.
Customers took temperatures and showed their health codes before entering the Mengying Agricultural Trade Comprehensive Market in the Development Zone. According to statistics, the daily maximum passenger flow of the Mengying Agricultural Products Comprehensive Market can reach 10,000, and there are more than 90 merchants and retail businesses of various types.
Guo Wanjiang, head of the market management office, said that in order to strengthen the epidemic prevention and control, the market only retains one entry and exit channel, with automatic temperature measuring guns and special personnel. They disinfect the whole place twice a day, and ventilate after closing the market. All merchants in the market take nucleic acid test every 7 days.
Merchant displays purchase ledger.
The Mengying Market requires all merchants, especially cold chain food operators, to establish a commodity ledger, specifying the purchase channels, documents and daily sales, so that information can be traced, and liability can be pursued.
“At present, all merchants in the market have sufficient stocks with complete varieties. As market manager, we will continue to do a good job in daily epidemic prevention and control, and implement real-time supervision from the channels and circulation areas to ensure food safety during the Spring Festival!” Guo Wanjiang said.
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