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Agricultural Products Quality And Safety Testing Organization Assessment Methods

Original Language Title: 农产品质量安全检测机构考核办法

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(December 12, 2007 the Ministry of agriculture released 7th January 12, 2008) Chapter I General provisions article to strengthen the management of agricultural product quality and safety testing organization, regulate the quality and safety testing organization assessment, according to the People's Republic of China agricultural product quality security law and other relevant laws, administrative laws and regulations, these measures are formulated.
    Assessment in these measures in article, refers to the people's Governments above provincial level departments of agriculture administration in accordance with the laws, regulations and requirements of the relevant standards and technical regulations, issued to the public with proof of the data and the results of the quality and safety testing organization criteria and competency assessment and validation activities.
    Article quality and safety inspection of agricultural products after passing the certification body assessment and measurement, to foreign agricultural products, agricultural inputs and environmental testing.
    Fourth Ministry of agriculture is responsible for supervision and administration of national agricultural products quality and safety inspection agency assessment work.
    Departments of agriculture administration of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities (hereinafter referred to as the provincial departments of agriculture administration) responsible for the administration of agricultural products quality safety supervision and administration of agency assessment of. Article fifth construction of agricultural product quality and safety testing organization, shall make an overall planning, rational distribution.
    Encourages testing resources sharing, promoting the construction of county-level integrated agricultural property agency.
    Chapter II basic conditions and the sixth agricultural products quality and safety testing institutions shall be established by law to ensure objectivity, impartiality and independence, engaged in inspection activities and bear the corresponding legal responsibility.
    Article seventh agricultural products quality and safety inspection agency shall have corresponding to its agricultural products quality and safety inspection activities carried out by the management and technical staff.
    Agricultural products quality and safety inspection of technicians should have the relevant background, and approved by the people's Governments above provincial departments of agriculture administration examination.
    Eighth agricultural products quality and safety inspection agency technical staff should be no less than 5 people, including mid-level and above no less than 40%.
    Head of technology and quality leader should have intermediate professional titles, and engaged in agricultural products ' quality safety-related work more than 5 years.
    Nineth agricultural products quality and safety inspection agency shall have corresponding to its agricultural products quality and safety inspection activities carried out by the detection equipment, instrument and equipment of up to 98%, with intact rate of equipment 100%.
    Article tenth of agricultural product quality safety testing organization should have fixed in conformity with inspection activities in the workplace and ensure that examination data accurate environment conditions.
    In related field experiments and breeding of laboratory animal testing shall also meet the requirements for quarantine, epidemic prevention and environmental protection.
    Detection of genetically modified organisms and their products in agriculture, should also prevent harm to human, animal and environmental conditions.
    11th agricultural products quality and safety inspection bodies shall establish quality management and quality assurance system.
    12th the quality and safety testing institutions should have relatively stable funding.
    Chapter III application and review section 13th for assessment of the quality and safety testing organization (hereinafter the applicant), shall be filed with the Ministry of agriculture and provincial departments of agriculture administration (hereinafter referred to as examination Office) a written application.
    Relevant departments under the State Council established by law or authorized by the agricultural products quality and safety inspection body, for examination and approval by the relevant authority to apply to the Ministry of agriculture.
    Other agricultural products quality and safety testing organization, make application to the provincial departments of agriculture administration.
    14th article applicants should to assessment organ submitted following material: (a) applications; (ii) institutions corporate qualification certificate or its authorized of proved file; (three) superior or about sector approved institutions set of proved file; (four) quality system file; (five) measurement certification situation; (six) near two years of typical test report 2 copies; (seven) other proved material.
    15th evaluation offices or institutions commissioned a technical review, is responsible for the application at first instance.
    16th inspection organs accepting the application, shall promptly notify the applicant and application materials will be sent to the technical review agencies; inadmissible, it shall promptly notify the applicant in writing and state the reasons.
    17th technical review body shall, within 10 working days from the date of receipt of application materials to complete the preliminary examination of the application materials and trial reports to the examination authority.
    Through the trial, assessment authority to arrange on-site review is not short-listed, assessment bodies shall issue a trial notice of not. 18th site assessment implementation review group in charge.
    Expert group formed by 3-5 reviewers.
    Assessors should have senior technical titles, agricultural products quality and safety inspection or related work for more than 5 years, and the examination of the Ministry of agriculture.
    Evaluation expert group shall, within 3 working days to complete the process and site assessment report to the examination authority.
    19th site assessment shall include the following: (a) the situation of the quality system, (ii) conditions of detection equipment and facilities, (iii) detection capability.
    The fourth chapter approval and certification section 20th inspection authority shall receive within 10 working days from the date of the on-site review report, make a decision on whether to pass the examination of the applicant.
    Through assessment, issued the People's Republic of China agricultural product quality and safety testing organization examination certificate (hereinafter referred to as the assessment of competency) and permits the use of agricultural product quality safety assessment marks, and shall be published.
    Not pass the examination, notify the applicant in writing and state the reasons.
    Article 21st of the examination certificate shall include the agricultural products quality and safety testing organization, detection range and validity of content.
    22nd provincial departments of agriculture administration of the examination certificate shall be issued within 15 working days of the Ministry of agriculture for the record.
    The fifth chapter continuity and change article 23rd the appraisal certificate is valid for 3 years.
    Certificates expire continue to be engaged in the quality and safety work, an application shall be submitted within six months before the expiration, renew of the examination certificate.
    24th in the validity of the certificate, agricultural products quality and safety testing organization, name or change of address of the legal representative, you should change with the original evaluation authority.
    25th in the certificate validity period, agricultural products quality and safety testing organization, one of the following circumstances, should the original evaluation authority re-apply for examination: (a) the testing institution to split or merge; (b) significant changes in the conditions of detection equipment and facilities, and (iii) detection projects. Sixth 26th Ministry of agriculture is responsible for the supervision and management of agricultural product quality safety inspection institutions to conduct proficiency testing and inspection.
    Does not meet the criteria, a rectification; it fails, by assessment authorities revoked its assessment of competency. 27th for the quality and safety testing organization of assessment of violations, and no units or individuals may approach the assessment report.
    Assessment bodies should carry out investigation to verify reported content, and the informer confidential.
    28th article assessment found that the quality and safety testing organization in the assessment of any of the following acts shall be warned serious, cancel the appraisal qualifications, not to proceed with his application for examination within one year of: (a) conceal the relevant information or deception; (b) bribery or other improper means.
    29th article agricultural quality security detection institutions has following behavior one of of, assessment organ should depending on situation cancellation its assessment certificate book: (a) where units revoked or corporate qualification end of; (ii) detection instrument equipment and facilities conditions occurred major changes, not has corresponding detection capacity, not by this approach provides again application assessment of; (three) unauthorized expanded agricultural quality security detection project range of; (four) law can cancellation detection institutions qualification of other case.
    Article 30th agricultural products quality and safety inspection body forged results or issuing false certificates, in accordance with the People's Republic of China article 44th of agricultural products quality safety law are punishable.
    Staff evaluation article 31st failed to perform their duties or abuse of powers, shall be subject to punishment.
    Seventh chapter supplementary articles article 32nd laws, administrative regulations and Department of Agriculture regulations provide otherwise on product testing organization assessment of agricultural inputs from its provisions.
                                                33rd article this way since January 12, 2008.