China Food Safety Tender

Project ID P162178Region East asia and pacific Commitment Amount Us 300.00 millionTotal Project Cost Us 450.00 million Concept DescriptionThe proposed project would support implementation of the Food Safety Law at the national and subnational level. It will also support specific food safety improvement activities in Shandong Province and in the Municipality of Chengdu in Sichuan Province. The proposed project would consist of the following four components Component 1 National Regulatory Performance and Supervision. This component aims to establish practices to be applied in order to ensure the effective and consistent implementation of the 2015 Food Safety Law at all levels. It will improve the efficiency of national and provincial food safety regulatory agencies by introducing effective risk-based food safety control systems laboratory testing monitoring and analytical capacities. The project aims to upgrade the on-going national-level food safety capacity building activities administered by the CFDA especially in the areas of risk-based food safety control systems expand their coverage. Communication to the public will be included to promote the use of social co-governance approaches. Capacity building will be included to address identified needs amongst key stakeholders. Component 2 Food Safety Supervision Process Model. This component aims to support regulatory authorities in Shandong Chengdu and in participating counties within their jurisdiction to develop a Supervision Food Safety Control model with the guidance from the CFDA. The component would support an effort towards harmonization of this model across project locations. This complements the national level capacity building program supported by Component 1 working directly with all staff involved in enforcement both in the field and in laboratories. The component would also support the development of a traceability system that can be applied across ProvincialMunicipal boundaries and across food value chains. It will develop a co-governance model across the selected value chains from farm to fork linking the supervision of and support for all the actors at each stage in the chain. Component 3 Whole Value Chain Food Safety Control Model. This component will support development of a Whole Value Chain Food Safety Control model in the selected value chains i.e. pork in Chengdu and aquaculture in Shandong which will be designed to be sustainable and replicable across other products. The component will use science and technology to build food safety into the production processes and will implement improvements such as traceability and cold chain systems in the selected value chains from farm to fork. It will also develop a consistent system of governance across major producers their supply chain partners and their retail outlets. Systems will focus on managing risks at each stage of the value chain. The project would aim to support and incentivize Small an