After hearing the OC’s introduction of the general food safety plan and relevant measures, as well as food-borne doping prevention measures, the experts had an unanimous opinion that the food safety assurance system established by the OC is complete and efficient; the principle of ensuring food safety by preventing contamination at source and keep the supervised entities enclosed is well observed, and food safety assurance and food-borne doping prevention measures are effective. The OC has established a food supervision system that covers the whole process from farm to fork, and selected the food enterprises with sound food safety quality control system as the food suppliers of the Championships so as to ensure food safety and prevent food-borne doping.

Experts gave the following suggestions to the OC: 

1)
Give a priority to the prevention of microbial contamination of food
2)
All food safety supervision authorities should monitor the chain of processes
3)
The enterprises should record the chain of custody for their supplies and keep all relevant files. The supervision authorities should perform efficient inspection and keep the record for their activity
4)
Prevent contamination from the beginning of the production  and  stop any illegal addition to food
5)
Intensify inspection to designated food suppliers and hotels, and further improve the measures taken according to the inspection results

The OC will further improve the working plan of food safety assurance according to the experts’ suggestions and implement the food safety measures.

For more information on the Food Safety Measures, please see the following link.