非典疫情的爆发和传播,反映了人类的生存或生活方式还存在着一定的问题,特别是一些食源性污染和疾病已严重危害公众的身体健康,引起社会的广泛关注。对此,民革江苏省委最近提出:为确保食品安全,必须建立食品污染物监测系统,开展有效的食品污染物监测和食物中毒预报工作。通过建立食品污染物监测网络,对可能发生的食品污染和食物中毒事件提前进行风险预测,及时采取必要措施,逐步完善食品安全控制体系。民革江苏省委的这一提案,引起了省有关部门的高度重视。省卫生厅召集有关部门和相关单位的专家进行讨论和研究,并就目前食品安全的基本状况、食品安全监测工作的有关情况和加强食品安全网建设研究等问题作了初步评估。同时就“建立食品中污染物监测与预警 The outbreak and spread of the SARS epidemic reflect that there are still some problems in the way of human existence or life style. In particular, some food-borne pollution and diseases have seriously endangered the public’s health and aroused wide public concern. In response, the People’s Revolutionary Provincial Party Committee of Jiangsu Province recently proposed: In order to ensure food safety, it is necessary to establish a food contamination monitoring system to carry out effective monitoring of food contaminants and food poisoning. Through the establishment of a network of food contaminants monitoring, the risk prediction of possible food contamination and food poisoning incidents could be advanced in advance and the necessary measures can be taken in time to gradually improve the food safety control system. The proposal of the People’s Liberation Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee has drawn great attention from the relevant departments of the province. Provincial Health Department called experts from relevant departments and relevant units for discussion and research. Preliminary assessment was made on the current situation of food safety, the status of food safety monitoring and the research on how to strengthen the construction of food safety net. At the same time ”to establish food contamination monitoring and early warning