Highlighting the precise supervision of key links in food and drug safety, cracking down on bottlenecks and difficulties in the entire chain of governance, and vigorously strengthening technological empowerment... Looking back at 2025, the national procuratorial organs have focused on the most concerned, direct, and realistic food and drug safety issues of the people, fulfilled their public interest litigation inspection functions in accordance with the law, responded to people's concerns with high-quality and efficient case handling, focused on solving the urgent and difficult needs of the people, and effectively ensured the "safety on the tip of the tongue" and medication safety of the people. On February 9th, the Supreme People's Procuratorate held a press conference on "Deepening the Supervision of Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation for Food and Drug Safety and Beneficial Practices". Zhang Xueqiao, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, introduced at the meeting that in January 2025, the Supreme People's Procuratorate deployed the "Food and Drug Safety and Beneficial Road" prosecutorial public interest litigation supervision activity. Procuratorial organs at all levels fully played their prosecutorial functions in public interest litigation, focusing on key areas and key links, and continuously increasing their efforts in handling cases. From January to November, a total of 24029 food and drug safety public interest litigation cases were filed and handled, accounting for 19% of the total number of public interest litigation cases, achieving significant results. Cracking the problem of segmented supervision in practical life, food and drug safety often involves multiple links such as production, circulation, and sales. The situation of "Jiulong Water Control" is quite common, which can easily lead to regulatory blind spots or buck passing. Regarding this, Zhang Xueqiao said that in order to solve the bottlenecks and difficulties in the entire chain of governance, the procuratorial organs in various regions have fully utilized the unique functions of public interest litigation supervision and collaborative litigation, focusing on the food and drug safety bottlenecks and difficulties in various links from production, circulation to consumption, actively breaking down barriers between departments and regions, and promoting the formation of a collaborative governance force for the entire chain of food and drug safety. According to Qiu Jinghui, Deputy Director of the Public Interest Litigation Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the unique value of prosecutorial administrative public interest litigation in "supervising" the lawful performance of duties and "coordinating" multi-party governance can become a key link to break down departmental barriers and connect regulatory breakpoints. Through three aspects, it can promote various regulatory entities to shift from "fighting on their own" to "collaborative governance", truly weaving a legal protection net for food and drug safety. ——Break down departmental barriers and strengthen cross departmental collaborative performance. In response to the performance bottlenecks caused by overlapping responsibilities and unclear division of labor in regulatory practice, the procuratorial organs fully utilize means such as consultation and prosecutorial suggestions to promote the connection of the broken regulatory chain. When handling the case of excessive antibiotics in eggs, the People's Procuratorate of Yunfu City, Guangdong Province, on the one hand, supervised the market supervision department to include missed sulfonamides, tetracyclines and other items in routine testing; On the other hand, we will promote the agricultural and rural sectors to strengthen the supervision of breeding sources. Through the "needle and thread" of prosecutorial supervision, the effective connection between "origin approval" and "market access" has been achieved. ——Breaking geographical boundaries and deepening cross regional cooperation and linkage. Food and drug products often circulate across regions, and it is difficult to rely solely on local supervision. Therefore, it is necessary for the procuratorial organs to promote cross regional linkage governance between the source and the end. Nearly 80% of fresh vegetables in Panzhou City, Guizhou Province come from Qujing City, Yunnan Province. The procuratorial organs of the two places have worked together across provinces to promote the management of "land" in Qujing, and 75 planting bases have implemented a certificate system; Panzhou manages the "stalls" well, intercepting more than 200 batches of substandard products in the wholesale process and investigating 8 batches of substandard products at supermarket terminals. ——Eliminate regulatory blind spots and achieve the integration of online and offline governance. In response to the regulatory blind spots brought about by the rapid development of new online formats, the procuratorial organs need to break down the information barriers and regulatory chains online and offline, and achieve cross scenario integrated governance. In handling the case of illegal drug sales on the Internet, the Beijing Railway Transport Procuratorate, in response to the hidden chaos of "selling banned drugs in disguised form of false inquiries", found out the hidden chain of illegal acts through online inspection and offline visits, successfully promoted the inclusion of such acts into effective supervision, and blocked the "hidden back door" of drug sales on the Internet. Strengthening technological support, Zhang Xueqiao introduced that with the development of the times, illegal means in the field of food and medicine are becoming increasingly covert, intelligent, and networked, and traditional "human wave tactics" and "experience based case handling" are no longer able to cope. In response to the pain points of "difficult clue discovery and investigation and evidence collection" in handling cases, the Supreme People's Procuratorate insists on using technology empowerment as a key lever to improve the quality and efficiency of supervision activities, transforming from "human driven" to "intelligent driven". ——Deepen the application of big data models and promote the transformation of legal supervision models. From January to November 2025, there will be a total of 42 big data legal supervision models in the field of food and medicine nationwide, and a number of useful and effective big data legal supervision models such as "adulteration of meat products" and "quality and safety of edible agricultural products" have emerged. ——Strengthen technical support and enhance the professional level of investigation and evidence collection. To effectively address the high demand for testing and identification in the field of food and medicine, the national procuratorial organs have established a technical support system of "fast screening+professional identification". During the supervision activity of "Food and Drug Safety and Beneficial Road", the Technical Information Research Center of the Supreme People's Procuratorate accepted 130 testing and identification cases in the food and drug field, a year-on-year increase of 116.7%, and solved a batch of qualitative and quantitative problems in difficult and complex cases. Zhong Fuxiong, Deputy Director of the Technical Information Research Center of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, introduced that the core of empowering food and drug public interest litigation cases through technological means is to shift supervision from "experience driven" to "data-driven", "model driven", and "technology driven". From January to November 2025, more than 3300 big data models were applied in the field of food and drug safety across 42 countries; In the field of public interest litigation such as food and drug safety, the procuratorial organs have developed and established 14 new technological methods; 4482 cases of model screening clues were filed on the highest inspection platform in various regions, and the number of entrusted appraisal cases accepted by the procuratorial technical department increased by 116.7% year-on-year. The effective support of technological means can improve the accuracy of case clue discovery by more than 30%, shorten the investigation and evidence collection cycle by 40%, effectively solve the problems of 'difficult clue discovery' and 'difficult investigation and evidence collection', and achieve the transformation from 'individual case handling' to 'similar case governance'. ”Zhong Fuxiong said. During the continuous deepening of the supervision activity "Food and Drug Safety Promotion", the number of prosecutorial suggestions and lawsuits in administrative public interest litigation increased by 14.6% and 45.6% respectively. The national procuratorial organs have supervised the rectification of more than 31000 central warehouses, grid warehouses, and self pickup points, effectively promoting the healthy development of community group buying into a legal and standardized track. Xu Xiangchun, Director of the Public Interest Litigation Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that the party group of the Supreme People's Procuratorate attaches great importance to the public interest litigation of food and drug safety. While affirming the effectiveness of supervision activities, it also clearly proposes to continue to deepen supervision activities. Next, the Public Interest Litigation Prosecution Office of the Supreme People's Procuratorate will conscientiously implement the deployment and requirements of the Central Political and Legal Work Conference and the National Conference of Prosecutors General. Based on the work in 2025, it will deepen the supervision of public interest litigation in the "Food and Drug Safety and Beneficial Road" prosecution, focusing on "precision, quality improvement, and effectiveness". Focusing on the "difficult points" and making targeted efforts to promote further improvement of supervision accuracy - the Supreme People's Procuratorate will guide localities to continue to adhere to the "small incision, big breakthrough" model, and combine local realities to lock in several areas with the strongest public feedback and the most concentrated problems for continuous breakthroughs. With the most precise focus, we will overcome the most prominent chronic diseases and effectively protect the people's "basket of vegetables" and "medicine box". Deepening technological empowerment and efficiency improvement, driving new breakthroughs in supervision quality and efficiency - While further promoting the construction of big data legal supervision models, the Supreme People's Procuratorate deepens the iterative upgrading and promotion of existing models. Relying on the "leading demonstration" mechanism, timely solidify replicable case handling points, evidence standards, and collaborative processes, and form replicable supervision rules and work guidelines. Pursuing practical results, benefiting the people, and ensuring that the effectiveness of supervision is more tangible - the Supreme People's Procuratorate will pay more attention to transforming the results of case handling into governance effectiveness, and promote the deepening and implementation of case based reform and governance. At the same time, more extensive and convenient channels for public reporting, suggestions from representatives and committee members, and voluntary participation from Yixin will be opened up, promoting the formation of a co governance pattern of "everyone participating and everyone supervising", and striving to transform the "insecurity" of the masses into a "visible sense of security". (New Society)