The Obstacles Faced by the Naational Agency of Drug and Food Control (NA-DFC) of Pekanbaru in Performing the Responsibilities for the Distribution of School Children Food and Snacks (PJAS) Containing Hazardous Substances in Pekanbaru

Fuadi, Ahmad and Hamzah, Rosyidi and Admiral, Admiral and Adinda, Fadhel Arjuna (2021) The Obstacles Faced by the Naational Agency of Drug and Food Control (NA-DFC) of Pekanbaru in Performing the Responsibilities for the Distribution of School Children Food and Snacks (PJAS) Containing Hazardous Substances in Pekanbaru. In: the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Sciencee and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020).

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Abstract

The high number of business practitioners selling food and snacks that do not comply with the standards established in the laws and regulations at the elementary school areas in Pekanbaru city should be a special concern for authorized officers. Food and snacks containing food additives will be dangerous for people’s health if consumed by people. The practice of selling food and snacks containing hazardous substances is not identified directly by the consumers since the form and the taste of the food and snacks are fantastic, and they are sold at cheap price and they do not have direct effects but it can harm the people after some times. The business practitioners mostly sell these kinds of food and snacks around the elementary schools in Pekanbaru city. The target of the business practitioners is school-age children that, based on their age, still do not have critical thinking against food and snacks they buy. The elementary school children, as kids, when purchasing snacks, only look at the form and the taste of the food and snacks without considering the substances contained in the food and snacks. From a study that had been conducted, the obstacle faced by the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (NA-DFC) of Pekanbaru in monitoring the business practitioners who sold food and snacks to children at the elementary school areas in Pekanbaru was that the authority for distributing Food additives was held by the Department of Trade and Industry. This made the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (NA-DFC) was unable to control which one has the rights; the business practitioners secretly used hazardous food additives for snacks they produced. Also, the internal obstacle faced by the NA-DFC was an insufficient number of supervisors. The NA-DFC of Pekanbaru only has 40 supervisors while the NA-DFC work area in Pekanbaru comprises the whole Riau province with 12 regencies and cities.

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