Recently, the State Administration of Market Supervision issued the newly revised Code of Practice for Food Safety in Food Service (hereinafter referred to as "the Code").

The Code covers the standards and basic specifications for various aspects of food service such as food service establishments, food handling, cleaning operations, cleaning of food service utensils, and takeaway delivery, and is designed to guide food service providers to implement the main responsibility for food safety in accordance with the requirements of food safety laws, regulations, rules, and normative documents, to standardize food service operations, to enhance the ability of food safety management, and to ensure food safety. Food Safety. The Code came into force on October 1st.

"Norms" applies to food service providers, including food service operators and unit canteens and other main food service operations. Encourage and support food service providers to adopt advanced food safety management methods, the establishment of food service food safety management system, improve food safety management level; express meal information, quantity or weight of the main raw materials, to carry out the "oil, salt, sugar" action, to provide consumers with healthy and nutritious meals; reduce the use of disposable food utensils; prompt consumers to use disposable food utensils. The company will also reduce the use of disposable food and beverage utensils, and prompt consumers to carry out CD-ROM action to reduce waste.

The Code stipulates that food delivery personnel should maintain personal hygiene. Takeaway boxes (bags) should be kept clean and sterilized regularly. Third-party platform providers of online catering services and self-built website catering service providers should truthfully record the order information of online ordering, including the name of the food, the time of ordering, delivery personnel, delivery time and the address of the receipt of goods, and the information retention time shall not be less than six months.

In order to guide food service providers to regulate business behavior, implement food safety laws, regulations, rules and normative documents, fulfill the main responsibility for food safety, improve food safety management capabilities, and ensure food safety, the General Administration of Market Supervision revised the "Food Safety Code of Practice for Catering Services", which is hereby issued and shall come into force from October 1, 2018 onwards.