Article 18 of the Anti-Food Waste Law stipulates that organ affairs management departments, in conjunction with relevant departments, will establish a system for evaluating and notifying the effectiveness of the work of organ canteens in combating food waste, and will incorporate the fight against food waste into the assessment of energy and resource conservation in public *** institutions and into the creation of frugal organ activities.
The Anti-Food Waste Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution in order to prevent food waste, safeguard national food security, carry forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, practice socialist core values, conserve resources, protect the environment, and promote sustainable economic and social development.
People's governments at all levels and their relevant departments shall establish anti-food waste supervision and inspection mechanisms, and promptly supervise and rectify the food waste problems found. Food production operators in the process of food production and operation of serious waste of food, the local people's government at or above the county level market supervision and management, commerce and other departments can be its legal representative or the main person in charge of the interview. Interviewed food production operators should immediately rectify.
Food, catering industry associations should strengthen industry self-discipline, according to the development and implementation of anti-food waste and other related group standards and industry self-regulatory norms, publicity, popularize the prevention of food waste knowledge, promote the advanced typical, guide the members to consciously carry out anti-food waste activities, wasteful behavior of the members to take the necessary self-discipline measures.
The significance of the Anti-Food Waste Law
1. To promote sustainable economic and social development on the basis of safeguarding national food security while advocating civilized, healthy, resource-saving, and environmentally friendly consumption patterns. "Ensure national food security" is not built on the basis of the nation's people scrimping and limiting food and beverage consumption, but to establish a "consumption but not waste" of green consumerism, open source but also to save money, to ensure that valuable food resources to play the most effective.
2, "comprehensive promotion of consumption," especially in the field of food and beverage consumption to encourage by no means lavish spending, a focus on ostentation, a lack of respect for food and other food waste behavior, but the people in pursuit of a higher quality of food and beverage consumption upgrades, is characterized by a variety of traditional food and drink, is a new marketing model to promote the standardized development of the food and beverage industry. The standardization of the development of the industry, so that the consumer power is stronger, more powerful.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - "The People's Republic of China Anti-Food Waste Law"