Recommend Sina blogger: Dundun think tank's article "How big is the impact of unlicensed catering on food safety?" The excerpts are as follows:

... Objectively speaking, the harm of unlicensed catering to food safety is not much higher than that of licensed catering. It is not difficult to understand this truth. Many real food safety violations are the so-called hidden rules of knowledgeable people. It is precisely because they know that their actions are illegal that they will "obey the law" on the surface. The reason is also very simple. The probability and frequency of being investigated without a license are much higher than that of legal units.

This leads to a question that may trouble many friends: Since the harm is similar, or to some extent, the probability of food safety violations in legal units may be higher than that in unlicensed units, why is the punishment amount of unlicensed units the highest in the Food Safety Law?

The answer to this question should start with the food industry in China. It can be said that the entry threshold of the food industry in China is very low, which is related to social development. From our childhood, we can find that anyone who has a pot and a few side dishes at the gate of the park can enter the food industry. However, with the development of society, this original social law without access threshold can no longer adapt to the current level of social development, which will inevitably lead to chaos in the food industry, adding illegal substances for profit, abusing food additives without conscience, etc., which can be seen from the current grim situation of food safety. Why are there so many food safety incidents now? In fact, from the perspective of social development, these are the sequelae of China's previous food industry without access threshold.

Then why is unlicensed catering subject to the most severe blow? First of all, the person in charge of unlicensed catering cannot be located. We know that once food safety violations occur, it is necessary to locate the person in charge, and the legal food units that have obtained valid certificates are given official records and locks. In other words, you can't run away if you want to, but unlicensed catering is another situation. Once food safety violations occur, many people are unable to locate the person in charge. Come without a trace. And consumer rights protection is almost impossible. Second, conniving at unlicensed catering is unfair to other legal units. In fact, people in the catering industry have a feeling that it is getting more and more difficult to open a catering unit nowadays, and the threshold of food operation is getting higher and higher, and it is necessary to spend energy and money on kitchen renovation and charging food knowledge. If unlicensed catering is the same as legal catering, it is the biggest unfairness for practitioners who strictly implement food operation norms. Thirdly, China's food law is gradually improving the entry threshold of the food industry, which will make the food industry practitioners pass a series of entry thresholds and keep out some people who are not well educated and are not suitable for this field. In the words of a high-level decision-maker, China does not need so many food practitioners, but we need standardized and conscientious practitioners. ...

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