The Food and Drug Administration supervises the catering industry, and the Health Supervision Office of the Health Bureau manages public places, medical and health care, occupational health, school health and infectious disease management.

The Health Supervision Office is an administrative law enforcement agency under the Health Bureau, which carries out administrative law enforcement on behalf of the Health Bureau. The administrative level is half or one level lower than that of the Health Bureau. The national level where health supervision is located is the Health Supervision Center of the Ministry of Health, which is a subordinate unit of the Ministry of Health and carries out law enforcement on behalf of the Ministry of Health.

The Food and Drug Administration is under the management of the Ministry of Health at the provincial and national levels, but it is a bureau juxtaposed with the Health Bureau at the prefecture level and below, and it is an office of the government, which is higher than the health supervision.

The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for administrative supervision and technical supervision on the research, production, circulation and use of drugs (including Chinese herbal medicines, Chinese herbal pieces, Chinese patent medicines, chemical raw materials and their preparations, antibiotics, biochemical drugs, biological products, diagnostic drugs, radioactive drugs, narcotic drugs, toxic drugs, psychotropic drugs, medical devices, sanitary materials, pharmaceutical packaging materials, etc.);

responsible for the comprehensive supervision, organization and coordination of the safety management of food, health care products and cosmetics, and organizing the investigation and handling of major accidents according to law; Responsible for the examination and approval of health care products.

after the implementation of the food safety law, the supervision function of the catering industry was transferred from the health department (specifically, from the health supervision office) to the food and drug administration.

Extended information:

Application procedure for catering service license:

1. Application: The applicant submits an application to the "Food and Drug Administration Window" of the municipal administrative examination and approval service center.

2. Acceptance: If there are errors in the application materials that can be corrected on the spot, the applicant shall be allowed to correct them on the spot; If the application materials are incomplete or do not conform to the statutory form, the applicant shall be informed of all the contents that need to be corrected at once on the spot, and a Notice of Corrected Materials shall be issued to the applicant;

if the application materials are complete and conform to the statutory form, or the applicant submits all the supplementary materials as required, it will be accepted and a Decision on Acceptance of Catering Service License will be issued.

3. review: organize on-site review and acceptance according to the standards for the review of catering service licenses.

4. Decision: If the on-site review meets the standards, make a decision to approve the administrative license; Do not meet the standards, make a decision not to grant administrative license and explain the reasons in writing, and inform the applicant of the right to apply for administrative reconsideration or bring an administrative lawsuit according to law.

5. License issuance: If the application materials and on-site inspection submitted by the applicant meet the statutory conditions and standards, a decision shall be made to approve the administrative license, and a Catering Service License shall be issued within the statutory time limit.

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