State Food and Drug Administration Emergency Notice
Emergency Notice on Strictly Preventing the Inflow of Unqualified Disposable Chopsticks into the Food Service Segment
Food and Drug Administration, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health (bureau) of each province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government:
There have been media reports of irregularities in the way some chopstick manufacturers are Processing of disposable chopsticks. In order to prevent non-compliance with safety standards of disposable chopsticks into the food service sector, to effectively protect consumer food safety, please quickly organize the food service units to purchase and use of disposable chopsticks to supervise and inspect the situation, and at the same time to carry out supervisory sampling. If it is found that the disposable chopsticks purchased by food service units have problems affecting food safety, the food service units should be supervised to stop using them immediately and destroy them. Those found to have violated the relevant provisions of the Food Safety Law and its implementing regulations shall be dealt with seriously in accordance with the law. At the same time, the source of the problematic chopsticks will be promptly informed of the production and distribution and other regulatory authorities.
Please report the supervision and inspection situation to the State Food and Drug Administration Food Safety Supervision Department by the end of April.
Office of the State Food and Drug Administration
March 18, 2010
Ministry of Commerce and other requirements to reduce the use of disposable chopsticks
June 17, 2010, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the State Administration of Taxation, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the State Forestry Administration, the State Food and Drug Administration jointly issued the "On the food and food service in the restaurant and food distribution", the State Food and Drug Administration. The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) jointly issued the "Notice on Reducing the Use of Disposable Chopsticks in the Catering and Restaurant Industry" (Shangshangmao Fa [2010] No. 220), requiring the catering and restaurant industry to reduce the use of disposable chopsticks. This measure is to implement the "General Office of the State Council on the in-depth implementation of national energy-saving action notice" (State Office of the State Council [2008] No. 16) spirit, and continue to promote the "reduction of the use of disposable chopsticks" work in-depth and effectively achieve results in the food and beverage industry to form a good atmosphere of saving resources and protecting the environment and to carry out.
"Notice" requires full understanding of the importance of reducing the use of disposable chopsticks, pointed out that: disposable chopsticks, the use of a large number of health and environmental issues, the community has strongly reflected. Strengthen the production, circulation and recycling of disposable chopsticks supervision, reduce the use of disposable chopsticks, promote the use of disposable chopsticks, is the implementation of the scientific concept of development, the construction of resource-saving and environmentally friendly society is an important initiative. All regions and departments should support the implementation of the initiative on the basis of the content of the "disposable chopsticks" for the production, circulation and use of the outstanding problems in the consumption of further effective measures to effectively reduce the use of disposable chopsticks.
"Notice" requires that all departments in accordance with their respective functions, the establishment of a working mechanism, collaboration, close cooperation, and jointly do a good job "to reduce the use of disposable chopsticks" of the relevant work. Business sector at all levels to do a good job of catering operations and consumption of guidance. Development and reform, forestry departments should reasonably adjust and continuously optimize the industrial structure of forest products, limit new disposable chopsticks production enterprises, regulate the production of disposable chopsticks by existing enterprises, and improve the standard of disposable chopsticks. Quality inspection departments should strengthen the supervision of disposable chopsticks production enterprises, supervise the production enterprises to improve the technical conditions of production and ensure that the production is organized in accordance with the standards. The tax department should further study the adjustment of tax policies to provide policy support for reducing the use of disposable chopsticks. Food and drug supervision and departments still responsible for food safety supervision of catering should strengthen the supervision of disposable chopsticks. Commerce and development and reform departments should establish a mechanism for recycling disposable chopsticks, and set up recycling points in consumption-concentrated areas in cities to realize the reuse of resources. Environmental protection departments should strengthen cooperation and effectively promote the reduction of the use of disposable chopsticks related work.
"Notice" put forward, in order to expand the social impact, so that this work to continue to effectively promote, around the world, the departments should give full play to associations and organizations in the strengthening of industry self-regulation, standardize corporate behavior, and other aspects of the role, and further carry out a variety of forms of social initiatives and related activities, to do a good job of relevant national laws and regulations, as well as the standard of the publicity and implementation of the work of the processors, catering enterprises continue to enhance awareness of resource conservation and environmental protection. Enhance the awareness of resource conservation and environmental protection, so as to reduce the use and advocate the non-use of disposable chopsticks as a conscious action in daily business management. Catering enterprises with fixed business premises should take the initiative to provide clean, hygienic, safe and reliable recyclable chopsticks. Non-fixed business premises that must provide disposable chopsticks, as well as take-away and food delivery enterprises, should use disposable bamboo chopsticks as much as possible, strictly control the quality of chopsticks hygiene, and effectively do a good job of recycling. The news media and public opinion should give full play to their role in guiding the public, vigorously publicizing the successful practices and typical experiences of advanced enterprises in reducing the use of disposable chopsticks, so as to create a favorable atmosphere for reducing the use of disposable chopsticks. All kinds of related enterprises should consciously accept the supervision of the people and all walks of life, and gradually standardize the production and circulation of disposable chopsticks, and replace disposable chopsticks with safe and hygienic recyclable chopsticks.
The Notice further requires that all regions and departments should strengthen guidance and supervision, and the relevant industry associations should guide enterprises to exercise strict self-discipline, vigorously advocate the scientific consumption concepts of green consumption, moderate consumption, and healthy eating, and implement the "reduction of the use of disposable chopsticks" into all aspects through the establishment of relevant rules and regulations. Reduce the use of disposable chopsticks" by establishing and improving relevant rules and regulations. Encourage small and medium-sized catering enterprises that use more disposable chopsticks to expeditiously set up facilities for cleaning, sterilizing and storing reusable chopsticks to ensure that they meet safety and hygiene standards, so as to create good conditions for consumers to reduce or not use disposable chopsticks. To take the form of publicity and encouragement and guidance measures that are popular among the public, to strengthen the guidance of consumers, so that the reduction and non-use of disposable chopsticks has become a conscious action of food and beverage consumption. To "reduce the use of disposable chopsticks" as an important part of the activities related to the construction of resource-saving, environmentally friendly society, to enhance the popularity and durability of the publicity, to win the widespread understanding and support of consumers.
"Notice" requires that all regions and departments should formulate relevant policies and measures accordingly to encourage and support enterprises to improve supporting facilities to reduce the use of disposable chopsticks to create favorable conditions. At the same time, to further strengthen market supervision, organized from time to time to reduce the use of disposable chopsticks, advocate the use of disposable chopsticks work inspection. To provide reusable chopsticks and do not meet the hygiene requirements of the enterprise, to order rectification; do not meet the quality, hygiene requirements of the disposable chopsticks, should be ordered to withdraw from the market and tracking and supervision, to prevent re-entry into the market.
Disposable chopsticks banned in Shaanxi Province
The "Shaanxi Provincial Circular Economy Promotion Regulations" will be promulgated and implemented on December 1, 2011.Starting from December 1, 2011, Shaanxi Province will prohibit food and beverage enterprises from providing disposable chopsticks to consumers, and any operator violating the regulations will be ordered by the Food and Drug Administration to make corrections within a certain period of time, and if it fails to make corrections after that period of time, it will impose a fine of 500 yuan or more than 2,000 yuan. A fine of 500 yuan or more than 2,000 yuan or less; and a fine of 50 yuan or more than 200 yuan or less for individual operators of food and beverage.