To apply for a food production license, the following conditions shall be met: having a place for processing food raw materials and food processing, packaging and storage suitable for the variety and quantity of food to be produced, keeping the environment of the place clean and tidy, and keeping a prescribed distance from toxic and harmful places and other pollution sources.
There are production equipment or facilities suitable for the variety and quantity of food produced, and there are corresponding equipment or facilities for disinfection, changing clothes, washing, lighting, ventilation, corrosion prevention, dust prevention, fly prevention, rodent prevention, insect prevention, washing, wastewater treatment and garbage and waste storage. If the production process of health food has pretreatment procedures such as raw material extraction and purification, it is necessary to have raw material pretreatment equipment or facilities suitable for the variety and quantity of production. There are full-time or part-time food safety managers and rules and regulations to ensure food safety. It has a reasonable equipment layout and technological process to prevent the food to be processed from cross-contamination with direct food, raw materials and finished products, and to prevent the food from contacting with toxic and unclean substances. Other conditions stipulated by laws and regulations.