The Measures for the Administration of Food Business License clearly states that hot food refers to the ready-to-eat food which is made of raw materials after rough processing, cutting, steaming, boiling, cooking, frying, frying, roasting and so on, and is eaten at a certain heat state, including foods processed by cooking methods such as hot pot and barbecue.

food business must be licensed first.

Article 4 of the Measures for the Administration of Food Business License stipulates: (1) To apply for a food business license, one must first obtain legal subject qualifications such as a business license. (2) An enterprise as a legal person, a partnership enterprise, a sole proprietorship enterprise, an individual industrial and commercial household, etc., takes the subject specified in the business license as the applicant. (3) For the canteens of government agencies, institutions, social organizations, private non-enterprise units, enterprises and other bidding units, the applicant shall be the subject specified in the registration certificate or business license of legal person registration certificate of government agencies or institutions and social organizations.

main formats of food business

① Paragraph 2 of Article 11 of the Measures for the Administration of Food Business License stipulates: "The main formats of food business are divided into food sales operators, catering service operators and unit canteens.

② If a food business operator applies for operating through the network, establishing a central kitchen or engaging in collective meal delivery, it shall be marked in brackets after the main business format. "

food business items are divided into two categories: sales and manufacturing. 11 items

(1) food sales. Paragraph 3 of Article 11 of the Measures for the Administration of Food Business License stipulates:

① Sales in prepackaged foods (including frozen food, excluding frozen food).

②. Bulk food sales (including frozen food, excluding frozen food).

③ Special food sales (health food, formula food for special medical use, infant formula milk powder and other infant formula foods).

④ sales of other foods.

(2) food production and sales.

① selling of hot food

② selling of cold food

③ selling of raw food

④ selling of pastry food

⑤ selling of homemade drinks

⑤ selling of other foods

Five requirements for applying for food business license

Provisions in Article 11 of the Administrative Measures for Food Business License: (1) environmental conditions of the place; (2) Conditions of equipment and facilities; (3) Personnel system conditions; (4) Layout process conditions; (5) Other conditions stipulated by laws and regulations.

On-site verification is not required when applying for sales in prepackaged foods

Paragraph 1 of Article 16 of the Measures for the Administration of Food Business License stipulates: "The local food and drug supervision and administration department at or above the county level shall examine the license application materials submitted by the applicant. If it is necessary to verify the substantive contents of the application materials, on-site verification shall be conducted. If you only apply for sales in prepackaged foods (excluding frozen food), and if the food business license changes without changing the facilities and layout, you can not conduct on-site verification. "

the validity period of the food business license is 5 years

Article 19 of the Measures for the Administration of Food Business License stipulates: "The date of issuing the food business license is the date when the licensing decision is made, and the validity period is 5 years."