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The new rules apply to catering service providers, platforms, distribution units through the network to provide catering services in the process of food safety management. The new regulation applies to the management of food service providers, platforms, and distribution units providing food service through the network in the process of food safety. In addition, food sales operators to provide food service through the network, also refer to the implementation of this provision.

Distribution

Meals prevented from being "tampered with"

In order to prevent takeaway meals from being "tampered with" during the distribution process, the new regulations require that packaged food containers should be capped or sealed; takeaway packaging sealing labels or disposable seals should be used. The new rules require that packaged food containers should be capped or sealed; takeaway sealing tags or one-time sealing of the outer bag and other sealing methods should be used, and the sealing tags and outer bag opening should not be recoverable after opening. In the distribution process, should not open the food outer packaging, the occurrence of food contamination should be terminated distribution.

"The Code requires that the sealing label or the outer packaging bag mouth can not be recovered after opening, is to ensure that the food from leaving the restaurant to the hands of the customer during this time, has not been opened, to avoid the risk of malicious human openings in the distribution process, or in the process of distribution of the occurrence of non-human factors leading to packaging anomalies. Consumers can also detect problems in time through the status of the seal." As one of the drafting unit of the new norms, China Cuisine Association President Fu Longcheng said, for ordinary consumers, takeaway packaging seal or the use of disposable sealing bags, will undoubtedly allow people to eat more assured. The quality and safety of food supplied through online catering services should be consistent with that of dine-in food. In addition, raw food and aquatic products and other food with stringent distribution temperature requirements should not be sent out.

Labeling

Food preparation time is provided with the meal

Not only should the takeaway be labeled with information such as the time limit for consumption, the delivery should also be "as soon as possible". The new rules put forward, into the network food service providers should be provided with food production time, the recommended time limit for consumption and other food-related information.

According to the network order food production, the same order of food should be produced at the same time, can not be produced at the same time, should be reasonable arrangements for the order of meals, the first production of food easy to save. Food production should be packaged immediately after distribution, the perishable food to be stored temporary storage time should not exceed 1 hour, the temporary storage temperature is suitable for hot storage of more than 60, cold storage is suitable for 8 below.

Background

Holding the "last hurdle" of food safety

Doubt

Catering industry whether the additional cost

Increase in takeaway seals after the increase in the cost of catering companies, which in turn will be passed on to consumers? In this regard, some catering companies said that after the implementation of the new regulations, there will be no additional so-called "sealing fee".

In this regard, Fu Longcheng explained that the current Beijing catering use takeaway "sealing label" is a common practice, but also catering enterprises to ensure that the distribution of food safety is one of the methods. This practice is not a new requirement, only the Beijing version of the "norms" of the existing operation into the standard text. From the standard management point of view, the vast majority of catering enterprises have consciously carry out takeaway catering food sealing or sealing, in order to avoid the distribution process occurs in the malicious open risk, minimize the business and consumers involved in food safety risk issues.

The bag was hit with three staples

"We started sealing the label a long time ago, from the day we opened the store, more than a year, right." In the morning, the owner of a breakfast store in Yizhuang was busy sealing a steady stream of orders for takeout.

Breakfast shop

"Customers are assured that we are assured"

A doughnut store opened in a sunken plaza, which requires an escalator to go downstairs. Although a Western-style brand chain is right across the street, the doughnut store is doing well. A constant stream of takeout riders run down the elevator to pick up food at the doughnut store. The clerk kept processing the orders in his hand, he packed the doughnuts and congee separately, then put them into paper bags together, and finally pressed them with a stapler. Because there are too many orders, he did not even have time to take care of the dine-in customers, can only look up from time to time to ask a few words: "Hello, the doughnuts, congee are available, what do you want to eat?"

Another breakfast store clerk is completely unaware of the new rules today, but he is in the hands of the takeaway package seal, "the boss has been asked to use a stapler to press the dead".

Distributors

"I hope all takeaways will be sealed"

There is a corner while resting, while eating buns of the boy revealed that sometimes too many orders, busy, will see the takeaway did not seal the sign, "honestly, we can not control this, we are the runners. We can't control this, we are an errand boy, sealing the label or not, it's the business. If the customer refuses to accept, it is also a matter with the business. Moreover, the customer is to eat well, have not met on the sealing of the special really."

Platform

Supervise merchants to use takeout seal

The relevant person in charge of Meituan Takeout Beijing said that the platform is actively guiding takeout operators to use the takeout seal as soon as possible, and in the offline promotional activities for some catering merchants to issue free of charge. The platform will soon push the requirement of using the takeaway seal to all the merchants through the system background.

Hungry for the first time in April, through a variety of forms of online and offline, advocating and urging the Beijing local takeaway catering merchants to use food safety seals in accordance with the requirements of the Code, and recently customized the first batch of "food safety seals" for Fengtai, Haidian part of the merchants to distribute free of charge, as of now **** distribution of 600,000 copies.

The Beijing Catering Industry Association has also joined forces with the Hungry Momma platform and catering enterprises*** to launch the "Merchants' Peace of Mind Coalition" public welfare activities, advocating the use of "food safety seal" by catering merchants to strengthen the awareness of the responsibility of delivery food safety, and to promote the use of "Food Safety Seal" in the special period of time. ***The company's goal is to provide a safe and secure environment in which to build and maintain a safe and secure business.

Merchants

Responding to the new regulations, there is early preparation

Just to the meal time, the mall yellow, blue, wearing a variety of colors coat takeaway riders, shuttling in the shopping mall between the floors. At the delivery window of a store, a clerk puts the meal in a paper bag, then folds the bag, and finally affixes a branded seal to the folded area before handing it over to the rider. The rider who gets the meal can't wait for the escalator's speed

In contrast, the large restaurant chains have a much better way of sealing their takeaways. McDonald's stores across the country have been using specialized stickers to seal the mouth of the takeaway paper bag since 2018; Quanjude is about to go online with a new batch of takeaway sealing stickers to seal the mouth of the takeaway bag; Starbucks' takeaway bag mouth inside the side of the sticker with double-sided adhesive, will be loaded with drinks into the paper bag and then tear the sticker on the adhesive to close the two sides of the paper bag. (Zhang Nan, Sun Yi, Yang Tianyue, Huang Pinchao)

(ThousandDragon.com)