According to Article one hundred and fifty of the Food Safety Law, prepackaged foods refers to food prepackaged or packaged with packaging materials or containers.
The National Food Safety Standard (GB7718-2011) of prepackaged foods General Rules on Labeling further explained prepackaged foods. Prepackaged foods is "food prepackaged or made of packaging materials and containers, including prepackaged and quantitative prepackaged food and food made of packaging materials and containers with uniform quality or volume labels within a certain limit".
According to the definition, prepackaged foods has two basic characteristics, the first is "pre-quantification" and the second is "packaging with packaging materials or making in containers". Meanwhile, the processed food with these two characteristics is prepackaged foods. Without any of the above characteristics, it is not prepackaged foods, that is to say, if it is only quantitative packaging or quantitative packaging, it is not prepackaged foods.
What does prepackaged foods include?
1, boxed milk
We can know the origin, production date, product content, raw materials and ingredients of boxed milk in detail, so milk also belongs to prepackaged foods.
Step 2: cookies
Biscuits are very common foods in our daily life. In the supermarket, you can see biscuits in scattered packages. Many people like breakfast biscuits that belong to prepackaged foods, but they don't need to be weighed.
3. Frozen food
If you don't know much about prepackaged foods, let's analyze it through frozen food. Meat is a common frozen food. In the supermarket, we can see that some packages are marked as produced by a certain manufacturer, while others are unpacked. The former belongs to prepackaged foods.
The difference between prepackaged foods and bulk food.
1. Bulk food refers to food whose quality or volume is not determined in advance, and it is a concept corresponding to predetermined food.
The biggest feature of bulk food is that it is not quantified in advance.
2. Bulk food can be packaged, such as candy sold by piece; It can also be opened, such as rice sold by the piece. Whether there is packaging or not is not a sign to distinguish a predetermined amount of food from bulk food.
3. prepackaged foods has a high degree of industrialization and standardization, and the food is packaged in the smallest unit, which is not suitable for split sales. It is already packaged and can be sold directly.