The business scope of the food business license includes:

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

2. Bulk food sales (including refrigerated frozen food, excluding refrigerated frozen food, including bulk cooked food sales, excluding bulk cooked food sales);

3. Sales of special foods (health foods, formula foods for special medical purposes, infant formula milk powder and other infant formula foods);

4. sales of other foods;

5. selling and selling hot food;

6. Manufacturing and selling cold food;

7. Manufacture and sale of raw food;

8. Manufacture and sale of pastry food (including cake with flowers, excluding cake with flowers);

9. Self-made drinks (including self-made drinks, excluding self-made drinks, including fresh milk drinks and excluding fresh milk drinks);

11. Manufacture and sale of other foods.

a food business license refers to a food business license certificate issued by a legal entity engaged in food sales and catering services within the territory of the People's Republic of China after examination and approval by the food and drug supervision and administration department. The food business license is based on the principle of one place and one license, that is, a food business operator should obtain a food business license when engaging in food business activities in a business place. The date of issuing the food business license is the date when the licensing decision is made, and the validity period is 5 years.

Legal basis

Measures for the Administration of Food Business License

Article 52 The meanings of the following terms in these Measures:

(1) Unit canteens refer to catering service providers located in government organs, institutions, social organizations, private non-enterprise units and enterprises, etc., which provide centralized meals for internal employees, students and so on;

(2) prepackaged foods refers to the food prepackaged or made in packaging materials and containers, including prepackaged and prepackaged food prepackaged in packaging materials and containers with uniform quality or volume labels within certain limits;

(3) Bulk food refers to food that needs to be weighed and sold without pre-quantitative packaging, including food without packaging and food with non-quantitative packaging;

(4) Hot food refers to the ready-to-eat food, which is made of raw materials after rough processing, cutting, steaming, boiling, frying, frying, roasting and frying, and eaten at a certain heat state, including foods processed by cooking methods such as hot pot and barbecue;

(5) Cold food refers to food that can be eaten at normal temperature or low temperature without reheating, including cooked food, raw fruits and vegetables, pickles, etc.

(6) raw food, generally referring to raw aquatic products;

(7) Pastry food refers to the food made of grain, sugar, oil, eggs, milk, etc. as the main raw materials through baking and other processes, including decorated cakes, etc.

(8) Self-made drinks refer to all kinds of drinks made by operators on the spot, including ice cream;

(9) The central kitchen refers to a food business operator established by a catering unit, with independent places and facilities, who centrally completes the processing, production and distribution of finished or semi-finished food;

(11) The collective dining distribution unit refers to a food operator who processes and distributes food in a centralized way according to the ordering requirements of the clients, but does not provide dining places;

(11) Other foods refer to foods sold in regions, foods with ethnic characteristics and foods with local characteristics.

the formula food for special medical use mentioned in these measures refers to the formula food for special medical use that can be sold in food sales places such as shopping malls and supermarkets as determined by china food and drug administration according to the principle of classified management.