The validity of food production licenses is generally not more than 5 years. The validity period of its production license for different food products is stipulated in the corresponding normative documents.

In the food production license expires within six months before the validity of the enterprise should be the original acceptance of food production license application for quality and technical supervision departments to apply for renewal. Quality and technical supervision departments should be in accordance with the provisions of the application procedures for review and renewal.

The food production license to implement the annual review system. Obtain a food production license shall be valid in the certificate, every full 1 year before the first month to the location of the city (prefecture) above the quality and technical supervision departments to submit an application for annual review.

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Food Production License (QS) conditions

Environmental food production and processing enterprises must have to ensure product quality of the environmental conditions, including food production enterprises shall not be surrounded by noxious gases, radioactive substances and diffuse sources of contamination, and there shall be no potential sites of massive breeding of insects;

Production workshops, warehouses and other facilities should be in accordance with the health requirements of the production process and storage of raw materials and other characteristics, set up appropriate anti-rodent, anti-mosquito and anti-fly, anti-mosquito and insect invasion, hiding and breeding effective measures to avoid endangering the quality and safety of food.

Production equipment Food production and processing enterprises must have to ensure product quality of the production equipment, process equipment and related auxiliary equipment, with the assurance of product quality appropriate raw material handling, processing, storage and other plants and premises.

Production of different products, the need for different production equipment, such as wheat flour production enterprises should have screening and cleaning equipment, specific gravity to remove the stone machine, magnetic separation equipment, milling machine, sieving equipment, powder machine, and other necessary auxiliary equipment, with raw materials and finished product storage.

The production and processing of rice must have screening and cleaning equipment, wind selection equipment, magnetic separation equipment, huller, rice milling machine, rice sieve and other equipment.

While different products require different production equipment, but the enterprise must have to ensure product quality production equipment, process equipment and other basic conditions.

Source:Baidu Encyclopedia-qs