Recently, more than a dozen Henan workers reported that they went to Nanjing to prepare projects, rent houses and cook, but they were fined 6.5438+0.5 million yuan by jianye district Municipal Market Supervision Administration. How did it become illegal to cook together and open a canteen? Is the enforcement of food safety law going wrong? The jianye district Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision responded that the Notice of Administrative Punishment Hearing was addressed to the workers' unit, China Construction No.7 Engineering Installation Co., Ltd., which has issued a description of the situation and admitted that it is an "employee canteen". However, previous reports showed that although the notice was sent to the company, the company said that this was an employee's personal behavior and the fine should be paid by the employee himself. The truth of the matter needs to be further restored, but the contrast between the lightness of the matter itself and the huge fine is still confusing.

This punishment is based on Article 35 of the Food Safety Law, but it only stipulates that "food production, food sales and catering services should be licensed according to law", and it does not distinguish between individual behavior and company behavior, nor does it clearly stipulate the specific situation of cooking in private houses. Although the "partnership cooking" between a few people meets the "formal requirements" for opening a canteen without permission, does the heavy punishment meet the legislative intention of the Food Safety Law to crack down on unlicensed dining halls and threaten the health and safety of unspecified public?

The construction industry that the company involved is engaged in is an industry that requires high physical strength and low income. Cooking together is the most economical and easy choice to fill your stomach. For this kind of thing that conforms to human common sense, the municipal supervision department identified it as "opening a canteen without permission", confiscated all the "illegal income" and imposed a fine of 10 times. Is it "crime and punishment are equal"? The daily meal fee of this "canteen" is only 120 yuan. No matter who the business subject is, there is really no "profit space" and no foreign business, and the food safety risks are basically controllable. Should heavy penalties be used?

The law enforcement scale of food safety should match the socio-economic level, and too mechanical standards will inevitably lead to widespread illegal and selective law enforcement. Private partnership is punished as "running a canteen without a license". Although it is accurate to grasp one thing at a time, it obviously does not help to improve food safety and people's sense of gain, and should not be the focus of food and drug supervision and law enforcement. The efforts of law enforcement departments are obvious to all; However, for this kind of public opinion, law enforcement departments also need to read out the expectations behind it.