China's first "food and beverage takeaway sealing norms" group standards issued

Recently, the Food and Beverage Takeaway Sealing Code (T/CCA 016-2020) (hereinafter referred to as the Code) was officially released and implemented. It is reported that the standard is China's first food sealing guidelines specifically for the food takeaway scene, by the United States group takeaway jointly with the Chinese Culinary Association, Xibei Catering Group, Beijing Yoshino fast food and other units jointly drafted.
"Code" in full consideration of China's food and beverage categories, sealing demand differences and so on, on the basis of providing merchants with a variety of takeaway food packaging and sealing methods, help to improve the standardized level of food and beverage takeaway distribution.
Strive for effectiveness and encourage the implementation of sealing methods in line with the characteristics of meals
It is understood that the drafting of the Code lasted more than half a year, after the early stage of food and beverage merchant research, existing food sealing methods research, standard development, expert review and other links.In the drafting process of
standards, the drafting group fully considered the different characteristics of liquid catering food, solid-state catering food, solid-liquid mixed food and beverage food, put forward the sealing measures in a targeted way, and specified in detail the general requirements of sealing measures, sealing materials procurement, storage, personnel management and packaging, distribution process and other content.
, in view of the sealing requirements, the Code focuses on the rationality of sealing measures, according to the characteristics of different properties of meals to choose appropriate sealing measures, and to meet the requirements of open or destroyed easily identified by consumers. At the same time, the Code innovatively introduces various forms of sealing measures to encourage merchants to adopt reusable electronic snaps.
Wang Jing, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Quality Standards and Testing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that the standards are operability and its release and implementation will help promote the improvement of the quality of food and beverage takeaway services and promote the healthy and sustainable development of the catering takeaway industry.
social governance, innovative food and beverage takeaway food security solutions
in recent years, China's food and beverage takeaway industry high-speed development. At the same time, how to improve the level of takeaway food safety management, promote the high-quality development of the food industry, but also for the regulatory authorities and the community concerned.
not contaminated in the distribution process, is an important guarantee for food safety in food and beverage takeaways. In May 2019, the Opinions of the State Council of the CPC Central Committee on Deepening Reform and Strengthening Food Safety clearly stated that food and beverage quality and safety improvement actions should be implemented to encourage food takeaways to seal food distribution. In September this year, the General Office of the State Administration of Market Supervision issued the "Food and Beverage Quality and Safety Improvement Action Plan" also proposed to speed up the implementation of takeaway food seals to ensure that the food distribution process is not contaminated.
this time, the United States group takeaway in collaboration with industry associations and catering industry partners to develop the Code, is in collaboration with industry and community forces, innovative food takeaway food safety solutions typical embodiment. Sibei and Yoshino family in the catering takeaway seal to explore the formation of good practice, for the drafting of standards provides a good reference model.
Standard review expert members, Science and Nutrition Information Exchange Center Dr. Zhong Kai said that before, the market regulatory authorities, catering merchants, third-party platform and other stakeholders, has explored a one-time food seal, one-time buckle, cling film, waist seal and other specific ways to seal meals. The drafting and release of the Code is another useful attempt to control food safety in food and beverage takeaways.
Beijing Yoshino home fast food Co. , Ltd. , the main person in charge said that the standard takeaway seal as the industry's normative implementation, to ensure the safety of consumer dining, so that consumers eat at ease, for the food safety of the "last kilometer" escort.
to strengthen the mission, work together with catering merchants to help peace of mind consumption
food safety has been the focus of the United States mission areas. From all over the country to put food security seal, to the outbreak in the industry-first launch of the "contactless distribution" "electronic peace of mind card" ... The U.S. Mission continues to promote innovative initiatives to ensure food safety.
December 2017, U.S. takeaways took the lead in promoting takeaway seals nationwide and actively strengthened the educational promotion of merchants' use of seals. By the first half of 2020, more than 200 million seals had been placed in more than 1500 regions of the country, and merchants had opened their own procurement channels and customized procurement channels in the back office to meet the diverse needs of merchants.
the formulation and release of the Code, but also the United States group actively participate in food safety social governance, promote industry coordination and governance of the re-embodiment. "As a standard sponsor, the U.S. Mission will be the first to promote the application of the standard by platform merchants." In the future, the platform will continue to verify and evaluate the food safety risk points of online catering services, and actively take effective measures to explore the intelligent management system of food safety, said the person in charge of food safety. Hope that through the promotion of the benign development of the offline catering industry, to achieve "help everyone eat better, better life" mission.
Standard review expert member, Chinese Min University food safety governance collaborative innovation center Dr. Sun Wei pointed out that the standard in promoting food and beverage takeaway related parties to implement the main responsibility at the same time, can widely mobilize the strength of all sectors of society, in line with the new era of social governance concept.