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　　In late July, the reporter learned from the Hefei market supervision department that many restaurants in Hefei were fined for selling cold dishes without obtaining cold food business qualifications.

Why was "shooting cucumbers" fined 5,000 yuan?

What documents do restaurants need to apply to make cold dishes for sale?

What procedures are required?

On July 27, the reporter investigated the matter.

(Guilin Evening News on August 1)

　　The restaurant sold a piece of cucumber, and was fined 5,000 yuan by the local market supervision department. This is a heavy penalty for many small restaurants and small restaurants with small profits. Therefore, it has also caused local catering enterprises. High attention, and heated discussions among netizens.

Strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with the punishment of the market supervision department, they are just acting according to the law.

　　According to the relevant national regulations, operating a catering enterprise requires a "Business License" and a "Food Operation Permit", and must strictly follow the permitted items on the "Food Operation Permit" to conduct production and operation.

If a catering company operates a takeaway business, it also needs to abide by the relevant provisions of the "Measures for the Investigation and Punishment of Online Food Safety Illegal Acts".

In the news, many catering companies were investigated for the production and sale of cucumbers, because the licensed items on the "Food Business License" did not produce and sell cold food, or they did not have the corresponding qualifications, but sold cold food on the takeaway platform. .

　　From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with the punishment of several restaurants by the local market supervision department.

But this is obviously not the end of the whole thing. Except for a few catering companies who were fined for selling cucumbers, they were a little unconvinced.

In fact, when catering enterprises apply for the "Food Business License", they only need to add cold food production and sales to the licensed items.

　　But the problem is that many operators of catering companies do not know this, so why don't they apply for a license?

Because after the catering enterprise submits the application, it must be checked and accepted by the market supervision department of the jurisdiction.

Many small restaurants do not have cold food business items in the business license scope, most likely because the business conditions do not meet the acceptance standards.

For example, the production and sale of cold food generally requires a “special room” of no less than 5 square meters for cold dishes production, as well as facilities for secondary dressing, hand washing and disinfection, independent air conditioning in the special room, and air disinfection. equipment, etc.

　　Such acceptance criteria are not a big problem for large catering enterprises, but for many small catering enterprises, they have become a threshold that is difficult to cross.

So now there are only two choices left for catering businesses: one is to no longer sell cold food such as cucumbers, boiled edamame, and cold tomatoes; the other is to renovate the business premises to meet the relevant requirements for cold food production.

However, the cost of building construction for a few cold dishes is undoubtedly too high; if the production and sale of cold food is abandoned, it may affect the business, which puts some small catering businesses in a dilemma.

　　The reason why the market supervision department makes such a request is to avoid food safety accidents in the final analysis, and for the health and life safety of consumers, so is there any other way to solve the problem?

One option is to lower the threshold for applying for the production and sale of cold food, and to ensure food safety by strengthening random inspections and supervision; meet the relevant requirements.

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