China News Service, August 5th (Xie Yiguan, a reporter from China News and Finance) According to the China Consumers Association's news on the 5th, in order to further curb the excessive packaging phenomenon of moon cakes, the China Consumers Association and the China Bakery and Confectionery Industry Association will meet before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Jointly conduct consumption supervision on the excessive packaging of moon cakes, and advocate the concept of moon cake products returning to the attributes of food itself and the concept of simple and moderate packaging.
The person in charge of the China Consumers Association said that there are many mooncake consumers and strong seasonality. Consumers' consumption of mooncakes is not only the need for the inheritance of traditional culture, but also the embodiment of a happy life.
Food is for eating. Excessive packaging deviates from the origin of food and increases the burden on the common people. It does not conform to the social trend of "practice thrift and oppose waste".
The person in charge of the China Consumers Association said that the purpose of this investigation and supervision work is to advocate a simple, moderate, green and low-carbon lifestyle, and guide companies to stop spending time and effort on the "face" of careful packaging, and should improve product quality. , patterns and tastes and other "linings" with thought, effort, and breakthroughs.
At the same time, consumers are guided to consciously choose simple and moderately packaged products when visiting relatives and friends, and refuse to pay for excessive packaging.
According to reports, the consumption supervision work jointly carried out by the China Consumers Association and the China Bakery Sugar Association will be carried out in accordance with the mandatory national standard (GB23350-2021) "Restriction of Excessive Packaging Requirements for Food and Cosmetics" and the requirements of the No. 1 Amendment Sheet. , and take into account the transitional period of "double-standard parallel" to supervise the excessive packaging of moon cakes, including the supervision of mixed-package gift boxes.
In order to expand the scope of this consumption supervision work, the China Consumers Association will mobilize a team of China Consumers Association's consumer rights protection volunteers distributed throughout the country to supervise in accordance with relevant national standards in combination with their daily life during the festival.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, volunteers browsed, compared, and photographed mooncakes sold online and in brick-and-mortar stores in a targeted manner, so as to promptly discover and summarize possible over-packaged mooncakes and bundling of combined products.
At the same time, the China Consumers Association also commissioned a professional organization to carry out a "sweeping network" operation, conduct coverage investigations, collect clues in a timely manner, discover cases, and announce the investigation results to the public after the investigation is over.
The China Consumers Association also called on all sectors of the society to supervise the mooncake products sold in the market by comparing the three contents in the table below, including the number of packaging layers, packaging costs, and mixed packaging requirements.
At the same time, supervision must be objective and fair in accordance with the law, and must not damage the business reputation and other legitimate rights and interests of operators.
In May of this year, the China Consumers Association has joined 14 major domestic industry associations to jointly issue an initiative to "oppose excessive packaging of commodities and practice the concept of simplicity and moderation" to the majority of operators and consumers. This time, the consumption supervision work on excessive packaging of moon cakes It is also the specific implementation and continuation of the aforementioned work.
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