China News Service, October 26. According to the website of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce recently issued a notice on the promotion and application of the Beijing cold chain food traceability platform.

The announcement made it clear that in order to implement the new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control requirements and further strengthen the supervision of imported cold chain foods, Beijing has established a unified "Beijing Cold Chain Food Traceability Platform" (hereinafter referred to as "Beijing Cold Chain") to realize import refrigeration Traceability management of frozen meat and aquatic products.

  The notice requires that the production and operation units of imported cold chain food in Beijing shall strictly implement the main responsibility of food traceability in accordance with the relevant requirements of the Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China and the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases to ensure that all imported cold chain foods they operate Realize traceability.

Imported cold chain food production and business units mainly include related units or individuals engaged in import trade, production and processing, circulation and sales, logistics and warehousing, and catering services for imported cold chain food.

  According to the announcement, "Beijing Cold Chain" is currently online and provides multiple login methods. You can directly use your computer to access the web page address ("Beijing Cold Chain" website is https://sp.scjgj.beijing.gov.cn/cctp/ login), you can also search for the "Beijing Cold Chain" applet in WeChat and Alipay for mobile terminal operations.

Imported cold chain food production and business units can download user operation manuals, use instructional videos and other materials when registering users.

"Beijing Cold Chain" provides 24-hour technical support services for the city's imported cold chain food production and operation units. If necessary, you can call 4000993556 for consultation.

  The notice requires that Beijing’s imported cold chain food production and operation entities shall complete the main user registration in the "Beijing Cold Chain", and use the "Beijing Cold Chain" to truthfully upload imported frozen meat and water from November 1, 2020. Traceability data such as product source and flow direction.

Imported cold chain food production and operation units that have established their own traceability system can upload data by means of batch import or system interface.

  The notice pointed out that the "Beijing Cold Chain" implements the "first stop code" management, that is, the city's imported cold chain food production and operation units that purchase imported refrigerated and frozen meat and aquatic products from outside Beijing and transport them into Beijing are the first stop. "Beijing Cold Chain" uploads relevant product varieties, specifications, batches, origins, inspection and quarantine and other traceability data, and uses "Beijing Cold Chain" to assign electronic traceability codes to related products by batch.

If there is a traceability code that complies with GS1 coding and traceability standards on the product packaging, no additional code is required.

In all aspects of the sales and circulation of imported refrigerated and frozen meat and aquatic products in Beijing, the production and operation units of imported cold chain food in Beijing can easily upload product receipt and delivery data by scanning the code.

  The notice clearly stated that the production and operation units of imported cold chain food in Beijing shall comply with the management requirements of "Beijing Cold Chain" to ensure that the uploaded data is true, valid, complete and accurate.

For imported refrigerated and frozen meat and aquatic products that have not uploaded product traceability data in accordance with the management requirements of "Beijing Cold Chain", the production and operation unit of imported cold chain food in Beijing shall not purchase, sell or use.

When selling to consumers, Beijing imported cold chain food production and operation entities shall affix the "Beijing Cold Chain" electronic traceability code on the packaging or container of imported refrigerated frozen meat and aquatic products.

Consumers can inquire product traceability information through WeChat and Alipay scan codes.

  The relevant government departments of Beijing Municipality will supervise and guide the city's imported cold chain food production and operation units to use the "Beijing Cold Chain" in accordance with their respective responsibilities to ensure the effective operation of the "Beijing Cold Chain".