People's Court of Haidian District, Beijing, summarized common food safety issues to help us deal with those "legal issues on the tip of the tongue" Food Safety Law stipulates that food production and operation should comply with food safety standards. Consumers often only know which platform and merchant they bought it from, but they do not know which entity they should claim their rights to.

If consumers cannot inquire about the information, licenses and other information of food producers and operators through the e-commerce platform operator, they can claim that the seller and the platform bear joint and several liability.