Our province will urge online catering platforms to optimize marketing rules and agreement rules, publish appropriate order consumption reminders in prominent positions on the relevant APP and Mini Program’s meal display, order submission, order completion pages, etc., reasonably determine the minimum price of meals, and optimize the price-break discounts collection mechanism; guide online catering platforms to embed standards related to the prevention of catering waste into all aspects of platform operation, establish and improve the catering waste self-inspection system and consumer information feedback mechanism, and promptly correct non-standard marketing behaviors; urge catering takeaway merchants to formulate and improve marketing norms, strengthen dynamic management of food procurement, storage, processing, and meal supply, and supervise their standardized marketing behaviors. Consumers must not be induced or misled to order too much; actively promote food safety sealing and reduce distribution Catering waste caused by pollution, damage, etc. during the process.
Our province will also increase the supervision of anti-food waste, combine daily supervision and inspection of food safety with the prevention of food waste, and carry out it simultaneously. Adhere to the combination of online and offline, and focus on checking whether platforms and merchants have prompts to remind them that their responsibilities are not implemented, induce consumers to order too much, and whether there is serious food waste in offline business places. Strengthen administrative guidance for illegal platforms and merchants. Continue to carry out "random restaurant inspection" activities, conduct random inspections on merchants’ implementation of the food waste prevention system, and check the implementation of "small dishes", "half dishes" and meal portions.
"We will also urge catering companies to incorporate the prevention of food waste into the food safety’daily control, weekly investigation and monthly dispatch ‘system, and strengthen self-inspection and self-correction. At the same time, in accordance with the principle of both corrections and equal penalties, we will correct violations of laws and regulations such as inducing excessive orders in accordance with laws and regulations," said She Dayong, director of the food business safety supervision and management department of the provincial market supervision bureau.(Reporter: Xu Ying)