Fengjie County carried out a special inspection of the moon cake market and advocated healthy green consumption

The Mid -Autumn Festival is approaching, and moon cakes enter the peak of sales foods. In order to curb the "sky -high" moon cakes, prevent over packaging, and promote healthy green consumption, Chongqing Fengjie County Market Supervision Bureau has penetrated the moon cake production enterprise and the moon cake sales market for special inspections.

During the inspection, law enforcement officers increased national standards for "restricted goods and cosmetics" (GB 23350-2021), requiring moon cake manufacturers and sellers to implement the main responsibility, rationally priced, consciously maintain market order, and let moon cakes make moon cakes Packaging "slimming" and "lightly put on the shelves". The problems found during the inspection were promoted and corrected in a timely manner, and key supervision was implemented on boxes with a unit price of more than 500 yuan.

Through a special inspection of the moon cake market, guide the general public to consume rational consumption and strive to create a new fashion of "healthy consumption and green consumption" in the whole society.

What is excessive packaging? The National Standard No. 1 Modification Form No. 1 of "Restricting Commodity Packaging Requirements for Food and Cosmetics" stipulates that the number of grain and processing products, moon cakes and rice dumplings should not exceed three layers, and other products should not exceed four layers. Production organizations should take measures to control the cost of all packaging except for the packaging of direct contact with the interior, not exceeding 20%of the product sales price; moon cakes and rice dumplings with a sales price of more than 100 yuan. The cost of all packaging outside the packaging of the interior does not exceed 15%of the product sales price; the packaging of moon cakes and rice dumplings should not be used as precious metals and mahogany materials. Moon cakes should not be mixed with other products, and dumplings should not be mixed with products exceeding their prices.

(This manuscript is provided by Zhang Longping, Fengjie County Market Supervision Bureau)

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