Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision released information on the 27th that the nation’s first food delivery box group standard was officially released. After the implementation of the group standards, the take-out industry will adopt plastic film boxes with more mature production techniques to replace the plastic food delivery boxes. On the basis of the quality and safety of the lunch box, about 75% of plastic waste can be reduced.
With the rapid development of China’s Internet economy, emerging industries such as “Internet + catering services” have grown rapidly. Online catering services have promoted the development of the catering industry and facilitated people’s livelihood. At the same time, the quality of take-out dishes has been uneven, resulting in food safety risks and environment. The risk of pollution is also rising.
According to incomplete statistics, Shanghai's average daily meal ordering is up to 1.65 million. It is estimated that one year's worth of discarded plastic food delivery boxes will exceed 1.2 billion, or about 45,000 tons, which will put pressure on Shanghai's environmental and waste reductions. Urban environmental pressure, promote green environmental protection, Shanghai Bureau of Quality Supervision organize relevant departments to guide industry associations to get hungry, Baidu, the US group take-out meal delivery platform jointly developed the group standard for take-away meal boxes.
According to Chen Xiaojun, deputy director of the Shanghai Bureau of Quality Supervision, the city has not yet fully promoted the use of paper cutlery or biodegradable tableware in place of take-out plastic food delivery boxes. The group standard released this time was version 1.0, requiring the use of a laminated paper bowl instead. Plastic delivery boxes are the first in the country.
In the group standard setting process, the Shanghai Bureau of Quality Supervision formed a standards drafting group composed of 15 professors, enterprise managers, platform supervisors, institutional experts, and association personnel. It organized 43 collections of relevant standards and organized multi-sectoral meetings. And drafting expert meeting, based on the principle of 'everything starts from reality', 'adopts mature technologies', and 'adhere to continuous improvement', the three major drafting principles, based on a large number of experiments, it is determined that paper tableware replacement will be the main attack direction.
According to Chen Xiaojun, the Quality Supervision Department has organized Shanghai Quality Inspection Institute to conduct more than 50 simulated use environmental tests on 65 indicators of more than 2,000 samples; it organized a food delivery platform to carry out more than 180 simulations on 59 dishes using meal boxes. They held a total of 17 meetings, solicited more than 200 comments, made drafts of the standard five, and finally formulated a group standard for take-out food delivery boxes, including take-away paper bowls, two bags for meal delivery, and the management specifications that they support. 3 group standards.
The group standards have detailed provisions on the scope of standard use, performance requirements, inspection rules and signs, transportation, storage, etc.. Zhang Ruohong, executive vice president of the Shanghai Food Contact Materials Association, said that in the paper bowl standard, Two indicators related to health and safety such as potassium manganate consumption ',' mold', and 'compressive strength', 'leakage performance' and other two indicators related to physical performance were improved, and the least improved. In addition, the strictest 80% increase is strictly adhered to the bottom line of food safety and hygiene to ensure food safety. At the same time, according to environmental conditions such as stacking, jolting, temperature and humidity in the Chinese food delivery and distribution process, targeted creation was made in the standard. The four indicators of 'combination', 'tiltness', 'tolerance' and 'overall compressibility' ensure the comfortable use of lunch boxes, enhance consumer experience, and highlight highlights.
In the delivery bag standard, three options are provided for paper bags, biodegradable bags, and textile bags to replace traditional plastic bags. In the management specification, a list of qualified suppliers is designed, periodical verification, point management, complaint feedback, and commitment implementation. 5 mechanisms, including points management rules, for food and beverage service providers who do not use standard paper bowls, delivery bags, with a deduction of 15 points at a time. Some unused, one deducted of 10 points. Deduction points added to different points, The tripartite platform will adopt different measures such as 'reduction of ranking', 'abolition of platform subsidy activities', 'relief and rectification', 'offline correction', etc.
It is reported that the group standard is a standard that social organizations coordinate market entities to jointly formulate and promise to implement. Hungry, Baidu, the US group food delivery platform in June began in Shanghai Changning, Pudong, Putuo three pilot areas, and gradually Promotion to the whole city.
The Shanghai Bureau of Quality Supervision will follow the implementation of the group standards after release, keep an eye on the development of new technologies and new products, start the drafting of the group standard version 2.0 in a timely manner, and incorporate mature and environmentally-friendly products into the scope of standard substitution, continuously improve and optimize products. Indicator system.
Zhang Huaimin, deputy director of the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration, stated that it will formulate relevant regulatory guidance and urge network delivery companies to actively use take-out food delivery boxes that are produced according to group standards, and will continue to expand the scope of use. The relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Greening and Urban Affairs Bureau will Track and do a good job of all kinds of work on the disposal and disposal of Shanghai garbage sources.
On the same day, some famous catering enterprises such as Jiancheon, Yunhai, and Hutchison-style dishes promised to strictly enforce the standards of the take-away meal delivery box. A representative of the delivery delivery platform said that after implementing the group standards, the cost will increase, but the total price It will be controlled within RMB 1, and this part of the cost will not be passed on to consumers. It is believed that as the entire demand increases, the cost will decline.