What is the punishment standard for selling expired food?
1. For the food sold beyond the shelf life, the relevant competent departments shall, according to their respective responsibilities, confiscate the illegal income, the food illegally produced and sold, and the tools, equipment, raw materials and other items used for illegal production and sales;
2, the illegal production and operation of food value is less than ten thousand yuan, and impose a fine of two thousand yuan and fifty thousand yuan;
3, the value of more than ten thousand yuan, and impose a fine of more than five times the value of ten times;
4. If the circumstances are serious, the license shall be revoked;
5. If a consumer produces food that does not meet the food safety standards or sells food that he knows does not meet the food safety standards, he may ask the producer or seller to compensate for the losses and may ask him to pay ten times the price.
Legal basis: Article 27 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Food Safety Law.
The national standards for food safety shall be formulated and promulgated by the health administrative department of the State Council in conjunction with the food safety supervision and administration department of the State Council, and the national standard number shall be provided by the standardization administrative department of the State Council. The limits of pesticide residues and veterinary drug residues in food, as well as the inspection methods and procedures, shall be formulated by the health administrative department of the State Council and the agricultural administrative department of the State Council jointly with the food safety supervision and administration department of the State Council. Rules for inspection of livestock and poultry slaughter shall be formulated by the administrative department of agriculture of the State Council in conjunction with the administrative department of health of the State Council.
Article 28
The formulation of national food safety standards should be based on the results of food safety risk assessment, fully consider the results of edible agricultural products safety risk assessment, refer to relevant international standards and international food safety risk assessment results, and publish the draft national food safety standards to the society, and listen to the opinions of food producers, operators, consumers and relevant departments. The national food safety standards shall be examined and approved by the National Food Safety Standards Review Committee organized by the health administrative department of the State Council. The National Standards Review Committee for Food Safety is composed of experts in medicine, agriculture, food, nutrition, biology and environment, and representatives from relevant departments, food industry associations and consumers' associations in the State Council to review the scientific and practical nature of the draft national standards for food safety.