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Conditions and procedures for applying for green food enterprises

According to the provisions of Article 5 of the "Green Food Label Management Measures": "Anyone with green food Units and individuals with production conditions can be applicants for the right to use the green food label." In order to further standardize management, the following specific provisions have been made on the conditions for applicants for the mark:

1. Applicants must be able to control the product production process, implement green food production operating procedures, and ensure that product quality meets the requirements of green food standards;

2. The applying enterprise must have a certain scale and be able to bear the green food label usage fees;

3. As applicants, enterprises engaged in production management and services below the township and town level must have a production base and directly organize production; business and service enterprises above the township and town level must have a stable production base affiliated with the enterprise;

4． The production and operation of enterprises applying for processing products must be more than one year.

"The state has clear regulations on the scope of applying for green food labels. Health foods registered with the word "food" or "health" can apply for green food labels. Food and beverages that have been announced by the state are both food and Types of medicines, such as perilla, chrysanthemum, ginkgo, tangerine peel, safflower, etc., can apply for green food labels. Medicines and cigarettes cannot apply for green food labels.

According to the green food standards, they are not accepted for the time being. In order to promote the development of green food industry, the China Green Food Development Center was established with the approval of the Ministry of Personnel in November 1992 as the specific management department of green food. Green food management agencies have been established in 29 provinces, cities and autonomous regions across the country to carry out quality inspection of green food and review of the use of green food labels. Among the thousands of product varieties accepted, in accordance with the provisions of the "Green Food Label Management Measures". Through strict review, by the end of 2000, more than 1,000 products in five major categories across the country had obtained the right to use the green food label, which led to a rapid increase in the number of green food developments that applied for use on products in accordance with the provisions of Article 6 of the "Green Food Label Management Measures". The procedure for using the green food label is:

First, the applicant fills out the "Application Form for the Use of Green Food Label" in duplicate (including attached materials) and reports it to the province (autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government, city under separate state planning) , the same below) green food management department;

Second, the provincial green food management department entrusts an environmental protection monitoring agency that has passed provincial metrological certification or above to conduct an environmental assessment of the product or the origin of the product's raw materials.

Third, the provincial green food management department will conduct a preliminary review of the application materials and submit the materials that pass the preliminary review to the China Green Food Development Center;

Fourth, the China Green Food Development Center will jointly Authoritative environmental protection agencies will review the above materials. Qualified products will be sampled by the food monitoring agency designated by the China Green Food Development Center and tested according to green food quality and hygiene standards. If they are unqualified, they will not be inspected that year. and then accept their applications;

Fifth, China Green Food Development Center will conduct a comprehensive review (including on-site inspection) of products that have passed the quality and hygiene tests, and sign a "Green Food Label Use" with qualified applicants. "Agreement", the Ministry of Agriculture will issue a certificate and number for the use of the Green Food Mark, report it to the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce for filing, and announce it to the public. Applications for products that fail the health test will no longer be accepted that year.

< p>The China Green Food Development Center will review the company's application materials. If the materials are qualified, it will notify the provincial green food management agency in writing and entrust the provincial green food management agency to sample the declared products. After receiving the commissioned sampling form from the center, the China Green Food Development Center will Two or more full-time green food label management salespersons will be assigned to the applying enterprise to conduct sampling, and the samples will be sent to the green food designated food monitoring center. After the final review results are obtained, China Green Food Development. The center will notify the applicant in writing to go to the China Green Food Development Center to go through the certification procedures and pay the marking service fee, which is in principle 10,000 yuan per product (discount for series products).

Green food label management personnel shall supervise and inspect green food production enterprises within their jurisdiction at least once a year, and report to the center the implementation of the enterprise's planting, breeding, processing and other regulations.

The China Green Food Development Center issues random inspection tasks at the beginning of each year, and designates fixed-point food monitoring agencies and environmental monitoring agencies to conduct random inspections on the ecological and environmental quality of the products and raw material origins of the companies using the logo. Those who fail the random inspections will have their products cancelled. The right to use the logo shall be announced to the public. All consumers have the right to supervise green foods. Consumers have the right to know the authenticity of green foods in the market, and they can directly report products with quality problems to the center.

Organic food must meet the following four conditions:

① Raw materials must come from established or under-established organic agricultural production systems, or wild natural products collected organically< /p>

② Products strictly follow the processing, packaging, storage and transportation standards of organic food during the entire production process;

③ Producers have complete rules and regulations in the production and smooth process of organic food. Quality control, and tracking and review systems, with complete production and sales standards.

④ Must be certified by an independent organic food certification agency.