Consumers can better protect their own rights and interests by identifying various food quality and safety signs, and merchants need to fulfill their obligations with food quality and safety signs. Below are the eight major domestic food quality and safety signs. Let’s get to know these signs together.

1. Quality and safety signs

Food safety is a topic that everyone is concerned about. While paying attention to the food itself, everyone should also pay attention to some safety indicators.

QS is the abbreviation of Quality Safety in English. For enterprises that have obtained food quality and safety production licenses, the food they produce and process must pass the factory inspection before being sold out of the factory. The food packaging shall be marked with the food quality and safety production license number uniformly formulated by the state and shall be printed or affixed with the food quality and safety market access mark "QS".

The style and usage of the food quality and safety market access mark are formulated by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China. The mark consists of the Chinese characters "QS" and "Quality and Safety". The main color of the logo is blue, the letters "Q" and "Quality and Safety" in Chinese are blue, and the letter "S" is white. It can be enlarged or reduced in proportion as needed during use, but it must not be deformed or discolored. Adding (printing) the "QS" mark to food means that the food meets the basic requirements for quality and safety.

Since January 1, 2004, my country has first implemented a food quality and safety market access system in the five food industries of rice, edible vegetable oil, wheat flour, soy sauce and vinegar. Meat products, dairy products, convenience foods, quick-frozen foods, puffed foods, condiments, beverages, biscuits, and cans are subject to a market access system. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine will take 3 to 5 years to implement a market access system for all 28 categories of food.

2. National inspection-free product mark

The inspection-free mark uniformly stipulated by the State Administration of Quality and Technical Supervision is circular, with the positive and the initial consonant "M" of the Chinese pinyin of the word "free" in the center. The inverted connection graphic, with solid top and virtual bottom, means that the external and internal quality of inspection-free products meet the requirements of relevant quality laws and regulations. Above this central pattern, there are the words "National Inspection-Exemption Products", which shows the authority of the national inspection exemption; to the left and right of the pattern, the starting and ending years and months of the exemption period are marked; below the pattern, "National Quality Technology" is arranged in an arc. Supervision Bureau" and its English abbreviation "CSBTS".

The tone of the inspection-free sign is white, the outer circle and central graphics are blue, and the words and letters are black. The size of the inspection-free mark is based on the outer radius R of the mark, and the size of other parts of the mark is determined based on the corresponding proportion of R. Enterprises that have obtained inspection exemption certificates may voluntarily display the inspection exemption mark on the products that have been exempted from inspection or on their nameplates, packaging, instructions for use, and quality certificates during the validity period of the inspection exemption.

The exemption is valid for three years. If the product needs to continue to be exempted from inspection after the inspection exemption expires, the enterprise should re-apply.

3. Green Food Mark

The Green Food Mark is a quality certification mark officially registered by the Green Food Development Center in the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. It consists of three parts, namely the sun above and the leaves below