Application process

All units and individuals with green food production conditions can be applicants for the right to use the green food mark. Any unit or individual who wants to engage in green food production and obtain a green food label should follow the following procedures:

1. Applicants should fill in the "Application Form for the Use of Green Food Label" in duplicate (including attached materials) and submit it to the green food management department of the province (autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government, city under separate state planning).

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

3. 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.

4． The China Green Food Development Center will work with authoritative environmental protection agencies to review the above materials. If the products are qualified, the food monitoring agency designated by the China Green Food Development Center will sample the declared products and test them according to green food quality and hygiene standards; if they are unqualified, their applications will no longer be accepted that year.

5. The China Green Food Development Center conducts a comprehensive review (including on-site inspection) of products that pass the quality and hygiene tests, and signs a "Green Food Mark Use Agreement" with qualified applicants: the Ministry of Agriculture issues a Green Food Mark use certificate and number; Report to the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce for filing, and announce it to the public at the same time.

The flow chart is as follows: