Excessive packaging of moon cakes?China Consumers Association: Report "Shooting with it"

The reporter learned from the China Consumer Association that in order to further curb the excessive packaging phenomenon of moon cakes, the Chinese Consumers Association and the China Bakery Foods and Sugar Industry Association will jointly supervise the situation of the moon cake overpasuring the moon cake before the Mid -Autumn Festival, advocate the return of moon cake products to food. The concept of the attributes and simple packaging.

According to reports, this consumer supervision work will be in accordance with the requirements of the mandatory national standards (GB23350-2021) "Restricted Commodity Excessive Packaging Requirements" and the requirements of the No. 1 modification form, taking into account the transition period "dual-standard parallel" pair Supervise the over packaging of the moon cake, including the supervision of the mixed suit gift box.

In order to expand the scope of the consumer supervision work, the China Consumers Association will launch a team of consumer rights protection volunteers distributed across the country. According to relevant national standards, it will be supervised in accordance with its daily life during the festival. Volunteers adopt a targeted browsing comparison and casual shooting method to the moon cakes sold on the Internet and physical stores before the Mid -Autumn Festival, and discovered and summarized the possible excessive packaging moon cakes and combined products. At the same time, the China Consumers Association also commissioned professional institutions to carry out the "sweeping net" operation, conduct coverage investigation, timely collect clues, discover cases, and announce the results of the investigation to the society after the investigation.

It is reported that in May this year, the China Consumer Association has jointly jointly issued an initiative to the majority of the operators and consumers to "oppose the excessive packaging of goods to practice simple and moderate concepts" to the majority of operators and consumers. The work is also the specific implementation and continuation of the aforementioned work.

The person in charge of the China Consumers Association said that the mooncake consumers are many and seasonal. Consumers' consumption of moon cakes is not only the need for traditional cultural heritage, but also a reflection of a happy life. Food is used for eating. Over -packaging deviates from the origin of food, and increases the burden of ordinary people, and does not meet the social style of "saving and opposing waste". The investigation and supervision work aims to advocate a simple and moderate, green and low -carbon lifestyle, and guide enterprises to not spend time and effort to spend their minds on carefully packaged "face". "Lizi" thought, worked hard, and asked for breakthroughs. At the same time, when you guide consumers to visit relatives and friends, they consciously choose simple and moderate packaging products and refuse to pay for excessive packaging.

The China Consumers Association also called on all sectors of the society to compare three contents such as the number of packaging layers, packaging costs, and mixed requirements in the following sectors to supervise the moon cake products sold in the market. At the same time, supervision must be objective and fair in accordance with the law, and cannot harm the legal rights and interests of the business reputation of the operator. The clues of violating the mandatory national standards discovered can be sent to the mailbox [email protected].

Reporter: Xing Can

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