CCTV exposed the problem of takeaway restaurants in Lijiang, and the local government launched a centralized food safety rectification operation

China News Service, Kunming, October 5 (Wang Linzi) CCTV's "Weekly Quality Report" exposed on the 4th that some takeout restaurants in Lijiang, Yunnan Province have problems such as "bright kitchens and bright stoves" that are not worthy of the name and unqualified back kitchen hygiene. After the program was broadcast, the Lijiang City Market Supervision Department suspended operations for rectification of the four business entities involved, launched an investigation in accordance with the law, and conducted special interviews with the online catering operating platform involved. At the same time, it was decided to launch a "centralized rectification of takeaway food safety" across the city from now on.

The program showed that on October 1, when reporters were investigating takeout catering merchants in Lijiang Old Town, they found that some merchants were marked as "dine-in restaurants" and "Mingchu Liangzao" on the takeout platform, but the clerk said that the store did not offer dine-in food, and its monitoring screen did not show the core operations of the kitchen. The investigation also found that some merchants placed food ingredients randomly, accumulated dirt on food containers, and placed open trash cans in the kitchen.

On the 4th, Lijiang City held a city-wide special meeting on food and catering safety to convey the instructions and requirements of Pu Hong, Secretary of the Lijiang Municipal Party Committee. They watched CCTV's "Weekly Quality Report" special program on food safety investigation in takeaway restaurants, reported exposed problems and listened to reports on their handling. Nie Jinhui, deputy secretary of the Lijiang Municipal Party Committee and mayor, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

The meeting called for rapid investigation and handling of exposed issues, strict investigation and punishment of illegal activities, consolidation of platform main responsibilities and local supervision responsibilities, promotion of "Internet + Bright Kitchen, Bright Kitchen", full coverage of "food safety seals", organizing food and catering safety inspections and rectifications, and strengthening law enforcement linkage and smart supervision.

This "Concentrated Rectification of Takeaway Food Safety" campaign focuses on takeout shops without dine-in, urban villages and backstreet alley catering merchants, focusing on rectifying problems such as "bright kitchens and bright stoves" that are not worthy of the name, and the kitchen environment is dirty and messy. For various problems discovered during the investigation, we will implement "account-based management, list-based rectification, and cancellation-based implementation" to strictly investigate and punish all types of food safety violations. (over)