Wipe with alcohol, the production date of the package is gone.

Yangtze Evening News (reporter Ma Yan correspondent Wang Guofeng) Jiangsu Province Consumer protection committee yesterday released pre-packaged food production date "easy to erase, easy to fall off" problem experience survey report. According to the survey, grain and oil, beverages, snacks, sauce and other fields are found production date "easy to erase, easy to fall off" problems.

More than 80% of the sample production date "easy to erase"

Provincial Consumer protection Committee supervision Department Zhao Xin introduced, the selection of 21 supermarkets in 5 cities in the province and 4 e-commerce platforms for investigation experience, purchasing samples 110, of which 102 China's samples, 8 imported samples. The existence of production date "easy to erase" problem accounted for 83.6% of the total sample, mainly in plastic packaging food. The survey shows that the problem of "easy to erase and easy to fall off" exists in different degrees in the products sold in each supermarket. However, the proportion of such problems in small and medium-sized supermarkets and local supermarkets is higher than that in large chain supermarkets.

The same problem also exists in imported prepackaged food. Some supermarkets have their own brands, but they do not directly produce products themselves, but authorize and license third-party food processing enterprises. This kind of pre-packaged food in the production date "easy to erase, easy to fall off" problem is more serious.

There are three ways to mark the production date on the food packaging bag: 1, laser printing; 2, inkjet printing; 3, steel printing. The basic problem of "easy to erase" is the use of inkjet printing, and the production date of laser printing and steel printing technology is relatively firm.

In addition, the production date on the plastic or plastic film carrier is easy to be erased, and the production date on the paper and metal carrier is relatively firm. Yangzi Evening News reporter saw: for the inkjet printing of the production date, the experience staff with alcohol cotton sheet gently wipe, wipe clean; On the other hand, the simple inkjet printer sold on the Internet can be bought as long as dozens of yuan. The experience personnel also found that some production dates are marked on the bottle cap or on the plastic film outside, and after a gentle twist or hand tear, it is easy to replace -- the plastic bottle cap and plastic sealing film sold by an e-commerce platform are less than 0.1 yuan each.

Suggested that the new regulations supplement "not easy to be erased" provisions

Zhao Xin introduced that on November 26, the Food safety national Standard Review Committee issued a letter on soliciting comments on the revised draft of the "Food safety National Standard pre-packaged food Labeling General Rules" (soliciting comments draft). Jiangsu Provincial Consumer Protection Committee has combined the experience of the survey results, to the food safety of the national standard review committee issued a letter of recommendation, suggesting that the revised draft "3.2 should be clear, eye-catching, lasting... Shall not be separated from food or its packaging (container) "clause, on the basis of existing provisions, add the provision of" not easy to be erased ", to provide a basis for administrative law enforcement departments to handle cases.

She reminded consumers that if they buy food with no production date marked, the production date has been altered or has exceeded the shelf life, they can complain to the relevant departments and actively safeguard the rights and interests of consumers.

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