All media reporter Kang Jinan
Food safety is related to the lives and health of the people. When buying food, it is a habit of consciously paying attention to the production date.However, the introduction of some food packaging brands is very eye -catching, but it can be concealed by the vital production date. It is either a small font and a blurred handwriting, or it is difficult to find, it seems that they “catch and seek” with consumers.
“I often buy drinks, but finding the production date on the packaging is not easy.” Liu Yan, a 23 -year -old citizen, admitted that “his life is inseparable from drinks.”However, when she was buying a drink, she found that the production date of beverages was “unpredictable.”Liu Yan told reporters that although the packaging reads “See the code for the production date”, the code position is not fixed, and sometimes hidden under the name of the product, very inconspicuous; sometimes spray on the bottle cap, the handwriting is often blurred;Some are printed on the beverage bottle, and it is difficult for consumers to find it.
“I usually like to buy some vacuum packaging foods. The production date of large brands is very clear.In the place, I can see that my eyes are spent. Some bags of food even marked the production date in the folding side. When the packaging bag is torn out, the production date may be torn. “
“Do you help me see where the production date is? I didn’t find it for a long time.” On the evening of March 18th, in the seasoning area of a supermarket in the northern section of the Yellow River Street, Mr. Yu, a citizen, held a bag of hot pot bottoms.Looking at it, I didn’t find the production date, so I had to ask for help from the reporter.The reporter took the hot pot bottom and looked at it for a while, and finally found a string of laser -engraved numbers at the bottom of the back of the packaging bag. These numbers could only be distinguished by the shadow of light.If you touch it carefully with your hands, you will feel that this string of numbers is slightly raised.”This production date is too difficult to find.” Mr. Yu complained.
Many elderly people in our city go to supermarkets to buy soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine and other seasonings.Because the elderly are more frugal, pay special attention to the production date of the goods.Many people have seen such a scene in the supermarket: in front of the shelf, the elderly frowned and squinted, flipped around with the product, and tried to find the production date.The production date is difficult to find, which makes the elderly feel trouble.
Merchants are not only eye -catching on the production date not only affect consumers’ shopping experience, but also endanger food safety.
Some products are multi -layered packaging. When you open the outer packaging, you will find that there are small packages in it.However, most foods are only marked with key information on the outer packaging, while internal packaging is omitted by omitting the production date.After consumers buy home, once the outer packaging is lost, there is no information on the production date and the shelf life on the inner packaging, it is difficult to determine whether the food is safe.
In fact, the production date and consumer “hiding cats” should be a problem of manufacturer’s production process.In order to improve production efficiency and save packaging costs, the outer packaging of goods must be made in advance, and the production date can only be printed during production.The technical problems such as coding and transmission positions are subject to the same product, and the production date may appear in different positions.Although the relevant regulations in my country clearly stipulate that the labeling of the production date should be clear, eye -catching, and long -lasting, it does not clearly specify the specific details.In this case, some manufacturers have naturally ignored the consumer’s shopping experience to save costs.
The reporter also found another problem during his visit.In supermarkets, products such as yogurt, ham sausage, pastry, and other products often discount promotion, but when some foods “buy one get one free” promotion, important information such as production date and shelf life is tightly covered after binding.In a supermarket in Yellow River Street, the two boxes of cakes are tied together to sell together. The production date on the packaging of a box of cakes is “tied” in it. Only tearing the tape can the production date.
In addition, some foods sold on the shelves not only are not clearly marked in production date, but also the shelf life marking method is not uniform.Commodities such as instant noodles and ham sausages are generally marked with production date and shelf life. When buying, consumers need to calculate when they expire themselves, and some products such as puffed foods and biscuits are directly marked to date, consumers, consumers, consumersIt is clear at a glance when buying.”I hope that merchants can uniformly label the production date and expiration date, so that consumers are more convenient when buying goods, and can intuitively understand when the goods expire.”Peng said.
The production date is not uniform, which will increase the operating cost of small and medium -sized merchants.This is because merchants often enter a large amount of product information. The labeling position of the production date of each manufacturer is not fixed, and the labeling method of the shelf life is not uniform. As a result, the merchant should carefully find the production date and the shelf life of the product.maturity.If the expired goods cannot be removed in time, it will increase the business risk of the merchant and infringe consumer rights.
In addition to being too difficult to find and unclear, the production date of some commodities still has the problem of easy to fall off.It is understood that the production date of food products mainly includes three labeling methods: laser printing, inkjet printing and steel printing.In contrast, the production date of laser printing and steel printing is usually stronger, and the production date of inkjet printing may “fall away.”On the Internet, there are many short videos to teach people how to erase the production date and batch number of inkjet printing on the plastic packaging bag.The production date is easy to remove and fall off, which may leave the opportunity for the illegal tampering of the production date, thereby bringing great hidden dangers to food safety.
The reporter’s investigation found that the cost of printing the production date is not high.On the e -commerce platform, there are many merchants selling coders specializes, and more than 200 yuan for more than 200 yuan. The cheap ones can buy a whole set of equipment including machines, printing oil, dialing sticks, ink pads, etc.Essence
The production date and shelf life of the commodity are important contents of the company’s product information to consumers. The production date and the shelf life must be clear, authentic, and accurate.It violated the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, and was suspected of violating the relevant laws and regulations such as the “Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China”, “Quality Law of the People’s Republic of China”, “Protection of the Consumer Rights of the People’s Republic of China”, and “Labeling Food Labels”.
“Whether the product production date and the shelf life are clearly marked, which is directly related to the vital interests of consumers.Essence
According to the provisions of the Food Safety Law, the production date and quality of the pre -packaged food label should be marked, and it must be significantly labeled, which is easy to identify.The product quality method clearly stipulates that the products used for a limited time shall clearly indicate the production date and safe use period or failure period in a significant location.As a national standard for food safety, “Pre -packaging Food Labels” has made detailed provisions on the date of production and shelf life.For example, the production date and shelf life of pre -packaged foods is required to clearly marked the production date and shelf life of consumers, so that consumers are easy to identify and read.When the maximum surface area of the pre -packaged food packaging or packaging container is greater than 35 square centimeters, the height of the text, symbols and numbers of the content of the content must not be less than 1.8 mm.However, there are no detailed regulations on the color, region and method of the production date.In addition, the “Construction Method for Narcissusted Environmental Construction”, which was implemented from September 1 last year, clearly proposed “barrier -free information exchange, barrier -free social services” and “barrier -free environmental construction.The principle of benefiting from extensive benefits. “
Although the definition of “clear” and the standard of “eye -catching” varies from person to person, it is difficult to generalize, but the clear and readable food date label can better improve the consumer’s purchase experience and avoid causing trouble to consumers.It is the embodiment of respecting and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.Regulating the date of pre -packaging food is conducive to the long -term supervision of food safety, and it is also an important foundation for the healthy development of the food industry.It is hoped that this issue can attract the attention of relevant departments, better prevent food safety risks, and protect consumer rights.