This year's mooncake packaging "slimming" effect appeared

The China Bakery Sugar Products Industry Association (hereinafter referred to as the "China Bakery Sugar Association") and the China Consumers Association (hereinafter referred to as the "China Consumer Association") jointly carried out the special consumption supervision report on excessive packaging of mooncakes (hereinafter referred to as the "Supervision Report"

In order to advocate the concept of green consumption, build a conservation-oriented society, and further curb the phenomenon of excessive packaging of mooncakes, from the beginning of August to September 7, the China Bakery Sugar Association and the China Consumer Association revised the mooncakes produced before August 15 according to the "Restrictions on Excessive Packaging Requirements for Commodities Food and Cosmetics" (GB 23350-2009), and in accordance with the "Restrictions on Excessive Packaging Requirements for Commodities Food and Cosmetics" (GB 23350-2021) National Standard No.

In the process of consumer supervision, the consumer rights protection volunteer team of the China Consumer Association is used to participate in providing clues, entrust professional institutions to confirm and verify clues, and conduct market-wide coverage supervision through a combination of online sweeping and offline experiential consumption, focusing on supervising the packaging of mooncakes such as the number of packaging layers, packaging void ratio, and mixed packaging

The consumer supervision investigated a total of more than 8,000 independent sales of mooncake products, and the investigators sampled and purchased some of the mooncake products that were highly suspected of excessive packaging problems as ordinary consumers, and found that there were problems in 8 mooncake products, including 5 mixed packaging and 3 unqualified

The supervision report shows that the "sky-high" mooncakes are less, the "people-friendly" mooncakes are more, and the mooncake packaging "slimming" has achieved results

First, the "slimming" of mooncake packaging has achieved results, and the number of packaging layers has all met the standard

Second, there are fewer "sky-high" mooncakes and more

Third, the phenomenon of mixed packaging exists sporadically

Fourth, there are very few cases of unqualified porosity

Fifth, buy mooncakes online, and individual merchants ship slowly

It should be noted that the old standard does not prohibit the mixed installation of mooncakes, and the new standard fully considers saving resources and energy and reducing the burden on consumers, and clearly requires that mooncakes "should not be mixed with other products" to ensure that mooncakes are "lightly loaded"

The supervision report shows that the mooncake with close price and green environmental protection has become the mainstream of this year's mooncake market, "the mooncake is bigger" and "the box is environmentally friendly and thin", which has become a beautiful scenery

The rapid and effective implementation of the new standard is inseparable

Judging from the current results of the excessive packaging of mooncakes, the problem of excessive packaging of goods has attracted widespread attention from the whole society, with the full implementation of the national standard of "Restricting the Excessive Packaging Requirements of Commodities Food and Cosmetics" (GB 23350-2021), the problem of excessive packaging of other commodities is also expected to be effectively solved

The China Bakery Sugar Association and the China Consumer Association suggest that in order to further achieve the goal of resource conservation, better establish a mechanism to regulate and guide the high-quality development of related industries, and create a healthy, rational, economical and environmentally friendly civilized consumption foundation, all sectors of society should summarize the successful experience of the effective implementation of the national mandatory standards for restricting the excessive packaging of mooncakes, continue to increase the publicity and implementation of national standards, strengthen the supervision role of industry associations and the implementation of the main responsibility of enterprises, increase market supervision and inspection, and increase the publicity and popularization of green consumption concepts

China Food News (2022-09-19 05 edition)