How many types of health certificates are there?

There are two kinds of health certificates: general health certificate and food health certificate. Food health certificate is the health certificate that people in the catering industry need. Health certificate refers to the proof of preventive health examination, which proves that the examinee has the health quality to engage in the prescribed business. Health certificate mainly involves six diseases in five industries, which largely protects the health of employees and clients.

legal ground

Article 23 of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Food Safety Law

Food producers and business operators shall, in accordance with the provisions of Article 34 of the Food Safety Law, establish and implement a health examination system and a health file system for employees. If the persons who come into contact with directly imported food suffer from digestive tract infectious diseases such as dysentery, typhoid fever, viral hepatitis A and viral hepatitis E, and diseases that hinder food safety such as active tuberculosis, suppurative or exudative dermatosis, the food producers and operators shall adjust them to other jobs that do not affect food safety.