Do I need a health certificate to apply for a catering business license?

Legal analysis: you need to bring a health certificate to apply for a food business license. Processing flow:

1. Prepare a business place suitable for individuals.

2. Sign a lease agreement and ask the landlord for a copy of the real estate license or land use certificate of the business premises (any copy) for future use.

3, handle the health certificate of the operator.

4. Bring a copy of the lease agreement and the real estate license of the business premises, a one-inch photo and a copy of the operator's ID card to the industrial and commercial department to apply for pre-approval of the name of individual industrial and commercial households.

5. Receive the pre-approval notice of the name of individual industrial and commercial households issued by the industrial and commercial department. Note that this form cannot be lost, and it should be returned to the industrial and commercial department after completing the relevant procedures.

6. Bring the notice of pre-approval of the name of individual industrial and commercial households, a copy of the lease agreement and the real estate license of the business premises, a one-inch photo, a copy of the operator's ID card, the original and a copy of the health certificate to the Food and Drug Administration for a food circulation license.

7. After obtaining the Food Circulation Permit, bring the original and photocopy of the Food Circulation Permit, the lease agreement and the photocopy of the real estate license of the business premises, one-inch photos, the photocopy of the operator's ID card, the original and photocopy of the health certificate, and the notice of pre-approval of the name of individual industrial and commercial households to the industrial and commercial department to apply for the business license of individual industrial and commercial households.

Legal basis: Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Regulations on Hygiene Management in Public Places.

Seventh people who directly serve customers in public places must hold a "health certificate" before they can engage in their own work. Persons suffering from dysentery, typhoid fever, viral hepatitis, active tuberculosis, purulent or exudative skin diseases and other diseases that hinder public health shall not engage in direct customer service before they are cured.

Article 10 Operators of public places shall organize employees to have an annual health check-up, and employees shall not take up their posts until they have obtained valid health certificates. Persons suffering from digestive tract infectious diseases such as dysentery, typhoid fever, viral hepatitis A and viral hepatitis E, as well as persons suffering from active pulmonary tuberculosis, suppurative or exudative skin diseases, shall not engage in the work of directly serving customers before being cured.

Article 45 of the Food Safety Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) shall establish and implement the health management system for employees. Persons suffering from diseases that hinder food safety as stipulated by the administrative department of health of the State Council shall not engage in direct contact with imported food. Food production and marketing personnel engaged in direct contact with imported food shall undergo annual health examination and obtain health certificates before taking up their posts.