The Catering Service License is applicable to food production and processing enterprises.
"Food Circulation Permit" is aimed at enterprises selling stereotyped packaged food.
Catering service license:
Catering service license, China catering business license. According to the Food Safety Law, which came into effect on June 1 2009, China officially launched the Catering Service Permit on June 1 2009, replacing the Food Hygiene Permit that has been used for decades.
The Food Safety Law officially promulgated at the end of February 2009 established a segmented food safety supervision system in China. Health, agriculture, quality inspection, industry and commerce, food and drug supervision and other departments perform their duties, and are responsible for the supervision of food production, food circulation and catering services. According to this law, since June 1 2009, food and drug supervision departments have replaced health supervision departments to supervise catering services, and catering service licenses have replaced food hygiene licenses.
In order to do a good job in the renewal of catering service licenses, the State Food and Drug Administration of the United States issued a special notice, requiring catering service operators at all levels to apply for new, modified, extended and renewed licenses from June 1 2009, and catering service supervision departments at all levels should issue catering service licenses in strict accordance with the requirements of the Food Safety Law.
At the same time, it is clear that if the catering service operator obtains the Food Hygiene Permit before June 1 2009, the permit will remain valid within the validity period, and the Catering Service Permit will be renewed according to relevant regulations.
Food business license:
Hygiene license for food production and operation is one of the categories of hygiene license, and it is a legal certificate issued by the national health authorities to food producers and operators to allow food production and operation.
In China, according to the provisions of the Food Hygiene Law, food production and marketing enterprises and food vendors must obtain hygiene licenses before they can apply to the administrative department for industry and commerce for registration or change of registration. Measures for the administration of the issuance of health permits shall be formulated by the health administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.