At present, the requirements for the health certificate of sales riders in the country are not uniform. Some provinces and big cities have issued their own food safety supervision and management measures for online catering services, emphasizing that take-away food delivery personnel must hold health certificates. This is a further emphasis on food safety. Local take-away platforms have repeatedly reiterated strict compliance with the regulations, claiming that all riders who enter the industry have been strictly examined by health certificates, and some platforms also upload health certificates to the client for supervision by ordering users.
However, the repeated occurrence of health certificate fraud makes this regulation and the promotion of take-away platforms seem to be ineffective. As ordinary consumers, we don't have the ability to distinguish authenticity, and there is no way to verify it. Even if all platforms publish photos of certificates, we can't identify them as easily as searching for the authenticity of business licenses. And obviously, the ability of the takeaway platform to verify the authenticity of the health certificate also has shortcomings.
At present, the falsification of health certificate seems to be simple and convenient, with low cost and high efficiency, but the real health certificate needs to be reviewed first, and then it will take about a week to get it. Without strict audit system, it is inevitable to leave loopholes for others to take advantage of. Objectively speaking, there are omissions in the platform audit, which are both "unable" and "unwilling". "No" is because there is no uniform style of health certificates, and the formats of health certificates issued by different places and hospitals are different, so it is difficult to review them. At the same time, there is no uniform number, and it is impossible to verify them by certificate number, not to mention that the fake certificate industry has already reached its peak in this field. "Unwilling" means that there is almost no threat to the intensity and punishment of this "counterfeiting", and the repeated release of water from the platform does not seem to have caused much negative impact, so the problem of lax management in this field has not fundamentally changed.
If the fake health certificate can pass the platform audit smoothly, and people who do not meet the health conditions can also go to work to deliver food smoothly, then this regulation is only superficial and has little significance. Moreover, it is impossible for the regulatory authorities to review the information of all riders one by one, and this loophole may be difficult to fill.
Since last year, the problem of falsification of rider's health certificate has been reported every once in a while, but there has been no substantial progress in solving the problem. The self-discipline of the platform has obviously lacked motivation, and this problem will eventually be further clarified and solved by the regulatory authorities. Whether it is to uniformly number health certificates to ensure that the platform can check the authenticity, or to require the platform to uniformly handle health certificates instead of handling them individually, we must first make it clear that "strictly controlling food safety" cannot be just a provision or take-away advertisement, but must have the vitality of real implementation.