What are the requirements for catering practitioners to apply for health certificates?

Legal analysis: Health certificates are mainly aimed at catering staff and staff of major pharmacies, and they need to bring their ID cards to the physical examination center or health management center of local 3A hospitals. When you apply for a health certificate, you need to go through the formalities at the front desk of the hospital and then have a physical examination. The common item of physical examination is chest X-ray examination, mainly to check whether there is tuberculosis. In addition, stool culture should be carried out to see if there are Vibrio cholerae, typhoid Bacillus and paratyphoid Bacillus, and to determine whether there are intestinal infectious diseases. Other tests include height, weight, blood pressure, spine and limbs. It usually takes 1-3 working days to apply for a health certificate.

Legal basis: Article 10 of the Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Food Safety in Catering Services of the former Ministry of Health establishes and implements a health management system for employees and establishes health records for employees in accordance with the provisions of Article 34 of the Food Safety Law. Catering service employees shall, in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 34 of the Food Safety Law, conduct health examination every year and obtain a health certificate before taking part in the work.

Personnel engaged in direct food import who suffer from diseases that hinder food safety as stipulated in Article 23 of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Food Safety Law shall be transferred to other jobs that do not affect food safety.