Chongqing: Penalty for Selling Substandard Food to Students Up to 50,000 Yuan

(Reporter Chen Guodong) Yesterday, the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce and the Municipal Education Commission jointly convened a mobilization meeting for the "100 Days of School Food Safety Remediation Campaign." From now on until February 10th next year, the two departments will be present in all major, elementary and junior high schools and kindergartens in the city. Food circulation business activities, and food distribution business activities within a 50-meter radius around the campus were rectified. Li Lin, deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce, said that any unqualified food that is worth less than 10,000 yuan to students can be fined up to 50,000 yuan.

Li Lin said that the 100-day rectification operation mainly included 10 tasks such as the inspection of unlicensed and unlicensed operations, the inventory of unqualified food, and the inspection of health certificates of employees. He explained that anyone who sells food worth less than 10,000 yuan to students can be fined up to 50,000 yuan if he is only worth a dime. Serious cases will be transferred to the judicial authorities.