National Standards for Reducing Food Waste Effectively Implemented

SAMR has recently monitored the implementation of national standards for reducing food waste. The results show that the effective implementation rate of these standards has reached as high as 94.4%.

The standards that are most frequently used include GB/T 39002-2020, Guidance on individual dining system in catering service, GB/T 40042-2021, Green catering operation and management, GB/T 42966-2023, General rules for management of anti-food waste in catering, and GB/T 33497-2023, Specification for quality management of catering enterprise. The monitored implementation times of each standard have reached more than 10,000, which indicates that reducing food waste becomes a conscious action of the whole society.