On August 6, the Department of Health of Guangdong Province released a message that according to information returned to the Health Department, most of the catering equipment companies that have been inspected by Guangzhou's health department have had problems in their disinfection.
Yesterday afternoon, the Provincial Department of Health responded to questions from the media about the status quo of centralized disinfection of catering equipment in Guangzhou. In February 2010, the Ministry of Health, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the State Food and Drug Administration jointly issued the “Regulation on Strengthening the Disinfection of Tableware Concentration. After the notice of the unit's supervision and management, the Ministry of Health, the Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the Provincial Food and Drug Administration have forwarded the documents and asked various localities and departments to carry out supervision over the centralized disinfecting units for tableware as required.
At present, in accordance with the principle of territorial management, the municipal health departments are gradually conducting inspections of the companies that have centralized disinfection of tableware within the jurisdiction, and timely communicating with the local industry and commerce departments and industry competent departments. Shenzhen and Foshan have initially completed the turnaround operation.
The city and all districts are also carrying out this work. According to the feedback, the current problems in the centralized disinfection of catering equipment include: the registration address provided by the industrial and commercial department does not match the actual production address; most of the sterilized companies inspected have poor production environment, simple facilities for disinfection, and occupations. The staff did not have health certificates and basically did not have a testing room. For the units that have these problems, the health department requires the enterprises to gradually rectify them.
The Department of Health also responded by saying that the Department of Health will continue to collect feedback from the grassroots implementation process recently. As the centralized disinfection unit involves more than one department, the Department of Health has not considered introducing new implementation rules in the short term.