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Ningxia Shizuishan Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce safeguards Halal food safety during the holidays
2025-05-15
In order to ensure the order of the halal food market during the Spring Festival, safeguard the consumption safety of the Muslim masses, and create a harmonious and stable social environment, the Shizuishan Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce of Ningxia has recently taken action to ensure the safety of halal food during the festival.
To ensure the safety of halal food in Shizuishan during the festival, the Shizuishan Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce intends to take the following measures:
1. Highlight the qualification inspection of food producers and operators.
Focus on checking whether food producers and operators with "Halal" signs have Halal Food Permits and Halal signs issued by ethnic affairs departments. Severely investigate and punish the forgery, transfer, rental, or sale of Halal Food Permits and signs, as well as the unauthorized posting or display of Halal food advertising signs or halal symbols that mislead consumers.
2. Focus on the inspection of business facilities of food producers and operators.
The focus will be on checking whether Halal food operators have placed Halal and non-Halal foods separately as required, and supervising and guiding Halal food operators to set up Halal food areas, counters and Halal food signs. Food producers and operators who have not set up Halal food areas or counters as required or whose Halal signs are not obvious will be ordered to rectify the situation within a specified period of time. Shopping malls, supermarkets and other enclosed business premises are prohibited from on-site cooking of Halal taboo foods, and the illegal operation of selling counterfeit and inferior Halal foods will be severely cracked down.
3. Focus on inspections of the business practices of food producers and operators.
Inspections will focus on the business activities of food producers and operators. Companies and individual businesses producing and selling halal food will be supervised and guided to strengthen the management of their production and operation facilities and premises in accordance with halal dietary customs and practices, and to equip sales trucks, vending baskets, and cashier lanes with halal logos. Severe investigations will be conducted into the illegal use of non-halal food ingredients and additives during production and processing, as well as the use of halal-labeled packaging for non-halal food. Halal food outlets and halal beef and mutton wholesale markets will be strictly inspected for halal logos and designs on packaging. Printing companies will be investigated and punished for illegally printing halal logos and designs on packaging for food producers and operators without halal food permits.
4. Strengthen inspections on the implementation of self-discipline systems among food producers and operators.
Halal food vendors will be inspected to ensure they have established and implemented a system for inspecting incoming goods and requesting invoices and certificates, ensuring the clear origins of goods purchased and sold, and providing traceability. Halal meat slaughterhouses and sales stalls will also be inspected more closely, with strict penalties for any violations of Halal dietary customs in the slaughtering, storage, transportation, and sale of Halal beef, mutton, and other Halal livestock and poultry.
To date, the city's industrial and commercial authorities have dispatched 130 law enforcement personnel and 24 vehicles to inspect 160 halal food businesses. They have also guided eight large shopping malls and supermarkets in establishing halal shopping carts, baskets, and checkout lanes. They have also helped 18 supermarkets establish dedicated halal food sections and counters, along with halal food signage, to ensure a strict separation between halal and non-halal food. They have also investigated and punished 38 businesses for unauthorized use of halal logos inside and outside their premises. Furthermore, they have supervised and guided 21 restaurants and butcher shops that meet the requirements for halal food operations to obtain halal food permits.