When eating in a restaurant, many people are used to scalding the tableware first. This lack of trust in tableware hygiene is not groundless. Recently, a reporter from the Xiaoxiang Morning News undercover at a tableware disinfection company in Changsha, Hunan Province, found that the on-site sanitation was shocking: the water used to clean and disinfect tableware was changed only once a day, the dried tableware was still mixed with food residues, and even workers immediately touched the clean chopsticks transmission equipment after wiping their nose with their hands... A series of "crazy operations" were too dirty to bear to see, turn one's stomach!
In fact, this is not the first time that a health scandal broke out in the catering disinfection industry. Before that, many unqualified tableware disinfection companies have been investigated and handled by relevant departments. The reason why individual enterprises dare to commit crimes against the wind is, first of all, due to the interests, they want to reduce losses and save costs; The second is to take chances, thinking that "no one will have problems eating" and "no one will find me here". In a word, the awareness of food hygiene and safety is weak. In order to make money, they are willing to violate rules, regardless of the health of consumers.
In 2021, China issued the National Food Safety Standard Hygienic Specification for Centralized Disinfection of Dining (Drinking) Utensils, which clearly stipulates the hygienic standard and standardized management of centralized disinfection of tableware. It should be said that most of the regular tableware disinfection companies are able to manage strictly and act in accordance with the norms. The professional and standardized cleaning process ensures the cleanliness of tableware. Only a few manufacturers did not fulfill their responsibility to ensure food safety by cleaning and disinfection. However, such manufacturers may threaten the image and reputation of the entire tableware disinfection industry.
A tableware disinfection company cleans tens of thousands of tableware every day and flows into hundreds of restaurants. Whether these tableware are clean or not is related to the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of every consumer, as well as the development and income of the catering industry. If the sanitary condition of disinfected tableware makes people so uneasy, will people reduce eating out? Will you refuse to use sterilized tableware directly?
Therefore, from a certain point of view, some tableware disinfection enterprises should also be "disinfected". Relevant departments should strengthen supervision and frequency, timely find and punish unscrupulous tableware disinfection enterprises and their violations, urge them to strictly implement and implement relevant national standards, strengthen food hygiene and safety publicity, urge enterprises to fulfill their social responsibilities, improve their awareness of the importance of food hygiene, and avoid similar situations from the source, Let consumers enjoy a new "clean" world of tableware hygiene and safety!
