The New Moon Cake Standard Implements a National Waste of Billions of Billions in Packaging

According to the "Labor" report, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the sales of moon cakes are beginning to fade. Careful consumers must find that this year's moon cake package marked on the product standard number is "GB/T19855", which is not the same as last year's "GB19855". Last May, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China and the National Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China issued a new version of GB/T19855-2015 "Moon Cake", which was implemented on December 1 last year. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is also the first Mid-Autumn Festival under the new mark.

The " five kernels" moon cake was redefined  

The reporter learned yesterday from the Shanghai Sugar Food Association that in fact, the previous "Mooncake" standard was established in 2005 and implemented for 10 years. The reporter found out that the moon cake category in the 2015 version of the mooncake standard has been more detailedly divided. The classification of processing technology was changed from "baked mooncakes, cooked powder moon cakes and other mooncakes" to "hot processing and cold processing classification." The group's characteristic classifications include six categories: “Tide-style moon cakes”, “Yong-style moon cakes”, “Jin-style moon cakes”, “Joan-style moon cakes”, “Desktop moon cakes” and “Ha-moon moon cakes”.  

According to Zou Jianguo, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Sugar Food Association, the requirements for naming moon cakes have also been refined. The strict requirements for businesses to produce mooncakes in accordance with national standards are to prevent them from cutting corners. The reporters found that the new rules make it clear that the content of lotus seeds in lotus root fillings of lotus root moon cakes should not be lower than 60 %; the lotus seeds content of 100 % can be called pure lotus root; the chestnut content of chestnut-like mooncake fillings cannot be Less than 60 %; fruit and moon cake fillings should not be less than 25 % of fruit and its products ; nuts of mooncakes should not be less than 20 %; and walnut kernels should be used in Wuren mooncakes. The five moon cakes processed from almond, olive, melon seeds and sesame seeds into five fillings can be called five kernel moon cakes.  

Then, the National Baking Products Standardization Technical Committee Pastry Subcommittee issued a document stating that five main raw materials such as walnut kernels, almonds, olive kernels, melon seeds, and sesame seeds are based on the basic description of Cantonese-style five-currency moon cakes, but their ingredients are not Limited to the use of the five nuts described above.  

Insiders pointed out that the original Wu Ren moon cake will not be added to the olive, because its price can reach 200 yuan / kg, are basically imported. “All olive companies must be allowed to make ends meet. Therefore, after the introduction of the new standards, many companies can only add very small amounts of olive kernels to Wuren moon cakes.” According to the source, the definition of nuts in the original Wuren moon cakes did not exist. It is clearly stated that the composition of the nuts in the mooncakes of the South and the South will also have certain differences. "Fortunately, the clear five kernels for mooncakes in the new notification are not limited to five types of nuts, which ultimately reduces the burden on the company."  

Enterprises waste millions of dollars in packaging  

The reporter found that the new standard packaging label requirements, the original packaging label is written GB19855-2005 , and now the new standard is changed to GB/T19855-2015 . "The original standard was a mandatory standard. Now it is a recommended standard. It seems that the demand has been lowered, but this is not the case." Someone in the industry said. Zou Jianguo pointed out that due to this, many old companies in the industry had to stop using the old packaging.  

"The transition period is really too short." Some company officials complained. “The production and sales of moon cakes in the following year must always have a certain margin. Therefore, the packaging of moon cakes will always be left in the third year and will continue to be used in the second year.” And the introduction of the New Deal will only be implemented after only six months. Business pressure suddenly increased.  

" Now the old packaging can't be used. If someone can't label someone, it can't be done. It can only be pushed back. Our packaging is bought for 31 thousand tons and can only be sold at a price of 2,000 yuan / ton." According to the person in charge, its loss on packaging exceeded RMB 1 million. "Large-scale enterprises have more serious losses. From a national point of view, the amount of waste on packaging is hundreds of millions."  

It is understood that moon cake packaging is machine-made, a large amount of order production cycle can reach two weeks. The person in charge said: "We can do 140 in a minute , and now they have done nothing. If the transition period is two years, then the old packaging may be used up."