The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and fancy mooncakes are online. In the past, many mooncake manufacturers have put a lot of effort into packaging, and the appearance of mooncakes is "pompous", but the substance is not necessarily worthy of gorgeous packaging. From September 1 this year, the requirement to restrict excessive packaging of goods will be officially implemented. The new regulations have strict requirements on the number of packaging layers, void ratio, and whether the product is mixed.
When the State Administration for Market Regulation issued on August 10, 2021, the mandatory national standard GB 23350-2021, "Limiting Excessive Packaging Requirements for Food and Cosmetics", it gave manufacturers a two-year transition period to allow relevant enterprises to digest the old packaging and design new packaging according to the new standard to ensure that the products sold after September 1 this year meet the requirements.
Recently, the reporter visited major supermarkets in Nanjing. In a supermarket on Ruijin Road, the price of mooncakes sold ranges from tens of yuan to more than 200 yuan. Mooncake gift boxes are without exception, and the packaging is relatively simple. In another supermarket in Xinjiekou, the packaging of mooncakes sold is also relatively simple, and the price is very close to the people.
The supermarket salesman said that in order to seize the market, the previous mooncake manufacturers worked the packaging of mooncakes, and such competition also caused a great waste of resources. After the implementation of the new regulations, mooncake manufacturers no longer compare packaging, and also reduce the cost of buying mooncakes. In the past, there were cases of other foods such as tea leaves and chocolate in mooncake gift boxes, but now they are not seen.
In addition to finished mooncakes in supermarkets, many hotels also have a business that sells customized mooncakes. At the Golden Yuan Bao Hotel on Jinfoil Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing, there are many mooncake gift boxes in the lobby. A staff member at the scene said that the hotel has made a total of three mooncake gift boxes, and if you need to order, you can choose according to your needs. At the same time, it is also emphasized that the mooncake gift box is made in full accordance with the requirements of the new regulations on the packaging, and will never be over-packaged.
After looking at the three grades of mooncakes, the zero distance reporter said that he was not satisfied. At this time, the staff of the Golden Yuan Bao Hotel immediately recommended another high-end mooncake, and revealed that this mooncake is called "gold leaf mooncake", which is usually only sold inside.
The hotel staff took out a box of finished products, and the Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake gift box called "Floating Light Leaping Gold" was very beautifully made. In addition to six mooncakes, there is also a golden incense seat, a box of agarwood and a box of gold leaf for jewelry, priced at 368 yuan. Gold leaf is not used as food, but as an element of embellishment into the gift box.
At the Kempinski Hotel on Longpan Middle Road, Qinhuai District, Nanjing, a mooncake gift box called "Qinhuai to the Moon" is sold, in addition to eight mooncakes of different flavors, there is also a set of tea sets and four cans of tea, priced at 568 yuan.
Is there a problem with the mooncake gift boxes sold by the two hotels? With doubts, the reporter brought the "floating light leaping gold" mooncake gift box purchased at the Golden Yuanbao Hotel to the Jiangsu Province Green Degradable Materials Quality Supervision and Inspection Center for testing, and the staff first measured the porosity of the product.
After calculation, the void rate of the mooncake gift box of "Floating Light Leaping Gold" seriously exceeded the standard. In addition, the staff of the inspection center also said that the "Floating Light Leaping Gold" mooncake gift box of the Golden Yuanbao Hotel and the "Qinhuai to Moon" mooncake gift box of the Kempinski Hotel were illegally mixed. Items such as agarwood and calendula should not appear in mooncake gift boxes according to regulations. At present, the reporter has reported the relevant situation to the local market supervision administration.
("Zero Distance" reporter/Dong Xun editor/Jiang Jie, Wang Shuai (intern))