Deliveryman suspended for spitting in food
The contaminated food
A deliveryman has been suspended for spitting into a meal and insulting the woman who had ordered it.
In a video posted online, the man is seen spitting in the food repeatedly and complaining because the woman had refused to come downstairs to pick it up.
He can be heard cursing the woman in the video.
The building has an elevator.
The meal of claypot rice was ordered on September 24 by a woman surnamed Xue in Xuhui District.
The man finally took the food upstairs and Xue finished it, saying the man had been calm when delivering the food to her, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
The order was made on Meituan, a food delivery platform, but the man was not its employee as the restaurant had contacted SF Express for the delivery, according to the platform.
SF Express said on Thursday that the man was signed by one of its suppliers and there had been an investigation.
Seals on takeaway and online-delivery food bags are being trialed in some Shanghai districts before being promoted across the city next year in the latest effort to ensure food safety, Shanghai's food watchdog announced in August.
The seals will prevent contamination during delivery, the Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation said.
Some 2.2 million seals are being trialed in Xuhui, Minhang districts and the Pudong New Area.
By 2020, they will be promoted citywide and all online delivery platforms will be involved in the scheme, the administration said.
In 2017, a delivery driver with Meituan Dianping was captured on camera opening a meal, eating some of it and then spitting it back in the container before delivery. He was fired.
