Food safety testing market billions of cakes to be enjoyed

The mandatory standards for food safety will be built on a unified system On July 10, Chen Rui, deputy director of the Food Safety Standards and Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said at the press conference that as of now, 303 food safety standards, including dairy safety standards, have been published. National standards cover more than 6,000 food safety indicators. At the end of this year, we must complete the clean-up of food safety standards. By 2015, we will complete the work of standard integration and solve the problems of crossover, duplication, and contradictions.

Chen Rui said that the current food standards clean-up expert technical group has held 43 standard clean-up work conferences, completed the task of food toxicology evaluation procedures, special dietary food standards clean-up tasks, and will openly solicit opinions from the public in the near future. Other food standards have basically completed the clean-up task and will seek comments in batches.

It is understood that the current food standards system is divided into four parts, one is the basic standards, such as food pollutants, additives standards; the second is the product standards, such as biscuits, beverage standards; the third is the hygienic specification to protect the entire food production process The product is qualified; the fourth is the inspection method, including the inspection method matching the product standard, basic standard and limited standard.

According to the "Food Standards Cleanup Work Plan," the Health and Planning Commission will thoroughly clean up nearly 5,000 food safety standards for agricultural products, food hygiene standards, food quality standards, and related industry standards, and propose cleaning opinions on the continued validity, revision, or abolition of standards. The formation of a food standard system framework.

Yan Wei, deputy director of the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, said that after the clean-up work of the expert group is completed, it will come up with clean-up opinions and finally implement the standard integration process. Standards will be released before 2015. From next year to 2015, the mandatory contents of the current four sets of standards will eventually be integrated into a set of mandatory food safety standards to establish a unified food safety standard system.

Testing the market for billions of cakes At present, the State Food and Drug Administration is in the process of revising the Food Safety Law, and the National Health and Family Planning Commission is also clearing up food safety standards. After the “three plans” of various ministries are made clear, the supervision of food safety will increase. In the industry chain, experts analyzed that the market for food safety monitoring in the future will reach 15 billion yuan. Third-party testing agencies and manufacturers of food safety monitoring equipment will benefit.

With the increasing openness of online information, especially the development of Weibo, the exposure of food safety accidents has been brought into the eruption period. In June 2012, the “12th Five-Year Plan” of the National Food Safety Supervision System was promulgated. The plan clearly establishes food safety risks. The assessment platform, in which the national food safety information platform supervision system directly covers all county-level regions, the number of monitoring points has been expanded from 344 to 2870, and the number of monitoring samples has increased from 124,000 to 2.87 million per year; at the same time, it is required to improve food safety inspections. The ability to test and automate the level of inspection equipment.

Prior to this, China's food safety supervision authority was decentralized across seven sectors. Cross-cutting powers, multi-headed supervision, and decentralized forces caused a regulatory blind spot, leading to frequent food safety problems. After the reform of the department’s major department at the beginning of the year and the announcement of “minimum plans” by various ministries and commissions, The duty of food safety supervision is more clear. In addition, the “Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides in Food” standard was implemented on March 1 this year, and the safety standards for agricultural products have been comprehensively promoted, which will promote the demand for related inspection instruments.

Based on policies and reforms, some analysts pointed out that with the expansion of monitoring outlets and the replacement of testing equipment, the market size of food safety testing instruments during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period should be more than 15 billion yuan. In fact, the amount of food safety inspections that the government has commissioned third-party testing agencies is not large, and it is usually entrusted to laboratories, testing agencies or universities directly under the government to conduct inspections. Insiders pointed out that with the tightening of government supervision, corporate procurement in the upstream of food production will become a new bright spot in the market, and this may accelerate the development of third-party testing.