Food safety law test market potential

Yesterday, the State Council executive meeting discussed the adoption of the "People's Republic of China Food Safety Law (Revised Draft)", emphasizing sound risk monitoring, assessment, and food safety standards. In addition to high-level attention, the industry level is constantly strengthening food safety awareness. Recently, the Sino-French Food Safety Symposium co-organized by the State Food and Drug Administration and the French Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry and co-hosted by the Carrefour (China) Food Safety Foundation was held in Beijing. The food traceability system became a food for China and France. Security experts focus the discussion. Analysts said that according to the requirements of the “12th Five-Year Plan for National Food Safety Supervision System”, monitoring of future food contaminants and harmful factors will cover all county-level administrative regions, and the number of monitoring outlets will be expanded to 2,870, which is expected to drive the scale of food inspection market beyond 20 billion yuan, with an average annual compound growth rate of more than 50%.

The food traceability system became the focus On May 12, the China-France Food Safety Symposium co-organized by the State Food and Drug Administration and the French Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and co-organized by the Carrefour (China) Food Safety Foundation kicked off in Beijing. . The theme of the China-France Food Safety Symposium was fork and chopsticks: quality and safety. Following the end of last year, Zhang Yong, Director of the State Food and Drug Administration, met with Garro, Minister of Food Affairs of France, and signed a joint agreement on food safety supervision. Another major event after the MOU on field cooperation.

It is reported that the traceability of French food covers the entire food supply chain from farm farming to market sales, from farm to retail. This method has risen for 10 years under the feature of a limited number of producers in the French agricultural system. In China, the implementation of such a system will be quite complicated due to the vast land, the large number of producers, and the variety of foods in the supply chain. However, perfecting the food traceability system is imperative under the escalation of food safety incidents. To this end, Sino-French food safety experts set up a working group on the promotion of food quality and food safety at this symposium. In the next three years, they will consider some specific features of China and carry out some guidance work in the future development of food traceability systems. .

In this meeting, experts from China and France, relevant departments and enterprises discussed and shared their relevant experiences in key points of food safety and traceability. According to reports, the traceability system is implemented on Carrefour Agricultural Supermarket docking products. Customers can scan product QR codes through mobile phones to obtain product information. This move enhances the customer's quality of consumption and can help consumers truly realize the buying and buying assurance. At present, 30% of Carrefour's agricultural and sideline products and fresh products have achieved super agricultural docking. In addition, Carrefour pioneered the establishment of a food safety laboratory nationwide.

In addition, the China Smart Agricultural Valley Project recently signed a contract in Xiaoshan, which will be jointly organized by the National Traceable Agricultural Products Production Cooperative jointly established by China Supply and Marketing Cooperative Foreign Trade Corporation, China Academy of Inspection and Quarantine and Beijing Agricultural Industry Investment Fund. The traceable technological transformation of 700,000 agricultural production cooperatives, food processing companies, and 100,000 agricultural food import and export companies serving the Chinese inspection and quarantine system in the supply and marketing cooperative system has enabled the products they produce to achieve traceable food safety standards. And on this basis, a national procurement center for traceable agricultural products will be established. Industry insiders generally stated that this will bring about disruptive changes to China's food safety issues.

The speed of development of testing services market is expected to accelerate If time is traced back, in 2008 the melamine incident gave birth to a major development of the food testing service market, and once a testing organization with melamine detection capability and qualifications came out on the market. This year's 3.15 industry gelatin instead of edible gelatin was mentioned in the past. However, it is difficult to detect gelatin. This problem still confuses food safety.

The current unavoidable reality is that there are still many food additives that do not have effective detection methods to measure. This also means that new markets have yet to be broken, and breakthroughs in new testing methods will help boost the expansion of the service market. In the “List of Non-edible Substances that May Be Illegally Added in Foods and Food Additives that May Be Abuse (Group 1-5 Batch)” published by the Ministry of Health in 2011, there are 47 kinds of non-edible substances that may be illegally added in foods. Among them, there are about 20 kinds of detection methods; there are 22 types of food additives that may be abused in food, of which there are as many as 12 kinds of detection methods.

At present, China has formulated and published 303 food safety national standards such as dairy safety standards, mycotoxins, residues of agricultural and veterinary drugs, food additives and nutrition enhancers, pre-packaged food labels, and nutrition labeling standards, covering more than 6,000 food safety indicators. If the Chinese food safety inspection market is calculated based on the ratio of US agricultural output value and food safety inspection, the market for food safety testing in China will be about 2.5 billion yuan in 2009. The market size is expected to approach 8 billion yuan by 2015.

Ten billion market to be tapped In 2010, the scale of China's food safety testing instruments market exceeded 10 billion, and the market growth rate has gradually increased. Analysts said that the prosperity of the testing instrument market is due to the fact that governments at all levels have increased investment in food safety equipment and research funding; on the other hand, domestic low-end testing instruments have entered the market, and price levers have spurred market demand. The climb. Among the current indicators of food safety, the detection of parameters such as residual pesticides, veterinary drugs, fishery drugs, food additives, etc. is of the greatest concern. Therefore, the use of detection instruments such as mass spectrometers, chromatographs, spectrophotometers, etc. is highly lucrative. The market prospects for instruments and rapid screening instruments are promising.

Some research institutions predict that the overall demand for this market will grow rapidly in the next five years, and that miniaturization and low-cost domestic instruments will have a long way to go. At present, the high-end instrument market for food testing is still mainly dependent on foreign companies such as Angient, ThermoFisher and Shimadzu of Japan. Foreign-funded enterprises have strong technical strength, mature and stable products, and high brand awareness. However, high product prices, maintenance and repair expenses are expensive, and there are not many low-end models to choose from, which is a great burden for domestic equipment purchasers.

Localization of detection instruments faces both the technical and management dilemmas. Taking the mass spectrometer as an example, the development of domestic organic mass spectrometers started very early, but the product stability and after-sales service are not good, so there has been no large-scale industrialization. Although there are historical and institutional causes, it is mainly due to the decentralization of limited resources such as technical forces and funds, which cannot form a concerted effort and form a benign industrial cycle through the role of the market. If the domestic testing equipment can form a breakthrough, its relatively strong cost-effective advantages can meet the market's demand for low-cost equipment, and it will inevitably put pressure on the prices of imported products.

At present, China is striving to promote the development of scientific testing instruments and equipment to independent innovation, gradually escaping the unfavorable situation of relying on import tracking imitation, encouraging the combination of production, learning, research and application to promote the transformation of the product structure from low-end to high-end. From small to weak to large and strong. Focusing on ensuring food safety requirements, we will vigorously promote the research and development of testing equipment, miniaturization, and portability, increase the domestic market share of instrumentation, and expand our country's food inspection industry.