Food Safety Issues Drive Food Testing Instruments Development

Nowadays, domestic food safety accidents occur frequently, from food additives to pesticide residues, all of which show that China's food safety problems are extremely serious. Among the current indicators of food safety, the detection of residual pesticides, veterinary drugs, fishery drugs, food additives and other parameters has attracted much attention. Therefore, the improvement of the technology level of low- and medium-end rapid detection instruments is an inevitable factor to promote market growth. In the future, the potential market for analytical instruments in the field of food safety testing in China will be more than 704 billion yuan, of which food processing companies will have a market equivalent of 400 billion and testing organizations will have 345 billion.

The prosperity of the testing equipment market is partly because local food processing companies have increased their investment in food safety equipment and research funds; on the other hand, domestic low-end testing instruments have entered the market, and price levers have spurred rising market demand.

At present, China has more than 23,000 inspection agencies, including agricultural inspection and quarantine stations, disease control centers, product quality supervision and inspection stations, station inspection and quarantine bureaus, and various types of environmental monitoring stations, and more than 400,000 food processing companies. The research team pointed out that the cost of purchasing equipment for food companies to meet product testing is about 1 million yuan, and the cost of testing equipment for testing organizations is about 15 to 30 million yuan. China is a major producer, consumer, and exporter of agricultural products and foods. Currently, it has more than 400,000 food processing companies of all kinds. Today, as the public increasingly pays attention to food safety issues, it is destined that the potential market for food safety testing instruments will be very high in the future. huge.

Rapid testing equipment should go into the family. High inspection fees have now become a barrier for consumers to safeguard their rights. There are hundreds of thousands of large-scale detection equipments and millions of them. Apart from professional third-party testing agencies, only large-scale food companies with strong capabilities can Equipped. These large-scale equipments have high requirements for the operators, and our inspection and technical talent pool is weak. In contrast, rapid test products have low requirements for operators and experimental environments, and are suitable for rapid screening and on-site testing by regulatory agencies, as well as SMEs and individual households.

Food safety has become one of the hot topics in the field of analysis and testing. The sources of raw materials for food in China are scattered and varied. From the control of raw materials to the production and circulation, food safety problems may arise due to certain omissions. The scientific level of human beings is also constantly improving, and the testing requirements involved in food safety are also rising. Frequent food safety incidents are reported by the media and often cause concern for food safety in the whole society. And this quietly promoted the end of the food chain - the detection needs of home users. Can rapid testing methods or new home users form a new market?

In the next few years, the demand for government regulatory agencies alone will amount to several billion yuan for the rapid detection of food safety products. In addition, it has been widely used in food production, distribution, and catering industries, and has recently begun to move toward home users. The market for rapid food safety testing can be completed. At present, rapid food safety testing products on the market include technologies such as enzyme-linked immunoassay, biosensors, and near-infrared. With the continuous improvement of market demand and the follow-up of research and development work, newer technologies have emerged.

State-owned enterprises attach importance to strengthening food inspection In recent years, domestic food safety accidents have occurred frequently, and from food additives to pesticide residues, all show that China's food safety problems are extremely serious. As food safety concerns the health of the people, it is related to economic development and social harmony and stability. At present, it has received full attention from the government.

The survey shows that food safety issues have a great deal of damage to related companies and the industry as a whole. In order to avoid risks and shape brand image at the same time, food companies are strengthening their willingness to manage food safety, especially as the “melamine” and “clenbuterol” incidents broke out. The former allowed Sanlu, the nation's largest milk powder company, to close down. The latter caused the Shuanghui Group to face losses of several billion yuan. In the face of bloody lessons, strengthening safety management has become the consensus of domestic food companies.

At the same time, the state requires companies to assume the main responsibility for quality inspection, and the corresponding companies are also willing to improve safety inspection standards and improve the image of the company and the industry in order to avoid or reduce the impact of food safety incidents. Leading companies in the industry have taken control of upstream raw material control and testing as the focus of improvement and have invested heavily in both areas.

China is a major producer, consumer, and exporter of agricultural products and foods. Currently, it has more than 400,000 food processing companies of all kinds. Today, as the public increasingly pays attention to food safety issues, it is destined that the potential market for food safety testing instruments will be very high in the future. huge.