Food safety testing instruments have a bright future

In recent years, the frequent occurrence of domestic food safety accidents, from food additives to pesticide residues, has all shown 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.

In March last year, the State Council promulgated the "Circular of the General Office of the State Council on Printing and Distributing Key Work Arrangements for Food Safety in 2011" to expand the scope of food safety inspections to a wider range. This year, the state has even introduced regulations to severely punish food safety violations.

The current 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 the brand image, food companies are strengthening their willingness to manage food safety, especially with the successive outbreaks of melamine and clenbuterol. 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.

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. In the future, the potential market for analytical instruments in the field of food safety testing in China will be over 704 billion yuan, of which food processing companies will have a market equivalent of 400 billion, and testing organizations will have 345 billion, and the demand for consumables will not be counted.