Food Safety Microbial Contamination as the Primary Problem

Since November 2013, the China Food Science and Technology Society has started to interpret each week’s food safety hotspot invites experts in related fields. Among them, the year 2014 completed an interpretation of 38 hot spots at home and abroad, including the Fuxi incident.

The report shows that in 2014, malicious incidents of food safety were stopped and gradually reduced. Normal food safety incidents such as microbial contamination, excessive heavy metals, and raw material pollution became major food safety problems in 2014, and this type of issue will be the future of food in China. The main problems facing the industry. The reporter noted that 38 hot spots involved 12 major industries such as meat products, of which 6 were high frequency industries: meat products, liquor, snack foods, oils, staple foods, and dairy products; the key to the 38 hot spots involved The words mainly include seven categories: microbes, food additives, heavy metals, genetically modified, plasticizers, cooking oil, and trans fatty acids. Microbiological contamination was listed as the first hot spot for the first time. Some experts pointed out that this shows that the public’s focus on food safety is gradually returning to the origin of China’s food safety, which is consistent with the issues facing global food safety.

For the future development of the food industry, experts pointed out that the main factors affecting China's food safety - due to environmental pollution caused by pollution of raw materials and other products in China has not been effectively resolved. The pollution of raw materials is bound to be transmitted to the food industry, and this difficult situation is difficult to effectively resolve in the short term. Food safety should work harder from the front end of the industrial chain and start with high-quality raw materials.

Yesterday, the Society also warned the industry that when the overall growth rate of China's food industry slows down and profits decline in 2015, counterfeiting and cutting corners will rise. We must be vigilant, exposed and effectively punished.