Prospects for the Development of Food Safety Testing Instruments in China

Food safety testing instruments refer to instruments and meters that need to be used in food safety inspection and testing. Currently, in food analysis and testing, gas chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, automatic amino acid analyzers, atomic absorption spectrophotometers, and UV-visible spectrophotometers that can perform spectral scanning, and fluorescence spectrophotometers have all become popular. application. At the same time, due to the introduction of computer technology, the features of the instrument analysis such as rapidity, sensitivity, accuracy, etc. are more obvious. The combination and combination of multiple technologies make the analysis and application of the instrument more extensive, which strongly promotes the development of food instrument analysis and makes food analysis at the same time. In a new era of development.

From the perspective of market demand, the market scale of China's food safety inspection instrument industry has been expanding year by year. Prospective Industry Research Institute released the "2014-2018 China Food Safety Inspection Industry Development Prospects and Investment Opportunities Analysis Report" data show that in 2013 China's food safety testing equipment demand scale reached more than 300 billion yuan in recent years, growth rates are maintained at More than 30%.

Chart 1: Scale of Demand for Food Safety Testing Instruments in China in 2007-2013 (Unit: 100 million yuan, %)

Forward-looking Industry Research Institute combined with the development of China's food safety testing industry in the future, the analysis that the future of China's food safety testing equipment market will show the following trends:

◆ The product will be developed towards efficient, portable, etc. The implementation of the “Food Safety Law” puts forward higher requirements for food safety standards. The testing items will include: pathogenic microorganisms, pesticide residues, and veterinary drug residues in food and food-related products. , heavy metals, pollutants, and other limited provisions for human health substances; the variety, scope of use, and dosage of food additives; nutrient composition requirements for main and auxiliary foods for infants and other specific groups; food hygiene requirements; and food safety Related quality requirements, etc.

The detection methods of the project will rely more on food testing equipment. The market demand for equipment and equipment will be larger and more specific. Equipment and equipment manufacturing companies will develop and provide products that are more professional, highly efficient, portable, functionally integrated, and user-friendly for customers. They are convenient for users to cope with routine food safety testing and respond to detection of sudden food safety incidents. Safety supervision provides basic and rapid technical support.

â—† Domestic equipment will gradually replace foreign-funded products At present, foreign-funded enterprises have strong technical strength, mature and stable products, and high brand awareness; but the high price of products, maintenance and repair costs are expensive, there are not many low-end models to choose from, and domestic equipment procurement On the other hand, the burden on the party is not good, which is not conducive to the improvement of the detection methods of domestic institutions. With the strong breakthrough in the market and industrialization of home-made low-end detection instruments, the cost-effective advantage of domestic equipment will inevitably accelerate the multi-level detection needs of the market, and improve the overall level of domestic food safety testing methods.

â—† Accelerating the reorganization and merger of corporate assets As the localization process of foreign-funded enterprises is accelerating, some small-sized enterprises that rely on price advantages are seriously threatened. Only through the reorganization of assets across regions, departments, and industries can the company become a flagship-type enterprise and compete. Neutrally invincible. China has a large number of food safety equipment manufacturers, but it is large but not strong. According to the laws of market economy, it is an inevitable trend that the process of merger and reorganization of corporate merger assets is accelerating.