Difficulties in the new national standard of dairy products highlight the weakness of the testing industry

Recently, a new national standard for dairy products has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life. “In China's current dairy industry standards, the maximum allowable total number of raw milk bacteria has been adjusted from the old version of 500,000 to 2 million per ml, which is the European Union and the United States. The standard of 20 million times. At the same time, the protein content has also been reduced from the original 2.95g/100g to 2.80g/100g.” This markedly backward standard is considered to be the worst in the world. Experts claim that for such a Product standards are likely to affect people's daily food safety.

For so many years, our farming standards have improved over the past, and conditions such as craftsmanship and equipment have also been greatly improved over the past. While everyone strives to improve quality, they have also widened the most source indicators. This is not just a regression of standards. Behind it is the backward performance of the instrumentation industry for the overall detection capability of food safety.

Since the reform and opening up, China's instrumentation inspection has greatly improved in terms of industry scale, instrument types, technological innovation, quality and safety. However, the experience in dairy product testing is seriously insufficient, the entry time is short, and the detection foundation is weak. Especially due to the reasons of milk source management, quality control, and detection methods, quality and safety problems occur from time to time, giving consumers' lives and property. Safety damages. The major melamine food safety incident that occurred in September 2008 exposed the loopholes and detection techniques of the quality inspection systems of dairy products manufacturers, and the weaknesses of the inspection methods and the imperfectness of the products. The national dairy industry is basically not equipped with sophisticated testing methods and capabilities capable of inspecting melamine, heavy metals, trace elements, vitamins, etc., lacking rapid product quality testing equipment, and production of on-line inspection equipment, and cannot adapt to ensure that raw materials enter the factory and production process. Product factory batch approval requirements. After the melamine incident, many companies, especially large-scale backbone enterprises, quickly purchased inspection equipment and strengthened inspection methods and capabilities. The quality of dairy products has been greatly improved. However, the overall testing equipment is incomplete, unmatched, poor in stability, inaccurate in accuracy, and low in automation. It cannot meet actual production needs and there are still product quality and safety risks.

The management issue is very important. The investment in technical means is also a problem that the government should pay attention to in the food safety work. Many grass-roots food quality inspection units are faced with the problem of insufficient inspection equipment and backward detection methods. The government needs to increase investment in food inspection and testing equipment of the quality inspection system, focus on improving the inspection and supervision capabilities of grass-roots quality inspection departments on food safety, and improve basic working conditions and detection levels. The enterprises also need to invest in testing equipment, strictly implement the quality and safety management system according to the existing standards, undertake the due social responsibilities, and realize self-development.

With regard to strengthening the requirements for the construction of food safety testing capabilities, joint efforts of the entire instrument testing industry are needed to strengthen scientific research and formulate safety inspection capacity building implementation plans. Raise the level of food safety of dairy products, resolve and reduce food safety risks, safeguard the rights and interests of consumers, and maintain social stability and harmony.