See the high point of food technology!Chen Wei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, praised Suzhou

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Today (August 26), relying on Suzhou Food Inspection and Testing Center and the key laboratory (the first in the province) established by the Food Inspection and Testing Center of the Suzhou City and the Wuzhong Agricultural and Sideline Branch, it was officially unveiled in the Nanhuanqiao wholesale market.

Chen Wei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the president of Jiangnan University, attended the unveiling ceremony, and said in an exclusive interview with Suzhou reporters that it was expected that the key laboratory to seize the high point of food testing technology and promote the high -quality development of Suzhou's nutrition and health food industry.

Zha Yingdong (left), deputy mayor of Suzhou Municipal Government, and Li Yan (right), deputy mayor of the Wuzhong District Government, unveiled the Wuzhong Agricultural and Sideline Branch Center of the Suzhou Food Inspection and Testing Center.

(Chen Wei, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Jiangnan University)

Q: This morning, the food inspection and testing work survey activities were carried out at the Wuzhong Agricultural and Sideline Branch Center of the Suzhou Food Inspection and Testing Center, and the branch center was officially unveiled and operated. To a certain extent, the laboratory also uses technical means to promote the risk prevention and development of the food industry. Do you have any expectations for such a laboratory?

A: Relying on the key laboratory established by the Suzhou Food Inspection and Testing Center and the Wuzhong Agricultural and Sideline Branch Center, it will focus on the evaluation of food safety fast inspection technology and product evaluation to promote food safety risk prevention and control.

In terms of food safety supervision, fast inspection has its special significance. Whether it is a self -inspection of the enterprise or the supervision of administrative agencies.

However, the fast inspection should be fast, and the false positive is high. Combining the fast inspection and legal inspection, focusing on screening suspicious objects, verification through laboratory methods, neither accidental injuries nor unqualified products, solving effective and operable problems.

Through the research and application basic research of fast inspection forward -looking technology research, the laboratory can effectively play the role of the "firewall" filtering alerter "of the fast inspection. It can be said The government food laboratory of the law inspection function has important practical significance for the efficient supervision of food safety and the safety of the "rations" of the people.

At present, from the perspective of the laboratory construction, the instrument and equipment are advanced and the technical personnel are sufficient. The Suzhou Municipal Government and the regulatory authorities also attach great importance to it. The domestic testing capabilities and levels are at the forefront of Suzhou Food Inspection Center. The construction is effective.

Q: We know that the key to any technology lies in the application of food safety related technologies mainly lies in the food industry. Want to ask you, from a macro perspective, what stage of China's food industry to develop?

A: The food industry is mainly divided into agricultural product processing and food manufacturing. It is the top industry in the national economic manufacturing industry. After decades of reform and opening up, at present, China's food industry has made great progress, and industry development has been relatively complete. In 2021, the output value of the enterprise in the food industry has reached 9 trillion yuan, ranking first in the world.

However, compared with other powerful countries in the world, China's food industry is still in a "big but not strong" stage. The technical capabilities of food processing, the international competitiveness of the enterprise, and the food quality and safety prevention and control capabilities have a certain distance from the world's most advanced country.

Q: Judging from the level of the development of the food industry you just mentioned, what are the gaps between the food industry and food science research and applications in my country and the world's advanced level, and what are the "card necks" issues need to be resolved urgently?

A: Overall, the food industry has a bottleneck that it urgently needs to improve.

First, there are many categories with insufficient self -sufficiency and high dependence in grain and oil food. The self -feeding of edible oil is only 30%.

Second, some core raw materials and ingredients have imported dependence. For example, infant formula foods, especially formula milk powder, dependence on imports, although domestic milk powder has also risen in recent years. For example, the dairy, hypoglycemia, enzyme preparation, etc. in the core ingredients raw materials depends on multinational companies to a certain extent, which are our shortcomings.

Third, compared with the world's advanced enterprises, such as Nestlé and Danone, the level of processing technology and equipment of enterprises has a large gap and a relatively low degree of intensiveization. Most of the equipment of many large food processing enterprises production lines is still imported.

(Visit the Suzhou Food Inspection and Test Center Wuzhong Agricultural and Sideline Products Sub -Center)

Q: So what aspects can we work hard to solve?

A: During the development of the food industry, technology support is very important.

To solve the problem of deep processing of agricultural products, new technologies and new theories should be used to guide food processing and improve quality and efficiency; improve the utilization rate of raw materials. In the past two years, food processing has also proposed the concept of moderate processing.

Guarantee of quality and safety. For a long time, food safety has been the most concerned about the party and the government. In addition to regulatory efforts, technology support is also required. Including testing, traceability, etc., different detection methods require different detection methods to meet the needs of different industrial scenarios.

Nutritional health is the highest stage of food pursuit. In the past, I was full of food, and later pay attention to eating well and quality and safety. Now everyone is more concerned about how to ensure health and food nutrition. How to make foods more nutritious and more needed technology support and technology training.

(Citizen representative visits the Wuzhong Agricultural and Sideline Products Branch of the Food Inspection and Testing Center of Suzhou City)

Q: As a strong manufacturing city, what is the current development of the food industry? What areas can be deepened?

A: Suzhou is the core city of the Yangtze River Delta, and has been the hometown of fish and rice since ancient times. Since the reform and opening up, the industrial transformation has been very successful and has become a model and leader in China's manufacturing industry, but the food industry is not its advantage. How to use the advantages of the manufacturing industry to exert the food industry and deeply cultivate the segmented field. Suzhou can start with the layout of the nutrition and health industry. For example, special medicine foods, functional foods, health foods, etc.

"Food Medicine" is originally the same source. The development momentum of the biomedical industry in Suzhou is very good, which is also potential and advantage for the food industry.

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Chen Wei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Jiangnan University

Chen Wei, male, born in April 1966, member of the Communist Party of China, professor, doctoral supervisor. Since April 2017, he has been the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Jiangnan University, Vice President and Director of the National Food Engineering Technology Research Center. Since February 2020, he has been the president of Jiangnan University and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee.

He has been engaged in research on food microbiology for a long time. He has won the honor of the National Outstanding Science and Technology Workers, the National "May Day" Labor Medal, and the National Advanced Workers. In 2019, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

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