"Authentic Food Quality Certification" launched in Beijing to identify genuine and fake food using technology

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2020-11-18 10:48

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"Authentic Food Quality Certification" launched in Beijing to identify genuine and fake food using technology

On November 1, 2020, the International Forum on Food Authenticity Technology and Industry Development was held in Beijing. The conference adopted a plenary report format to exchange and discuss topics such as empowering high-quality industry development through food authenticity technology. At the meeting, the "Food Authentic Quality Certification (FA Certification)" was released globally for the first time.

It is reported that the "Food Authentic Quality Certification" (FA Certification) is supported by cutting-edge technologies such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, isotope mass spectrometry, and biological traceability. Through methods like "massive sample data comparison" and "proactive market spot checks," it builds a big data system for food, achieving guaranteed, traceable, and supervised food production and circulation.

Academician Chen Junshi of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center stated, "Identifying the authenticity of food relies on scientific and technological means, which is actually more difficult than detecting pesticide residues. It not only requires certain identification technologies but also extensive international cooperation to establish a real database related to food."

"Food authenticity issues are key and difficult points in current food safety supervision. To solve food authenticity problems, regulatory authorities need to start from the source, effectively strengthen food certification supervision, and do a good job in product traceability," said He Xiaoqun from the Certification Supervision Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation in his speech. Optimizing certification and accreditation services can help enterprises solve practical problems in quality control and certification processes. At the same time, it enhances consumers' awareness and recognition of authentic products.

The Chinese government attaches great importance to food fraud and authenticity issues. In 2017, the Ministry of Science and Technology issued the "13th Five-Year Plan for Food Science and Technology Innovation," which for the first time clearly proposed a special research project on "food anti-adulteration control technology," supporting the development of food authenticity technology. On April 17, 2018, China officially established the International Joint Research Center for Food Authenticity, followed by the preparation of the Food Authenticity and Traceability Branch of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology.

Experts attending the meeting pointed out that under the leadership of the "International Food Authenticity Center" and the "International Food Authenticity Technology Innovation Alliance," a real authenticity database is being constructed to promote the final international consensus on the definition of food authenticity.

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