Analytical Instrument Technology Exchange Meeting Held in Changsha

The issue of food safety has become a matter of great concern to ordinary people in recent years. As the country attaches great importance to food safety issues, more and more items need to be detected, and higher requirements are placed on detection technologies and instruments. How does the analytical instrument industry meet the challenge? How to seize the opportunity? On June 28th, an exchange of analytical instruments and sample pre-processing technologies was held in Changsha with the theme of “building a national brand and escorting people’s lives”. Major companies from the industry focused on food safety issues.

The person in charge of the conference organizer Hunan Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. introduced that the new situation faced by food and drug safety challenges the analytical instrument industry. For example, pesticide residues and veterinary drug residues in foods have always been of great concern to the government and the public. In order to prevent harm to humans and animals, many countries and regions currently regard pesticide residues and veterinary drug residues as major control items, which are listed as mandatory inspection indicators. In China, there are 10 chemical pesticides as priority inspections. In recent years, 8 national standards have been issued for the implementation of multi-residue pesticide testing. The detection of such indicators is based on testing equipment to determine, and the technical level and quality of these equipment and related testing products directly affect the lifeline of the people, so the academic community has always compared the detection equipment as a materialized judge.

How to be a good "judge" requires constant progress and innovation in technology. At the conference, industry major companies and experts from Nanjing, Beijing, Shanghai and other regions shared information on the latest technologies and explained the specific cases to improve the technical level of operators' instrument analysis and sample preparation and solve practical problems. Ability; At the same time promote the promotion and application of related technologies in the industry.

According to the data from the China Food Industry Association, in 2012, the total output value of China's food industry exceeded 9 trillion yuan, second only to the petrochemical industry, and the output value of pesticides, fertilizers, feedstuffs, food additives, etc. directly related to food safety. More than 1 trillion yuan. At present, China has more than 23,000 monitoring agencies such as agricultural inspection and quarantine stations, disease control center stations, and product quality inspection centers (stations), and more than 400,000 food processing companies. Based on this, the potential market for analytical instruments in the field of food safety monitoring in China is more than 704 billion yuan, and the annual market capacity for testing consumables exceeds 50 billion yuan.

Experts at the meeting introduced that a considerable part of the export products of the instrumentation industry in China have advantages such as large-scale production and complete industrial chain. They have certain competitiveness in the international market, and some high-end products and service exports also show an upward trend. However, the situation in the industry as a whole is not optimistic. At present, domestic enterprises are facing fierce competition from foreign manufacturers. Independent innovation, transformation and upgrading of enterprises are the key to adjustment of industrial structure and adjustment of product structure and efficiency of enterprises.

The conference exhibited analytical instruments using new technologies. Hunan Chuangte has settled in Changsha and will produce chromatographs and spectrometers to fill the industry gap in the province.