Prospect of market development of irradiated meat products in China

Introduction: a kind of irradiated fresh meat product - irradiated meat product, with its advantages of safety, health and reliability, is gradually entering the market Experts predict that with the improvement of national food safety awareness, this new product is still blank in the field of domestic commercial meat products, and its market prospect is very attractive According to experts from the Institute of radiation processing, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the use of electronic beams, gamma rays or X-rays to irradiate precooled meat products can effectively kill food borne pathogens and infectious parasites and extend the shelf life of meat products by intensifying water molecules and other molecules contained in food Compared with other sterilization technologies, the outstanding characteristics of irradiated meat products are: low loss of nutrition, no change of color, flavor and shape of fresh meat; health and safety, no residue of any harmful substances; strong ray penetration, no need to disassemble the original packaging, etc In 1999, the International Conference on irradiated food agreed that irradiation is the best way to control meat disease The research on Irradiated Meat started earlier in the world, and it has entered into commercial production and import and export trade in the past decade In 1991, the international icgfi (World Food Irradiation Advisory Group) formulated the "process specification for irradiated livestock and poultry meat"; on February 22, 2000, the U.S Department of agriculture and the FDA allowed the "act on the control of pathogenic bacteria in irradiated refrigerated and frozen meat products" to enter into force Since then, the product packaging has been marked with the international radiation mark - radira, marked "irradiated" or "electrified" The irradiated meat products of "sub irradiation treatment" are rapidly popular in the U.S market, with a market share of about 30% in more than one year At present, irradiated meat products have been commercially sold in 18 countries, such as the United States and France, with a good momentum Since the 1980s, the research on irradiated meat has been carried out in China, and many achievements have been made in nutrition, toxicology and other aspects The national standard, the hygienic standard of irradiated frozen packaged livestock and poultry meat, has been formulated Since the ninth five year plan, the Institute of irradiation processing of Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences has undertaken the national key research project "Research on the commercialized processing technology of irradiation precooling pork sterilization" and the key scientific research project "Research on the industrialization of irradiation cooling packaging segmentation meat" of Hubei Province Based on the experience of foreign countries and combined with the actual situation of our country, the research on slaughtering, refrigeration, segmentation packaging, transportation and post irradiation cooling sales has been carried out The whole technological process has been studied systematically The first technological standard of irradiated meat in China, the "irradiation sterilization technology of cooling package and segmentation pork", has been listed in the national standard formulation plan Lin ruotai, associate researcher of Irradiation Processing Research Institute of Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other experts believe that although the technology and technology of irradiation meat products in China has been mature, the industrial development is still in a blank state, which contains huge business opportunities - food safety accidents are still frequent all over the world, and food safety issues have become a hot topic of global concern According to a statistics of the World Health Organization, in developing countries, the number of deaths caused by food borne diseases accounts for one fourth of the total deaths, among which various foodborne pathogens and infectious parasites are the main killers In recent years, food poisoning incidents caused by food pollution and environmental pollution occur frequently in China, and the safety of traditional meat products is being seriously challenged - changes in the distribution market of meat products provide market space for the commercialization of irradiated meat products After China's accession to the WTO, the chain supermarkets led by commercial giants will gradually become the mainstream of China's retail business, the traditional way of meat circulation in market trade will be gradually replaced, and meat products will be more and more sold in supermarkets Irradiation meat products with its health, safety, long shelf life (about 30 days), in the supermarket management has a great advantage - the development of irradiated meat products is conducive to enhancing the competitive strength of Chinese meat products in the international market In recent years, China's meat production has continued to grow, but the export has not increased at the same time, and the export volume of major varieties has even declined One of the important reasons is that the health standards fail to meet the import requirements of developed countries and regions in Europe and the United States - according to the Montreal Convention, the use of traditional refrigerants, bromomethane, will be banned in developed countries by 2005 and in developing countries by 2015 This challenges the traditional methods of preserving meat by refrigeration in China, but provides opportunities for the development of irradiated meat market (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: