The new standard of oil will come out soon, and oil enterprises will face a reshuffle

Introduction: the new edible oil standard concerned by the edible oil production enterprises may be promulgated in the second half of the year The new edible oil standard concerned by the edible oil production enterprises may be promulgated in the second half of the year, an official from the quality management office of the State Food Administration said in an interview with the financial times The current standard of edible oil used in China was formulated from 1986 to 1988, which has become obsolete over time In the first half of 2002, the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine of the people's Republic of China listed edible oil in the catalogue of the first batch of products subject to compulsory product certification For the products listed in the catalogue, the production enterprises should pass the strict examination of multiple links in the whole process of product processing before obtaining the production license for three years From August 1, 2003, edible oil production will adopt market access system The dispute between two processes of innx the safety of edible oil has attracted wide attention in the oil industry and consumers in China since a large number of reports on "the secret of soybean oil soaked in gasoline" were published in a Guangzhou newspaper on December 3, 2001 From then on, the formulation of new standards for edible oil in China has been pushed to the front of the stage After the publication of the INX report, the description that the edible oil produced by the "leaching" method may be harmful to health has made the enterprises in China who use this technology to produce edible oil feel as if they are on pins and needles In fact, this method has been used to produce edible oil in China since 1955, and by the Seventh Five Year Plan period, various scale oil extraction plants had spread throughout the country, according to experts from INX At present, most of the edible oil sold in the market is produced by "leaching" In December 25-27, 2001, INX was hosted by the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine of the people's Republic of China (AQSIQ) and participated in the "seminar on extracting vegetable oil by leaching method" by 8 relevant departments and experts of the country After that, the report of "extracting edible vegetable oil by leaching method can be eaten safely after refining" was obtained Meanwhile, the relevant departments and experts who participated in the seminar affirmed the advanced nature of the extraction of vegetable oils and oils by the leaching method, and believed that without the extraction of oil, there would be no scale and modernization of China's oil industry today In May 2002, the relevant departments held the "national standard examination and approval meeting of edible vegetable oil" in Yantai, Shandong Province, which greatly revised the standard of edible oil which has been used for more than ten years It is said that the new standard approved 8 national compulsory standards for vegetable oil and 5 Compared with the old standard, the new standard will greatly improve the requirements of impurities, moisture and other indicators At the same time, the new standard makes a compulsory division of the "pressing" and "leaching" processes for the production enterprises, explains the quality differences between the two processes strictly, and compulsorily requires the edible oil enterprises to process the products, that is, "pressing" ”Or "leaching", which is indicated on the identification of the products sold In addition, the possible changes are: if the raw materials are genetically modified soybeans, they should also be specially marked; in the past, the way of simply marking "cooking oil" and "salad oil" on the products will be banned, instead of such expressions as "level I and level II" Relevant experts of INX said that the standard was formulated according to the current requirements of consumers for food nutrition, health and safety, the current development trend of domestic and foreign oil industry, and the international standards of the same industry According to relevant experts of INX, with the introduction of the new standard, a large number of weak edible oil manufacturers in China will be eliminated due to the substandard product quality According to experts, China is currently the second largest producer of edible oil in the world, with an annual output of about 10 million tons in 2002 It is predicted that in the near future, the per capita annual consumption of edible oil in China will be increased to more than 15 kg, and the total annual consumption in China will also exceed 14 million tons The huge market and development space of INX not only make China's edible oil production industry become the target of investors, but also the market competition is very fierce By the middle and late 1990s, there were more than 2800 oil factories (workshops) in Heilongjiang Province alone with "leaching" technology as the main production means, and there were more than 16000 various edible oil production enterprises in China According to statistics, there are more than 500 brands of edible oil in China At present, in China's edible oil market, small package edible oil market accounts for about 15% of the whole edible oil market, and the rest are bulk oil Small package oil refers to the bottled edible oil with a capacity of about 5 kg and less than 5 kg, and the bulk oil is generally 180 kg per barrel According to relevant data, in some developed countries, small package edible oil accounts for more than 60% of the total market share, and small package edible oil has a huge development space in China According to the statistics of relevant departments of INX, the sales volume of edible oil market in China in 2000 was more than 90 billion yuan If the innx is calculated according to the "China's oil shortage grows at a rate of 3% - 5% every year" of the relevant national departments, the current Chinese edible oil market should be within 110 billion In terms of types of edible oil, soybean oil accounts for 40% of the total, followed by rapeseed oil, peanut oil and cottonseed oil; in terms of geographical distribution, soybean oil is mainly distributed in the northeast and North China, rapeseed oil is mainly distributed in the Yangtze River Basin, cottonseed oil is mainly distributed in the northwest, and peanut oil is mainly distributed in Shandong, Guangdong, Guangdong and Fujian In contrast with the development of some large enterprises, many small and medium-sized enterprises have issued the exclamation that "the new standard will be a disaster for life and death" The industry insiders pointed out that in the past, the threshold of edible oil investment was low, which made the quality of edible oil market uneven The same is the use of "leaching" production, many small and medium-sized enterprises due to the late refining link requirements are not strict or the equipment is simple, the product quality is naturally unable to compare with large enterprises, the state issued market access system and the new edible oil standard set up a higher standard of competition platform, which will make the poor edible oil production enterprises have no way back In fact, INX "is to standardize and eliminate the market, and to shut out small factories with poor strength and low quality." An expert commented on the new policy However, some insiders also disclosed to the financial times that China's edible oil production industry has a trend of being monopolized by foreign-funded enterprises These foreign-funded enterprises are using various advantages to defeat China's leading edible oil enterprises in a planned way iNx
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