Weihai Rushan: Sharing and co-building laboratories to build the bottom line of food safety

Recently, the first quick-frozen food co-construction laboratory in Weihai Rushan City was officially put into operation, Rushan Market Supervision Bureau gave the whole process guidance with the concept of resource sharing and joint development, the joint construction of the laboratory through centralized inspection equipment and personnel, combing standards, integration and transformation, can provide the city's quick-frozen food enterprises with more professional, convenient and safe factory inspection guarantee, open up the lack of enterprise laboratory personnel, reduce the high cost of enterprise factory inspection, maximize the release of "release management service" dividend, stimulate market vitality.
Solve the problem of ex-factory inspection of small and micro food production enterprises, promote the healthy development of the quick-frozen food industry in Rushan City, and optimize the business environment
of the city.

The first is to conduct in-depth research to understand the needs of
enterprises.
There are 114 food production enterprises in the city, only 13 enterprises above designated size, small and medium-sized micro enterprises account for 88%, factory inspection is a very important link to ensure food safety, but also the mandatory requirements of the Food Safety Law, but through our daily supervision and inspection found that the city's large food production enterprises are equipped with perfect food testing laboratories, efficient operation, can timely according to the requirements of the product self-inspection
。 However, small and micro enterprises have limited laboratory conditions, few training and further education opportunities, can not afford to hire or retain high-quality food testing professionals, and there is a big gap between the food testing knowledge level and vocational skills of existing testing talents and the standardized factory inspection requirements, resulting in the difficulty of effectively improving
the ex-factory inspection ability of enterprises 。 At the same time, although small and medium-sized food production enterprises are equipped with inspection rooms as required, due to the small scale of enterprises, high construction and operation costs of inspection rooms, in order to reduce production costs, some small and medium-sized food production enterprises inspection rooms are useless, some lack of testing personnel, some lack of instruments and equipment, some can only test some items, although the products can be issued with self-inspection certificates when leaving the factory, but in fact there are very few products that are actually tested according to the requirements, resulting in unstable product quality and leaving food safety hazards
。 Through many interviews with enterprises, they learned that if the number of commissioned inspections is too large, it will inevitably cause the cost of testing to be too high, and the operating cost of their own established and perfect laboratory is too high, so they urgently hope to allow small and medium-sized food production enterprises that are closer to jointly build food inspection rooms, integrate existing instruments and equipment and testing personnel, share the operating costs of the inspection room, ensure the efficient operation of the inspection room, improve the quality and efficiency of testing, and eliminate potential food quality and safety hazards
.
Therefore, it is imperative to create a laboratory for small and micro enterprises
.

The second is to make meticulous explorations to implement the policy of benefiting enterprises on the ground
.
Through fine calculations, most small and micro enterprises have no more than 10 employees, and some enterprises have an annual profit of less than 100,000.

According to the regulations, each enterprise should hire two laboratory technicians, 4,000 yuan / month salary plus rent, water and electricity, instrument verification, experimental reagent consumption, etc.
, the cost of maintaining normal laboratory operation is about 100,000 yuan / year, equivalent to about
60% of the average annual profit of the enterprise.
If 8 small and micro food enterprises build a laboratory together, hire 2 experimenters, the salary is 8,000 yuan / month, deduct expenses, the cost of maintaining the normal operation of the laboratory is about 136,000 yuan / year, and the average sharing of each enterprise is 17,000 yuan / year, which is equivalent to less than 10%
of the average annual profit of the enterprise 。 Therefore, in line with the principle of grasping the big and not letting go of the small, the Rushan Market Supervision and Administration Bureau selected the site of one of the quick-frozen aquatic products intensive industrial park in the Rushan Economic Development Zone, relying on the existing laboratory of an enterprise above designated size in the park, carrying out renovation and upgrading, dividing the functional area of the enterprise's laboratory, concentrating testing resources and personnel, and undertaking the inspection of the company's factory products, and the relevant expenses are jointly paid
by the beneficiary enterprises.
As a result, the Rushan quick-frozen food co-construction laboratory came into being, small and micro enterprises applauded, up to now, a total of 7 small and micro food production enterprises have joined the joint construction of the laboratory, completed 49 batches of food factory inspection, all qualified
.

The third is to establish rules and regulations to ensure the quality of
product inspection.
After the establishment of the joint laboratory, the Market Supervision Bureau has repeatedly sent business backbones to provide door-to-door guidance to help it improve the management and operation system, optimize the process settings such as business acceptance, inspection operations, and issuance of reports, and regularly carry out quality control supervision of the testing room to promote standardized operation
.
The laboratory is equipped with sample collection room, sample room, instrument room, microbiological testing room, physical and chemical testing room, and medium configuration room
.
There are 4 full-time laboratory technicians, more than 60 sets of various inspection instruments and equipment, more than 20 inspection items, and undertake the inspection
of products, semi-finished products, raw materials, auxiliary materials, packaging materials, production environments, etc.
At the same time, it provides technical consulting services for more than 40 small and medium-sized enterprises in the food production park, improving the level of factory inspection of enterprises and ensuring the food safety of
the production.
The establishment and operation of the shared laboratory has also strengthened the communication between small and micro enterprises and the mutual sharing of information resources, eliminated disorderly and vicious competition, and promoted the development of
the industry.

The fourth is to build a platform to stimulate the vitality of
enterprises.
By building a platform for joint construction of laboratories, food testing resources are integrated, a more fair and orderly business environment is created, and the development of small and micro enterprises is supported, which is not only a policy guarantee for the healthy development of the small and micro economy, but also a necessary condition
for supporting the development of small and micro enterprises.
At the same time, stimulating the vitality of enterprises is a micro-guarantee for the small and micro economy to face challenges and take the initiative to transform, and it is also an inherent requirement
for the high-quality development of the small and micro economy.
The establishment of the co-built laboratory has improved the ability of small and micro enterprises to transform and upgrade; Support and guide small and micro enterprises to establish a modern enterprise system, innovate management methods, accelerate the professionalization of corporate governance mechanisms and diversification of property rights structure, and improve the market competitiveness of small and micro enterprises, so that the establishment of the joint construction laboratory has been highly affirmed
by Hou Chengjun, secretary of the party group and director of the provincial bureau, and leaders of the Weihai municipal party committee and municipal government.

In the next step, the Rushan Market Supervision Bureau will strengthen publicity and promotion, guide small and micro enterprises to join the joint construction of laboratories, and on the basis of summarizing the experience of the previous creation, gradually promote the joint construction of laboratories in the field of food production in the city, truly realize the combination of supervision and service, and effectively improve the food safety quality of the city and further improve the people's satisfaction
with food safety.
(Editor Li Chuang)