China's food composition data monitoring submitted high scores

Reporter Zhou Yan

Food composition data is the necessary public health data and basic strategic resource data of the country, the basis for understanding the national nutrition status, evaluating the nutritional quality of meals, formulating food nutrition policies and related regulations, and also guiding agricultural production, food processing and scientific research, and guiding residents' consumption

In order to continuously strengthen and improve the national food composition database, the "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline specifically proposes to strengthen food composition monitoring according to food consumption and establish a food composition monitoring system

33 food composition monitoring sites cover the whole country

Food composition monitoring is an important part of China's nutrition and health work, and it is also an important part of

In 2010, under the leadership and support of the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau of the former National Health and Family Planning Commission, the National Food Composition Monitoring Project began to try for the first time to establish food composition monitoring points in 8 provinces/municipalities including Heilongjiang, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Shaanxi to carry out food composition monitoring in

In 2012, the monitoring points were expanded and adjusted to 15 provinces/municipalities

In 2014, the monitoring points were further increased to 20 monitoring points in 19 provinces (adding special zones in Liaoning, Anhui, Shanxi, Xinjiang and Shenzhen

Ten years of hard work, not to live up to the mission

As of 2020, the state has invested a total of 40.

As the national technical support for China's food composition monitoring work, the Institute of Nutrition has established and improved the food composition monitoring system in China, continuously formulated and revised a number of documents such as phased and annual work plans, technical manuals, food information and ingredient data review rules, data validity evaluation guidelines, etc.

Food composition monitoring work pays special attention to the construction of talent team

With the unremitting efforts of this team, in the past ten years, China's food composition monitoring work has completed the monitoring of different types of food composition data such as prototype food, local specialty food, processed food and finished dishes commonly consumed by residents everywhere, from sample collection to laboratory data analysis, the whole chain strictly controls quality control, establishes an electronic file including food description information, picture information and data data, and continuously expands and updates China's food ingredient database, laying the foundation for more accurate assessment of residents' nutritional status and chronic disease monitoring

The National Food Ingredient Database is constantly expanding

Tracing the development history of food composition data research in China has been cultivated for more than 90 years

In 2020, under the leadership of the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau of the National Health Commission, the Institute of Nutrition and the provincial CDCs of the country conscientiously implemented the requirements of the General Office of the National Health Commission on Printing and Distributing the Work Plan for Chronic Diseases and Nutrition Monitoring of Chinese Residents, and carried out more work

The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is a decisive stage for building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and it is also a key period for

Expand data sources Give full play to the market role mechanism, encourage and mobilize social forces, formulate "Database Inclusion Standards and Management Measures", and standardize the absorption of data

Increase food types In view of the richness of food varieties and processing technology, add more food types, and increase the monitoring

Amplification monitoring indicators to provide a basis for in-depth functional research of ingredients, to provide a scientific basis for the standard research of market claims to be standardized, and on the basis of routine nutrient content monitoring, gradually carry out monitoring of functional components such as plant compounds and food components with special contributions, as well as health effect indicators and safety indicators
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Strengthen the construction of the team Increase the allocation of human resources, and enrich the professional talents
in nutrition, laboratory analysis, statistics, and information platform construction.
Form a complete closed loop
of data production-data editing-data application.
In view of the flow of project personnel, increase training, carry out classified training and on-demand training, improve pertinence and practicality, and ensure the participation qualification
of each monitoring point project.

Strict control of quality standards Lead the formulation and revision of relevant standards, accelerate the formulation and release of "Data Inclusion Requirements and Quality Control General Principles", "Data Quality Evaluation System and Scoring Standards", "Data Sharing and Management Measures", etc.
, and standardize the absorption of food composition data
from food enterprises and research institutions.

Responsible editor: Zhao Yu Review: Peng Zonglu