Organic food concept abuse certification labels are casually attached.

Original title: Organic food concept abuse certification label casually attached
In recent years, China's organic food development to good, demand continues to increase, but the credibility is low, consumers have doubts about whether organic food is really much. Reporters found that although China has strict regulations on organic food, but the certification body is messy, uneven, lack of supervision, some food although labeled organic, but in the production process using pesticides and fertilizers. Experts said that organic food is an important aspect of China's agricultural supply-side structural reform, we must strengthen the effective supervision of all links, speed up the construction of the integrity system.
Organic food into a "scented"
with the improvement of the level of consumption of residents, China's food consumption is changing from "eat well, eat well" to "safe and healthy", in which pure natural, non-polluting organic food is becoming "scented".
Reporters recently in Beijing's Dongcheng District, a "Hualian boutique supermarket" to see, labeled "organic food" in front of the counter customers endlessly, although the price is significantly higher than similar products, there are still customers glued to the "organic certification" logo of cucumbers, tomatoes, pork and other agricultural products into the shopping cart.
, who is in Beijing, is a regular customer of an organic supermarket. She told reporters that she chose organic vegetables because she wanted to eat healthier. "Organic vegetables are more affordable than regular vegetables, but they are more reassuring for the elderly and children."
demand from the consumer side is naturally transmitted to the production side.
Reporters recently in Heilongjiang Province, Tianhua Farm, Tianhua Farm head Sun Qiang said that the farm transferred 23,000 mu of arable land, the implementation of cattle and horses farming, artificial weeding, the use of farm fertilizer, all the development of organic agriculture, its production of organic soybeans, corn, rice sold throughout the country, the current organic product certification has reached 10.
, while Ms. Jiang Yuhong of Beijing has developed her own organic farm on the outskirts of Beijing. Now Jiang Yuhong's farm has accumulated more than 20,000 family members, more than 200 enterprise members, in Beijing, Shanghai and other places contracted more than 7000 acres of land, all grown organic vegetables.
According to He Xiaoqun, deputy director of the registration and management department of China's State Certification and Accreditation Supervision and Administration Commission, China's organic agricultural cultivation area accounts for 1.1% of the country's agricultural arable land, basically the same as the world average. "Although there is still a distance from the level of generally above 5 per cent in developed countries, organic agriculture is growing rapidly in China, with the number of certifications growing at a rate of more than 10 per cent per year." He Xiaoqun said.
Xiaowei, deputy director of the Office of the Leading Group for Green Food Industry Development in Heilongjiang Province, said consumers are paying more and more attention to food safety, and demand for organic food is increasing at a rate of more than 20% every year. McKinsey, an international consultancy, surveyed 10,000 consumers in 44 Chinese cities in 2015. Despite the high price, 50 per cent of consumers say they are willing to pursue high-quality products, including agricultural products, according to the survey.
, China's total output value of organic products is 136.4 billion yuan, domestic sales of about 36 billion yuan, organic labels for the record 1.74 billion pieces. A total of 56 certification bodies carried out organic product certification activities, 11051 enterprises obtained organic product certification certificate 17104. Certified organic plant production area reached 1.945 million hectares, total livestock and aquatic products production of 1.352 million tons, product processing volume reached 2.284 million tons.
organic certification label casually attached
reporter found that China's organic food market in the certification, labeling there are many problems. In a supermarket in Harbin, the reporter saw a soy sauce product marked with organic signs, but did not see the certification body. According to the relevant regulations of organic food in China, qualified organic products must contain organic certification label, organic code, certification body name three information.
In addition, the reporter also found in Shenzhen, Guangdong, a so-called "organic production" of the farm, the sale of food mainly includes vegetables, eggs, the implementation of the membership system, its quarterly ingredients "package" prices range from 1200 yuan to 2200 yuan. Industry insiders believe that such as the "organic" agricultural operators more and more, there is no effective regulatory means, leading to the proliferation of "fake" organic products, disrupting the market environment.
" real organic products, the need for certification identification, organic code and certification body-related information, all three are indispensable. Chen Encheng, Deputy Researcher, Registration and Management Department, China National Certification and Accreditation Supervision and Administration Commission. However, the reporter found that many businesses under the banner of "organic production environment", "organic production mode" and so on, its authentic consumers are often difficult to identify.
The Xinxin Organic Rice Professional Co-operative in Yanshou County, Heilongjiang Province, has grown 3,800 mu of organic rice through rice cladding technology, and after several years of development, the cooperative has begun to take shape, but Yao Hongliang, the co-operative director, is very depressed. "It's very difficult to develop organic rice, not only with high investment costs and strict production processes, but some companies just pay for an organic certification, produce it as non-organic rice, label it with organic rice, and the price doubles, and we make more money than we do." Yao Hongliang said, "This situation is more common, disrupting the organic products market, we are helpless." "
this is because certification bodies are cluttered, uneven, and lacking in authority. A cooperative in Heilongjiang Province began developing organic rice in 2012 and began certification of organic products in 2015 after a three-year rotation period. The head of its cooperative said that the community more organic certification bodies, how few fees, there is no uniform certification standards, at first do not know which to choose, or the local agricultural sector recommended, only to choose a certification body for certification.
It is understood that the current national certification of organic products has more than 11,000 production enterprises, there have been a number of organic industry as the main business of industry associations, reporters to "organic", "association", "alliance" as the key word in the "national organization code information verification" system query, found that the relevant industry organizations have 304, the main body confusion and can not judge whether it is real. Wang Zhen, a researcher at China Agricultural University, said that China's organic certification as a whole has no authority, and that certification and certification are not relevant to consumers.
the relevant provisions, the institutions that carry out organic product certification and certification consultation within the territory of our country shall obtain the approval of the competent national authorities, otherwise their acts shall be illegal. At present, there are 23 bodies approved to carry out organic product certification, and 25 institutions that can carry out organic product certification consulting. When the reporter searched the relevant organic certification bodies on the Internet, he found that a number of institutions carrying out organic certification did not appear on the official website of the China National Certification and Accreditation Regulatory Commission.
, some of the operations in the process of organic certification are too arbitrary. An industry insider who develops organic cultivation told reporters that an area of 1000 acres of land, certification bodies generally only choose three samples for sampling, so that there are a lot of cats, such as can be specifically out of a few pieces to develop organic cultivation, soil, product certification is easy to pass, but other plots are produced according to non-organic, and finally sold according to organic food. An agricultural expert has introduced a real case: there was a Northeast certification body, soybean samples sent to Shanghai for inspection, found to be non-organic. When the producer proposed a second inspection, the agency picked soybeans from non-cultivated areas and passed the organic certification.
need to strengthen policy implementation and supervision
organic food has effectively adapted to the upgrading of consumer demand, is an important aspect of China's agricultural supply-side structural reform. It is reported that China has been implementing the Organic Product Certification Management Measures since April 1, 2014, when this management method was called the most stringent "organic" new regulations. Despite this, there are still many problems in the organic food industry, which has aroused widespread concern about the quality and safety of organic food.
this end, experts suggest that we should strengthen the construction of social integrity system, increase the intensity of punishment. Ma Wenfeng, a senior analyst at Iger Agriculture, said that in order to build a social integrity system, enterprises producing organic products should establish a brand awareness, it is best to build a field-to-table industry chain model, the industrial chain closed operation, strict channel management, and increase the punishment of counterfeiters.
, law enforcement inspections should continue to be stepped up. According to the list of certified products published by the State, relevant departments of the State, such as agriculture, environment, quality supervision, industry and commerce, entry and exit inspection and quarantine, shall jointly organize and carry out illegal production of organic products, forgery, counterfeiting, over-time, over-range use of certification marks, false propaganda and other illegal acts of law enforcement inspection and product quality spot checks, and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
addition, we should strengthen the certification of organic products and the implementation of standards. Wang Zhen said that China's current certification bodies and certification system are relatively perfect, but the problem is in the implementation of policies and whether there is practical utility. It is suggested that the National Accreditation and Supervision Commission should make full use of foreign practices, increase the implementation of the relevant national standards, urge certification bodies to carry out certification activities in strict accordance with the provisions, and seriously investigate and punish violations such as weak supervision after certification bodies' certificates.
experts also recommend that "organic food" certification standards should be clarified as soon as possible, clean up fish and dragon mixed industry organizations, by designated agencies or associations for organic product certification, to ensure the authority of organic certification. (Wang Jian Sun Qi)