Food safety depends on testing equipment

In the past few years, food safety problems have occurred frequently, and pesticide residues are also one of the influencing factors. Many incidents in the first half of the year are related to food safety. In the face of excessive detection of pesticide residues, various areas throughout the country have actively taken various measures to deal with pesticide residues and must strengthen supervision and inspection.

The 308 pesticide inspectors in Hangzhou built a “firewall” for the food basket. More than 90% of the farmers' markets in Hangzhou set up a rapid qualitative testing room and implemented a food safety inspection system. As long as 30 minutes using rapid detection equipment can detect vegetables on the market does not meet the standard. For non-conforming, it can be processed in time. Wutun Town, Yanliang District has established a quality and safety supervision station for agricultural products, and equipped with equipment such as rapid testers for pesticide residues, which can quickly and qualitatively detect organophosphorus and carbamate pesticide residues in vegetables and fruits. In addition, village-level supervisors have been set up in each village of the town to supervise the sale of agricultural input products within the village, and it is forbidden to sell illicit pesticides, highly toxic pesticides, expired pesticides and counterfeit medicines, so that agricultural product quality and safety supervision and inspection will cover the entire area. .

The management of pesticide residues requires the concerted efforts of all sectors of the society. It requires the improvement of the system and the effective monitoring of relevant personnel. It also requires the detection of industrial and technical personnel, the scientific use of detection equipment for testing, and supervision. It is also necessary to conduct popular science on vegetable farmers. It is not that the more pesticides are used, the better the growth of the vegetables. In short, on the path of pesticide residue management, there is still a long way to go, but also the progress of instrumental scientific research, so that rapid inspection equipment can better meet the detection needs!