Green food refers to edible agricultural products and processed products produced in excellent environments, produced in accordance with prescribed technical specifications, implemented full-scale quality control, no pollution, safety, and high quality, and use special signs. The packaging of green food is an important part of guaranteeing the quality of green food. The characteristics and development concept of green food also require that green food must adopt green packaging. According to the requirements of the green food standard, the external packaging of green food must comply with the general standard of the national food label and comply with the specific packaging, decoration and labeling regulations for green food.
Green Food Development Brings Green Packaging Opportunities
My country began to develop green food in 1990. After more than ten years of development, the China Green Food Development Center has now commissioned 42 local management agencies nationwide, commissioned 60 environmental monitoring agencies for green food production sites and 27 green food product quality inspection agencies. At present, there are a total of 79 green food industry standards issued by the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1996, the China Green Food Development Center promulgated the "Administrative Measures on the Labeling of Green Food Products," marking that China's green food development and management has entered the legal and standardized track.
For more than a decade, China's green food industry has been able to make rapid progress. As of December 2006, the total number of enterprises using green food products in China effectively reached 4,615, and the total number of products reached 12,868. The total amount of physical goods exceeds 72 million tons, annual sales of products exceeds 150 billion yuan, exports amount to nearly 2 billion US dollars, and the monitoring area of ​​production areas is 150 million mu. The qualified rate of product quality inspection reached 97.9%, and the annual inspection rate of enterprises reached 95%. In addition, China also actively promotes the certification of pollution-free agricultural products and organic foods. By the end of 2006, the total number of pollution-free agricultural products had reached 23,636, and the total number of organic food companies certified by China Green Huaxia Organic Food Certification Center reached 520, and the total number of products reached 2278. The total amount of 1.955 million tons in kind, the product annual sales of 6.19 billion yuan, exports of 110 million US dollars, the certification area of ​​46.635 million mu.
The above shows that the development of green food is an inevitable trend in our country. The rapid development of green foods, pollution-free foods and organic foods will inevitably stimulate the demand for green packaging, and bring greater development opportunities and space for green packaging companies.
Problems with green food packaging
To a certain extent, food packaging has become an integral part of food. Packaging as a food "close-fitting clothing", its safety in raw materials, accessories, and processes will directly affect the quality of food, and then have an impact on human health.
At present, most of the materials used to package foods are plastic products. Under certain media environment and temperature conditions, the polymer monomers and some additives in plastics will be dissolved out and transferred to foods in a very small amount, resulting in human health. Hidden danger. In recent years, due to the high residue of hazardous substances in food packaging, food poisoning has caused frequent incidents, which has created many unfavorable factors in creating a harmonious society. According to the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) inspection of food packaging, containers, tools and other product manufacturing enterprises, plastic product companies account for more than half of the total; paper product companies account for about 20% of the total. It appears that the safety of food packaging has a closer relationship with plastic packaging companies.
I personally think that if green foods can be given guidance requirements in line with international standards, it may reduce some of the import and export trade disputes, improve the brand influence and market competitiveness of China's green food. It should be said that the vast majority of green food enterprises attach great importance to food packaging, especially those export-oriented production and processing enterprises and bag-opening ready-to-eat products companies, attach great importance to the quality of the product packaging, they can not accept that because of the packaging resulting in reduced food quality or Deterioration brings losses that are not worth the loss. However, there are also some green food companies in the market that do not pay enough attention to packaging, especially those who run primary agricultural products such as vegetables, consider cost factors and reduce the level of packaging safety. For example, people usually reflect on the green fruits and vegetables in supermarkets, use disposable foam plastic foam nets, trays, use transparent plastic packaging film or PVC plastic packaging bags, plastic packaging products, plasticizers and anti-aging Excessive use of agents in excess, use of brighteners in paper-packed foods, unsafe use of packaging inks, and excessive lead in tin foil packaging.
How Packaging Companies Deal with Green Trends
For food packaging companies, in order to gain a place in the green food packaging or to expand market share, in addition to in-depth work on the cost of cost, but also need to increase publicity efforts to cultivate people's environmental awareness, health consumption concepts and consumption habits . At the same time, companies should also provide innovative technical support for food packaging in terms of functional security, personalization, and humanity. For example, the large-caliber drink bottles of farmers' orchards and the packaging of some straw-type bee products have brought huge win-win results for food companies and packaging companies.
In recent years, China's green food and organic food have developed rapidly. The total volume of green food products is growing at a rate of about 30% per year, and the annual growth rate of export trade is even more than 50%. Faced with such rapid development of green food, its packaging green and environmental protection have not kept pace, and food flexible packaging has become prominent. As a result, most of the products used in this part of the packaging have failed to participate in international competition due to packaging materials that do not meet international standards. The share that should be on the international market. Actively launching green packaging new technologies, new materials, and new technologies to meet this kind of green food packaging will bring greater market share and benefits to the company.
At present, biodegradable food packaging bags developed with starch as the main raw material have been put on the market. Packaging films made of low-density polyethylene as the main raw material and filled with specially processed corn starch and other auxiliary materials have also been widely used in meats. , soy products and other food packaging. The current international popular "green packaging" such as edible packaging, paper packaging and bamboo packaging also require packaging companies to include research, testing and promotion to win future market.
Packaging companies should vigorously promote modern packaging technologies, such as the use of electronic color separation, electronic engraving and other advanced technology to replace the backward gravure production process, promote the use of water-based ink, water-based paint and other "green" printing materials, with chitosan edible Packaging film As a food packaging material, the corn protein packaging film is suitable for high-oil and high-permeability high-fat food packaging, as well as fast food boxes and other inner layers of oiled foods. At the same time, enterprises should actively introduce and absorb mature technologies from abroad, moderately package green foods, actively promote “minus packaging†and partial packaging, and adopt demountable, easily compressible, and foldable packaging designs.