China Food Safety Network News: With people's increasing pursuit of healthy diet, the market demand for bird's nest, as a traditional nourishing product, is also rising. However, the rapid development of the industry has also brought with it the problem of standardization and normalization. On April 12, this problem ushered in a historic breakthrough - the first industry standard for "bird's nest products" was officially released in Beijing. This milestone achievement is proposed by the China Light Industry Federation, centralized by the National Food Industry Standardization Technical Committee, China Food and Fermentation Industry Research Institute Co., Ltd., China Academy of Inspection and Quarantine and other authoritative institutions and jointly formulated by a number of leading enterprises in the bird's nest industry The industry standard for "Bird's Nest Products" (QB/T 5916-2023) will be officially implemented on July 1, 2024. As one of the standard drafting units, Xiaoxian Stew was invited to participate in the meeting and witnessed this blockbuster release with industry colleagues.
The release of the industry standard of "Bird's Nest Products" marks that bird's nest products have been unified and standardized, and provides clear guidance for regulatory authorities, enterprises, industry practitioners and consumers, which is another important milestone in the standardization of the industry.
The industry standard of "Bird's Nest Products" was officially released Image source: Xiaoxian stew
Announcement of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (No. 38 of 2023) announced the approval of the industry standard for "Bird's Nest Products" Image source: Xiaoxian Stew
As the pioneer of the freshly stewed bird's nest category, Xiaoxian Stew has innovated the freshly stewed process and patented the invention of stewing equipment, etc., and has a lot of experience in the raw materials, process research, scientific research, and standardization construction of bird's nest. This participation in the formulation of industry standards has fully contributed its wisdom to the high-quality development of the industry and effectively promoted the further development of industry standardization.
For a long time, as the head brand of the bird's nest industry, Xiaoxian Stew has actively promoted the construction of industry standardization, and carried out the industrial chain layout with the "Xiaoxian Stew Standard" as the core, driving the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream of the entire industrial chain, and striving to achieve "standard leading, industrial chain leverage", and boosting the standardization and standardization of the industry.
As the pioneer of the freshly stewed bird's nest category, Xiaoxian Stew established a freshly stewed bird's nest factory in 2019 and obtained the first freshly stewed bird's nest convenience food production license, and since then there has been an independent production standard for freshly stewed bird's nest. In the same year, Xiaoxian Stew also announced 5 standards for freshly stewed bird's nest, providing a demonstration and standard for the standardized production of freshly stewed bird's nest industry. Previously, Xiaoxian Stew has led authoritative institutions, well-known universities, upstream and downstream partners in the industry and leading enterprises in the industry to jointly formulate and release a full set of group standards for freshly stewed bird's nest from product production to product quality, contributing the advanced experience of Xiaoxian Stew to the industry.
In 2021, the group standard of "Good Manufacturing Practices for Freshly Stewed Bird's Nest" led by Xiaoxian Stew was officially released Image source: Xiaoxian Stew
In 2021, Xiaoxian Stew successively cooperated with the China Food Industry Association and the China Association for the Promotion of Industry-University-Research Cooperation to release the group standards of "Good Manufacturing Practices for Freshly Stewed Bird's Nest" and "Quality Requirements for Freshly Stewed Bird's Nest". Among them, the group standard of "Good Manufacturing Practices for Freshly Stewed Bird's Nest" is the three parts of raw bird's nest management, production and processing, storage and transportation management, and takes the lead in strictly regulating the key links in the whole chain of freshly stewed bird's nest production, and on the basis of the national food safety standard "General Hygienic Specifications for Food Production" (GB14881-2013), it more clearly highlights the production process and special requirements of quality management of freshly stewed bird's nest. The "Quality Requirements for Freshly Stewed Bird's Nest" (T/CNFIA 130-2021) group standard integrates the resources of government, industry, academia, research and enterprises to build a multi-dimensional and multi-technical quality evaluation system for freshly stewed bird's nest, and forms a good complement to the "Good Manufacturing Practices for Freshly Stewed Bird's Nest" to build a complete standard system, which is conducive to the improvement of the nutritional quality of freshly stewed bird's nest and will effectively promote the innovation and high-quality development of the freshly stewed bird's nest industry.
With the official release of the first industry standard for bird's nest products, Xiaoxian Stew, as one of the drafting units, has further demonstrated its professional strength and industry influence. As a leading enterprise in the bird's nest industry, Xiaoxian Stew is not only committed to providing consumers with high-quality bird's nest products, but also plays an active role in promoting the standardization and normalization of the industry. The release of this standard marks that the bird's nest industry has entered a new era of standardization and standardization, which will provide strong support for the healthy development of the industry. Xiaoxian Stew will continue to uphold its original intention, adhere to quality, continue to innovate, and work together with other enterprises in the industry to promote the sustained, stable and healthy development of the bird's nest industry, and bring more high-quality, safe and healthy bird's nest products to consumers.