On May 13, 2024, the "Grading Global Production Areas and Setting Standards for Quality Bird's Nest" and "Bird's Nest Origin Classification" standard conference hosted by the National Federation of Urban Agricultural Trade Centers and undertaken by Beijing Xiaoxian Stew Biotechnology Co., Ltd. was successfully held in Beijing. This standard is not only the world's first bird's nest origin grading standard, but also the first consensus standard for the bird's nest industry in five countries, and another important milestone in the high-quality development of the bird's nest industry after the traceability code and the innovation of the freshly stewed bird's nest category.
The standard of "Classification of Bird's Nest Origin" was released
Deeply cultivate the origin, bird's nest and craftsmanship to create a new era of high-quality bird's nest
The "Bird's Nest Origin Classification" standard divides the influencing factors of the origin into production areas and bird's nest houses. Dr. Wang Dongliang, Chief Scientific Officer of Xiaoxian Stewed Bird's Nest, said, "Only with high-quality origin and high-quality bird's nest house can there be high-quality bird's nest raw materials".
The production area determines the quality of the living environment of swiftlets. In the table of "Classification of Bird's Nest Origins", according to seven indicators such as climate, temperature, rainfall, water system, forest coverage, topography, and primitiveness, the production area is divided into four grades: super-grade production area, first-class production area, high-quality production area and regional production area.
Dr. Wang Dongliang, Chief Scientific Officer of Xiaoxian Stewed Bird's Nest
The swiftlet house is closely related to the living environment of the swiftlet. Each swiftlet house is a complete circular ecosystem with a high technological content. According to the dimensions of site selection, construction, daily management and picking, the standard divides swiftlet houses into special swiftlet houses, first-class swiftlet houses, second-class swiftlet houses, and third-grade swiftlet houses.
Bird's nest origin classification index
Promote industry standardization and jointly build a new pattern of bird's nest industry development
The formulation of the standard of "Classification of Origin of Bird's Nest" is itself a very challenging scientific and technological problem, involving a variety of disciplines and requiring a very high scientific research background. At the same time, the formulation of standards involves the cooperation between multinational institutions, experts and enterprises.
Miao Shu, chairman and CEO of Xiaoxian Stewed Bird's Nest, said at the press conference that the reason why so much energy and resources are spent to promote the establishment of this standard is also due to the original intention of the brand of "allowing consumers to easily and intuitively identify high-quality bird's nest and promote the high-quality development of the bird's nest industry".
Only high standards can lead to high quality. Xiaoxian Stew continues to accumulate industry experience, and has participated in the formulation of many standards such as "Good Manufacturing Practices for Freshly Stewed Bird's Nest", "Quality Requirements for Freshly Stewed Bird's Nest", "Bird's Nest Products", etc., and continuously promotes the development of industry standardization with practical actions.
Xiaoxian stewed bird's nest chairman and CEO Miao Shu
The road of high-quality development of the bird's nest industry is not only a standard road, but also a road of science and technology. Through the integration of advanced scientific research forces at home and abroad, Xiaoxian Stew introduces outstanding scholars from industry, academia and research to jointly explore the field of bird's nest scientific research, and conducts research on raw materials, processing technology, product efficacy and other aspects around the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, so as to create high-quality bird's nest products with solid scientific background.
Source: China.com Food