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Foodmate News — Recently, the Shanxi Provincial Administration for Market Regulation issued a notice on the food safety supervision and sampling inspection for 2026 No. 11, organizing sampling inspections of 625 batches of samples in 28 major categories and detecting 15 batches of substandard food. 1 batch of food was found to have a microbial contamination problem 1 batch of food was found to have a microbial contamination problem, namely the Hawthorn Xiongqu Stick (strawberry flavor) sold by Yangquan Kaitong New Life Trading Co., Ltd. and nominally produced by Shenyang Shanshan Weiye Food Co., Ltd.

On October 26-27, the consultation seminar on the national standard "General Technical Specification for Automatic Packaging Quality Inspection Machines for Bottled Oral Liquid", hosted by the National Packaging Machinery Standardization Technical Committee and organized by Guangzhou Famajia Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., was successfully held in Xiamen. More than 40 experts and representatives from Guangzhou Famajia Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., Hefei General Machinery Research Institute Co., Ltd., South China University of Technology, the Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing of Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Shandong Mingjia Technology Co., Ltd

A finished milk carton is washed, flattened, dropped into the recycling bin, and then goes to a sorting center and a reprocessing plant, where it becomes pulp, plastic and aluminum powder, or hot-pressed board and extruded board, and ultimately notebooks, desks and chairs, trash bins and signboards. This chain has been made to work over five years. According to a report in the 15th issue of the weekly Green Development, in 2020 the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments issued the Implementation Plan for the Extended Producer Responsibility System for Beverage Paper-Based Composite Packaging, China's first specific product

Food Machinery and Equipment Network (foodjx.com) has launched 100 vertical sub-sites across 17 major categories in one go, all built on independent second-level domains. From chillers to cookware, every specific category now has its own domain and gateway. I. Why build sub-sites Categories are too fine to fit into one major category. Drying alone includes belt, flash, granulation, box and oven routes, with completely different material characteristics and capacity rhythms; in packaging alone,

Foodmate News: Recently, the Anhui Provincial Administration for Market Regulation issued the 2026 No. 34 food safety sampling inspection information notice, organizing sampling inspections of 427 batches of samples from 24 food categories, and 11 batches of non-compliant foods were detected. 3 batches of food were found to have microbial contamination problems 3 batches of food were found to have microbial contamination problems, namely: kale powder sold by Zhanjiang Fudi Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. on Pinduoduo (mobile App), labeled manufacturer name: Anhui Bencao Yitang

Imported Soy Sauce Selling Hot Online Turns Out to Be Fake Made from Blended Seasoning Sauce Recently, the Shanghai Railway Transport Court heard a case involving the production and sale of counterfeit and inferior soy sauce and oil products. Ma, Li, Wang, Si and others formed multiple counterfeiting chains: they purchased compound seasoning sauce, customized packaging bearing the Japanese “萬” trademark, filled it to pass off as brand-name soy sauce for online sale, and also disguised ordinary soybean oil as flaxseed oil and olive oil for sale, with total sales exceeding 400,000 yuan. Upon appraisal, the products involved

On October 27, the Shandong Provincial Health Commission held a press conference, announcing the promotion and application of food digital labels across the province. Consumers will be able to scan the QR code on food packaging to see the ingredient list, nutritional information, and allergen warnings, and even access voice broadcasts and video explanations. From policy text to on-the-ground promotion, food digital labels are moving from an "optional item" to a "required question." Food digital labels did not appear out of thin air. This year's implementation of the "National Food Safety Stand

On September 18, the Department of Industry and Information Technology of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region issued the Sugar Industry Development Action Plan (2025–2027) (Gui Gong Xin Food [2025] No. 767), specifying that by 2027 the industrial output value of the sugar industry chain will strive to reach RMB 81 billion. As the country's main sugar-producing region, Guangxi has locked in a batch of equipment renewal directions in the form of a policy list, opening up market space for enterprises in sugar-making main equipment, harvesting machinery, deep processing and green energy-saving equipment.

China's food industry is large in scale and developing rapidly, and behind it stands a group of food machinery industrial clusters, each with its own characteristics. They are distributed along industrial belts and in the hinterlands of the food industry, forming a pattern of "blooming at multiple points." Zhucheng, Shandong: a "major hub" of the food machinery industry. Zhucheng is an important gathering place for food processing equipment in China, with products covering meat and poultry slaughtering and cutting, tumbling and bowl chopping, cooking and sterilization, and many other categories, capable of supplying equipment for multiple stages of food factory needs, with a well-developed industrial chain, and sterilization

Inquiry Content For pre-packaged food in multi-layer packaging, the production date shall be the date on which the packaging process that comes into direct contact with the food (i.e., the inner packaging) is completed. If the inner packaging contains multiple products of different varieties, different production dates, and different shelf lives, and only one production date is marked on the outer packaging, should the earliest production date or the packaging date be indicated? If all shelf lives are more than 6 months, and the outer packaging does not indicate a production date but only indicates the shelf life and the shelf-life expiry date,