Beijing Municipal Institute of Nutrition Sources Cooperate with Formulated Foods

In recent years, scientific research has shown that nutrients absorbed by intestinal tract are more conducive to disease recovery. This kind of food is called special medical formula food in China (hereinafter referred to as special medical food). Compared with the daily diet, this kind of food after pretreatment has the characteristics of easy digestion, good absorption, high nutrient density and balanced nutrition.

Although the concept of specialty medicine food is not unfamiliar to most professionals, it is still a new thing in China. Relevant laws and regulations are constantly updated and revised, and more and more enterprises are looking forward to specialty medicine market and investing in specialty medicine R&D and registration. However, from 2010 to the publication of the national standard of special medical food, only 24 special medical products have been registered through examination and approval in our country, which shows that the requirements of this kind of food are high and the technology is difficult.

At the sub-forum of the International Conference on Food Safety and Health, Food and Nutrition Health Forum-Special Medical Food and Healthy Food Industry, in 2019, Liu Lulu, a researcher from the Research and Development Center of Special Dietary Food, Beijing Institute of Nutritional Sources, made a report on "Key Technologies of Processing Liquid Food for Special Medical Purposes". Liu Lun emphasized that Doctor's food processing technology is an integrated technology, not a new one. Special medical food is a strictly regulated formula food. It is a technical difficulty to produce and process products in accordance with regulations within the framework of regulations. Steady-state technology of liquid total nutrition products is a difficult point in special medical food technology.

Beijing Institute of Nutrition Sources was founded in 1977. It belongs to Beijing Institute of Science and Technology. It is a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive applied technology research institute focusing on nutritional resources and human health. It is also a municipal-level "Systematic Nutrition Engineering Technology Research Center" in Beijing. At present, Beijing Institute of Nutrition Sources has six research platforms, which belong to six different research directions. It strives to become the first-class professional research institute of systematic nutrition and the training base of innovative talents in systematic nutrition science and technology in China.

According to the current situation of industry development demand, Beijing Institute of Nutrition Sources took the lead in the research and development of special medical food. In 2011, a special dietary food research and development center (hereinafter referred to as special dietary food center) was established. Based on theoretical research, technical research, regulatory standards and equipment, the research and development center carried out systematic integration and tackled key problems, focusing on market transformation. Over the past few years, special medical food laws and regulations and equipment have been established. A lot of research work has been done on formulation, raw materials, process technology, production and registration.

Special Food Center currently has more than ten doctoral and master's professional R&D personnel, and has invested more than 10 million yuan in R&D equipment and facilities. Over the past few years, in the field of special medicine, we have undertaken many scientific research projects, such as Beijing Science and Technology Commission, Beijing Natural Fund, Shandong Key Research and Development Project, Danone Fund and so on. We have established the Foods for Special Medical Purpose (FSMP) regulatory database and product database. At the same time, the special diet center has cooperated with many enterprises to develop more than ten kinds of special medical food, including full nutrition formula food, electrolyte formula, fluid formula, protein components, fat components and other directions. It has greatly promoted the development of technology and industry of special medical products.