News Update of This Week and Sugar Substitutes Information

On March 14, the website of the National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment released news that arabinoxylan, a declared new food ingredient, had passed the technical review of the expert review committee and was now open for comments.

According to the information, arabinoxylan is a water-insoluble polysaccharide made from sugarcane bagasse, wheat bran, corn husk and other grassy plants, after pretreatment, edible alkali extraction, dealkalization and concentration, neutralization and precipitation, washing and purification, drying and other processes.

This raw material is mainly used as one of the sources of dietary fibre.

Summary of the hot topics of the two sessions in 2022 a food safety and food security

The two national conferences in 2022, namely the Fifth Session of the 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China and the Fifth Session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, were held in Beijing on March 5 and March 4, respectively, and closed on March 11 and March 10. At the meeting, all the delegates and members expressed their views and strove for a new journey.

Food Partner Network combed through the representatives, members of the proposal found that food safety, food security and other hot topics are still two sessions this year.

Import and export of dairy industry in 2021

In 2021, China imported a total of 3,897,300 tons of various dairy products, an increase of 18.8% year-on-year; the import value was US$13.357 billion, an increase of 14.0% year-on-year.

Among them, 2.612 million tonnes of dry dairy products, an increase of 17.7% year-on-year, with an import value of US$11.488 billion, an increase of 11.0% year-on-year; 1.2961 million tonnes of liquid milk, an increase of 20.9% year-on-year, with an import value of US$1.869 billion, an increase of 36.7% year-on-year.

2021, the cumulative export of all types of dairy products was 44,833.92 tonnes, an increase of 4.4% year-on-year, with an export value of 302,622,400 USD, an increase of 37.5% year-on-year.