Food machinery imports need to be alert to shoddy

Food machinery imports need to be alert to shoddy

Food machinery is the carrier of direct contact with food in the food consumption chain. Its material and structure will affect the food safety and hygiene. Due to the large gap between China's food machinery industry and foreign food machinery industry, most domestic enterprises are more inclined to Introduced equipment abroad. In the first half of the year, the Xiamen Inspection and Quarantine Bureau returned a batch of old-fashioned pancake machines, which undoubtedly gave the food companies an alarm.

It is understood that the shipment was seized at Dongdu Port. It was practiced as two new and old mixed equipment, but it was declared as a pancake machine and a batch of pancake machine accessories. Imported enterprises can stop purchasing only by the pictures and depictions of the goods in the supplier's e-mail. They cannot control the old and new conditions of the mechanical equipment, and they do not know the definition of the imported old electromechanical products, and there are attacks when such things are caused.

After on-site inspection, there are four major problems in the food machinery: one is to refill the old, the appearance is repainted, and the practical manufacturing date of the transformer is 1991. Second, the internal parts are seriously aging. The power lines, air switches and metal parts in the distribution box have been rusted during the insurance installation. The chain, gear transmission installation, and the incoming and outgoing parts have been seriously deformed and aged. Third, the safety performance is unqualified, and the insulation resistance and withstand voltage tests cannot be tested. There is a risk of electric shock when used. Fourth, the parts that are in direct contact with the food are not provided with an effective material testing report and a safety certificate. If they are put into use, the consumed food may endanger the health of the human body.

At present, China's food machinery industry has problems such as few types of products, weak setness, thin technology development, and unstable performance. The gap with foreign food machinery industry is large. Therefore, most food consumer enterprises in China are more inclined to introduce new or used food machinery products from abroad. The introduction of foreign food machinery products has become an inevitable trend at this stage.

The inspection and quarantine department prompts the enterprise to inspect the quarantine category of food machinery marked “R” before importing food machinery equipment. The following two kinds of information should be requested from the manufacturer: the material qualification inspection report of the contact structure appearance data or the food consumption processing The certificate of conformity, if the manufacturer is unable to provide it, may also agree to issue a certification document for the safety and health project of the mechanical and electrical products by a third party agency, and provide an importer compliance statement to the inspection and quarantine department upon entry.