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The China Condiment Association and Lotus Holdings jointly hosted the 2025 National Food Quality and Safety Conference for the Condiment Industry

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2025-06-27

Source: Comprehensive report from the China Condiment Association

On June 26, 2025, the 2025 National Food Quality and Safety Conference for the Condiment Industry was held in Chengdu. This conference was hosted by the China Condiment Association, with Lianhua Holdings Co., Ltd. as a co-host.

Gong Guoqiang, Deputy Director-General of the Food Safety Standards and Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the National Health Commission; Wang Fengzhong, Director and Researcher of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Bai Yan, President of the China Condiment Association; Li Bin, Vice Chairman and CEO of Lianhua Holdings Co., Ltd.; and over 300 professionals from government departments, local associations, research institutes, universities, and news media attended the conference.

Bai Yan, President of the China Condiment Association, attended the conference and delivered a speech. She mentioned that in 2025, various national departments issued a series of regulations, policies, and standard documents on food safety and quality, covering the entire chain of food safety supervision, comprehensive governance of the abuse of food additives, the formulation and revision of national food safety standards, food labeling management, consumption environment optimization, standardized management of online trading platforms, supervision and management of live e-commerce, and other aspects. Among them, the "National Food Safety Standard General Rules for Prepackaged Food Labels (GB7718-2025)" stipulates that terms such as "no added," "no use of," "no contains," and their synonyms cannot be used to promote or introduce products.

The above-mentioned series of measures highlight the country's high attention to food quality and safety. In terms of the condiment industry, while ensuring quality and safety, industrial development has also been relatively stable. According to the data statistics of the top 100 Chinese condiment enterprises in 2024 (100 companies), the total production of the top 100 enterprises was 16.457 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.0%; sales revenue was 136.03 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%; and net profit increased by 8% year-on-year. The results of various food supervision inspections in the third quarter of 2024 by the State Administration for Market Regulation showed that the unqualified rate of food supervision inspections was 2.95%, of which the unqualified rate of condiments was 1.52%, lower than the overall unqualified rate of food inspections.

China has numerous condiment categories, with a wide variety of products and rapid iteration. The national standard "Condiment Classification" (GB/T20903-2007) covers 17 major categories of products, including Chinese and Western styles, national and regional, single and compound, and traditional brewing and modern processes. The rich variety of products, coupled with the rapid changes in consumption channels and the innovative development of the catering and food processing industries, has put forward new requirements and directions for food safety supervision and quality management in the condiment industry.

The association will continue to actively cooperate with relevant national departments in carrying out food quality and safety management work in the condiment industry, actively guide industry production enterprises to implement their main responsibilities, strictly control various links such as production, circulation, and consumption, and build a solid foundation for food safety.

Li Bin, Vice Chairman and CEO of Lianhua Holdings Co., Ltd., said in his speech: Food quality and safety is a people's livelihood project and a people's heart project. The condiment industry holds a unique position in the entire food industry; its quality and safety are related to the health and quality of life of thousands of households, and are the main foundation and lifeline of the industry's existence and development. For 42 years, Lianhua Holdings has always adhered to the mission of "serving the healthy and delicious life of mankind" and insisted on the production and operation philosophy of "safety first, quality first," regarding food safety and product quality as the foundation of the enterprise's existence. It has built a strict quality control system that is "full chain, full process, full employee, and full cycle," strengthening full-chain technological empowerment and focusing on source traceability, precise control, and supply chain guarantees to ensure quality and safety levels and product quality.

[Letter of Appeal and Publicity Week Launch]

The conference issued the "Appeal Letter for the Condiment Industry to Regulate the Use of Food Additives and Standardize Product Labels" and launched the 2025 National Condiment Industry Science Popularization Publicity Week.

[Policy Interpretation]

Gong Guoqiang, Deputy Director-General of the Food Safety Standards and Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the National Health Commission, gave an interpretation of relevant policies on food quality and safety. The main content includes: building a "most rigorous standard system" around the entire chain of supervision; striving to build a food safety monitoring and evaluation system that is accurate and efficient in monitoring and scientifically authoritative in evaluation; coordinating the promotion of the National Nutrition Plan and the Healthy China Reasonable Diet Action; and fully promoting the application of digital food labels to effectively improve the public's label reading experience and the ability of enterprises to convey food information.

[Keynote Report]

Wang Fengzhong, Director and Researcher of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, shared content on flavor analysis and standard reconstruction, and the practice of the dual-health strategy, under the title of "Sour Soup Breakthrough Leading a New Path for Condiment Technological Development."

Zhong Kai, Director and Research Librarian of the Kexin Food and Health Information Exchange Center, shared the deep logic of public opinion crises under the title of "Food Enterprise Public Opinion and Crisis Management."

[Standard Interpretation]

Zhang Jianbo, Director of the Third Department of Standards at the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, gave an interpretation of the "National Food Safety Standard Food Additive Use Standard" (GB 2760-2024); Zhu Lei, Director of the Standards Center at the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, gave an interpretation of the "National Food Safety Standard General Rules for Prepackaged Food Labels" (GB 7718-2025); and Deng Taotao, researcher at the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, gave an interpretation of the "National Food Safety Standard General Rules for Prepackaged Food Nutrition Labels" (GB 28050-2025).

Chen Daiwei, Deputy Director of the Chengdu Food Inspection Institute, introduced the revision of the "National Food Safety Standard Compound Seasoning" (GB 31644).

He Xiaoqian, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Condiment Association, introduced the progress of national standards, industry standards, and group standards of the China Condiment Association in the condiment field.

[Experience Sharing]

Zhang Guoqing, General Manager of Lianhua Holdings R&D and Quality Control Center; Zhang Min, General Manager of Chengdu Sheng'en Biotechnology Co., Ltd.; Chen Zhong, Vice President of Quality Management of Lee Kum Kee (Xinhui) Food Co., Ltd.; Chi Yuanlong, Vice Dean and Professor of the School of Light Industry Science and Engineering, Sichuan University; and Tang Jie, Dean and Professor of the School of Food and Bioengineering, Xihua University, respectively shared their experiences under the titles of "Building a Solid Safety Defense Line, Sharing a Quality Future, and Helping the High-Quality Development of the Condiment Industry," "Integrity as the Foundation, Responsibility as the Base: The Safety Mission of the Food Industry," "Food Safety Management of Agricultural Products in Condiments," "Formation Mechanism and Reduction Strategies of Biogenic Amines in Traditional Fermented Condiments," and "Mining and Metabolic Regulation of Functional Microbial Resources in the Fermentation Process of Pixian Douban."

The conference, adhering to the principles of policy interpretation, forward-looking guidance, standard discussion, and experience sharing, played the role of a bridge and link between the government and enterprises, promoting the food safety management and high-quality development of China's condiment industry.

Gong Guoqiang, Deputy Director-General of the Food Safety Standards and Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the National Health Commission; Wang Fengzhong, Director of the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; and Bai Yan, President of the China Condiment Association, visited the Lianhua booth for guidance.

Person Interview: How can condiment companies do a good job in quality and safety?

Tang Xinyu, Chief Digital Marketing Officer of Lianhua Holdings Co., Ltd.:

Food safety is of utmost importance. Food companies are not ordinary market entities, especially leading companies, which play a leading and exemplary role in serving the food health and quality safety of the vast number of consumers. They must regard safeguarding product quality and safety as their belief and the foundation of their survival, ensuring that every product provided to consumers is safe and reliable, thus winning consumer trust.

Lianhua Holdings has always actively and deeply participated in the formulation and improvement of industry standards. We understand that unified and strict industry standards are an important fundamental guide for regulating market order and ensuring product quality and safety. Based on our rich experience and technological advantages in the industry, we will actively contribute suggestions and advice to the formulation of industry standards, contributing more wisdom to promote the standardized and regulated development of the condiment industry.

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