Breakout Session F:
Topic: “China’s Early Warning System for High Risk Foods”
Speaker: Ma Zhiying, Vice Director & Engineer, Shanghai Food Research Institute

Abstract
It is very important food safety guarantee that establishes a suitable food safety precautionary system and improves the competences of defending and controlling food-borne hazards. In recent years there have been many development: EC General Food Law-precautionary principle; and rapid alter system for food (RAS); China research on the precautionary system for import and export food.

As an international city and the host of Expo 2010, Shanghai will be international gathering, and food safety precaution system should be used to enhance protection of citizen’s health and minimize the incidence of food-borne hazards. The practical application in Shanghai of research on the food precautionary technology will be discussed during the speech.

Biography
Mr. Ma Zhiying, born in 1949, is the Vice Director and Chief Engineer of Shanghai Food Research Institute and Secretary General of Branch of Food Safety, Shanghai Society of Food Science.

Since he graduated from East China Chemical Institute in 1982, Mr. Ma has been engaged in scientific research of food engineering, food chemistry, food packaging and freshness and food safety. His main research scope includes food safety, food processing technique, food biochemical engineering, food packaging and freshness, fine processing of agricultural products and comprehensive usage technology. He successfully finished over ten R&D projects, such as study on alerting highly dangerous food in Shanghai area and processing control technology, research of key technologies for kitchen food industrialization and pilot application, application of barrier technology on Chinese-style meat and poultry products, study on quality control of packaged cooked food circulated in low temperature and others. He won one national prize of scientific and technological breakthrough in 1995, two secondary prizes and two third-level prizes of commercial technological progress of the country. He was also awarded one third-level prize of scientific and technological progress of Shanghai Municipality. Now he is in charge of three development projects of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Committee. Many of his research results are applied extensively in the country, over 100 million yuan profits are achieved by the enterprises which apply his research achievements. He also published more than 40 papers on domestic and overseas major publications.

Mr. Ma has been named a model worker for three years in succession by the government of Shanghai Municipality and Ministry of Human Resources. He was also awarded a title of an advanced worker by the Ministry of Internal Commerce.<back>