Compared with ordinary food, green food has the following three remarkable characteristics:
1. Emphasize that products come from a good ecological environment;
2. Implement the whole quality control of products from land to dining table;
3. Implement unified identification and management of products according to law.
Conditions of green food:
1. The origin of products or raw materials must meet the eco-environmental quality standards of green food;
2. Crop planting, livestock and poultry breeding, aquaculture and food processing must conform to the operating rules for green food production;
3. Products must meet the standards of green food;
4. The packaging, storage and transportation of products must meet the standards of green food packaging and storage and transportation.
If you are a "pregnant woman" and want a healthy and intelligent child, please get close to green fruits and vegetables. Because green fruits and vegetables are rich in folic acid, and folic acid has been proved by Anglo-American eugenics to be one of the "panacea" to prevent fetal neural tube defects (such as anencephaly and spina bifida). At the same time, a large amount of folic acid is also a new killer of the heart-homocysteine "nemesis", which can effectively remove too much homocysteine from the blood and protect the heart. In addition, green vegetables are also the best source of calcium, enjoying the title of "life element", and their reserves are more than milk containing calcium and rich in minerals, so eating "green" is regarded by nutritionists as the best way to supplement calcium.
Green food covers a wide range, including all kinds of foods that grow in the ground and swim in the water, such as food on the table, vegetables, fish, eggs, fruits, oil, tea, wine, spices and so on. The production of green food should have strict operating procedures, such as planting crops in pollution-free places to protect crops from pollution; Livestock and poultry feed is not allowed to contain hormone additives harmful to human body; In factories that manufacture canned food and beverages, the processing equipment used must be free from lead and zinc pollution.
The green food logo has become a passport for China food to enter the international market, which has made great contributions to the neutrality of foreign exchange earning through export. The "green cause" brought by green food is a cause that benefits the country and the people and benefits future generations.
Green food standards are the foundation and basis of green food certification and management, and are an important technical support for the whole green food cause. It is the long-term experience summary and wisdom crystallization of all comrades engaged in green food work.
Green food standard is a technical document based on green food quality certification, which is formulated by applying scientific and technological principles, combining with green food production practice and drawing lessons from relevant standards at home and abroad.
Green food standard
Green food standard is the recommended agricultural industry standard (NY/T) issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, and it is the standard that green food production enterprises must follow.
Green food standards are divided into two technical levels, namely AA-level green food standards and A-level green food standards.
The green food standard takes the concept of "quality control from land to table" as the core and consists of the following four parts:
Environmental standard of green food producing area, namely "Environmental Technical Conditions of Green Food Producing Area" (NY/T 39 1).
Technical standard of green food production
Green food standard
Standard for packaging, storage and transportation of green food
The emergence of green food
After World War II, developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan have successively realized agricultural modernization on the basis of industrial modernization. On the one hand, it has greatly enriched the food supply in these countries, on the other hand, there have been serious problems, that is, with the continuous input of agricultural chemicals into farmland, harmful chemicals are enriched in organisms through soil and water, and enter crops and livestock and poultry through the food chain, leading to food pollution and ultimately damaging human health. It can be seen that agriculture that relies too much on chemical fertilizers and pesticides (also known as "petroleum agriculture") will do harm to the environment, resources and human health, and this harm has the characteristics of concealment, accumulation and long-term.
1962, Ms. rachel carson of the United States took the measures taken in East Lansing, Michigan to eliminate beetles that hurt elm trees as an example, and disclosed various situations in which DDT caused harm to other organisms. The city sprayed many trees with DDT. Leaves fall to the ground in autumn, and insects eat them. After coming back in spring, robins ate worms, and almost all robins in the city died a week later. In Silent Spring, Ms Carson wrote: "Pesticides are widely polluted all over the world. Chemicals have invaded the water on which everything depends, infiltrated the soil and covered plants with a harmful film ... which has caused serious harm to human body. In addition, there is a terrible legacy that may not be detected within a few years, and may even have an impact on heredity, which will not be detected for generations. " Ms Carson's assertion undoubtedly sounded the alarm for the whole world.
In the early 1970s, the ideological trend of "organic agriculture", which spread from the United States to Europe and Japan and aimed at limiting the excessive import of chemicals to protect the ecological environment and improve food safety, affected many countries. Some countries began to adopt economic measures and legal means to encourage and support the development and production of pollution-free food in their own countries. Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, many countries have started with agriculture and actively explored the sustainable development mode of agriculture to alleviate the serious pressure of petroleum agriculture on the environment and resources. Europe, America, Japan, Australia and other developed countries and some developing countries have accelerated the research on ecological agriculture. Under this international background, China decided to develop pollution-free, safe and high-quality nutritious food and named it "green food".
The emergence of green food in China has its inevitability: firstly, China is a country with a shortage of resources per capita. As a developing country, China must not take the old road of developing its economy at the expense of environment and resources. We must base economic and social development on the sustainable development of environment and resources, especially to establish and develop a mode of production to ensure the sustainable development of agriculture and food industry, and the development of green food can promote the establishment of this mode of production. Secondly, since the 1990s, the overall living standard of urban and rural people in China began to transition from the level of adequate food and clothing to a well-off level, and the awareness of environmental protection and the demand for pollution-free food became higher and higher. Green food with pollution-free, safe, high-quality and nutritious connotation can just meet the needs of the transformation of living standards of urban and rural people. Third, with the in-depth development of reform and opening up, China's agricultural products and their processed products will inevitably enter the international market and participate in international competition. The introduction of green food is conducive to enhancing the competitiveness of China agricultural products and their processed products in the international market.
Classification standard of green food
Distinguish between A-level and AA-level green approval in the process of green food declaration and approval.
AA-level green certification refers to the products that are produced and processed without any harmful chemical synthetic substances according to specific production operation procedures in the production areas where the ecological environment quality meets the specified standards, and the product quality and packaging meet the specific standards after inspection, and are approved by specialized agencies to use AA-level green certification marks.
A-grade green food refers to the products that are allowed to use limited amounts of chemical synthetic substances in the production process, are produced and processed according to specific production operation procedures, and the quality and packaging of the products meet specific marks after testing, and are approved by specialized agencies to use the A-grade green food mark.
The packaging, decoration and commodity labels of green food products shall meet the requirements of the standard manual of green food logo design. Units that have obtained the ownership of green signs shall use the green food signs for the internal and external packaging of products. The manual strictly stipulates the standard graphics, standard fonts, standardized organization of graphics and fonts, standard colors, advertising terms, standard graphics and numbering specifications of food series packaging, and lists application examples.
How do consumers identify green food? The packaging of green food products must be (1) "four in one", that is, logo graphics, "green food" words, numbers and anti-counterfeiting labels. (2) 2 [The background color of AA-level green food signs is white, and the signs and standard fonts are green; The background color of the logo of grade A green food is green, and the logo and standard font are white. (3) Immediately after or below the product number, write the words "green food mark approved by China Green Food Development Center", and its English description is "certified Chinese screen food product". (4) The packaging label of green food shall conform to the national general food label standard (GB77 18-94). The standard stipulates that the following contents must be marked on the food label: the name of the food; List of ingredients; Fine particle content and solid content; Names and addresses of manufacturers and sellers; Date mark (production date, shelf life) and storage guide; Quality (quality grade); Product standard number; Special labeling content.
Green food mark is a quality certification mark officially registered by China Green Food Development Center in the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
The green food sign consists of three parts, namely, the upper sun, the lower leaves and the central bud. The sign is round, indicating protection. The whole figure depicts the harmonious life in the bright sunshine, telling people that green food is safe and pollution-free food from a pure and good ecological environment, which can bring people vigorous vitality. Green food signs also remind people to protect the environment and create new natural harmony by improving the relationship between people and the environment.
As a specific product quality certification trademark, the green food mark's exclusive right is protected by the Trademark Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).