Market confusion: Spirulina suffers from a crisis of confidence

In recent years, some Kunming media have published large advertisements for spirulina products, and some have used the form of news to boast about the health effects of spirulina. Every day, information about spirulina is transmitted. With regard to various true and false information on spirulina, consumers are confused and confused.

Walking through the streets of Kunming, various spirulina products produced by various companies can be described as dazzling and eye-catching. During the "two sessions" of the province, the NPC deputies and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, in the form of "people's congressional bills" and "proposals of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference," reflected the problems related to Spirulina in the Chenghai Lake of Lijiang Yongsheng, and put forward some opinions and suggestions.

Spirulina can not eat? What kind of spirulina products can be assured to eat? This has become the issue that consumers are most concerned about. Responsible for the consumers and responsible for the company, when the reporter took more than one month to investigate various aspects of spirulina, he discovered that the products of spirulina in our province were varied and mixed, and the entire Spirulina market in Yunnan was showing all kinds of rumors and unorderliness. Competition, even vicious competition.

Businesses compete for food "Tang Yu meat"

Since the State determined the development of the Spirulina Industry Project in 1986, the development of Spirulina in China has been extremely rapid.

In 1990, the spirulina plants in various parts of the country sprang up like mushrooms. Through the efforts of the business community, the selection of algae strains for spirulina, the development of culture fluids, the application of spirulina, and deep processing, etc. have all become possible. Greatly improved. According to incomplete statistics from the relevant departments, as of November 1995, there were more than 80 manufacturers in China, and the cultivation pool area was more than 1 million square meters. The annual output of alga powder was estimated to be about 800 tons, and the listed processed product brands increased to 20 Many varieties of processed products are also increasing. Apart from algae chips and capsules, there are also food spoils such as spirulina nutrition blocks, energy blocks, and spirulina chocolates, as well as health foods such as slimming, detoxification, and enhancement of immunity. Started selling on the market. At the same time, nutritious foods, cosmetics, and other products to which Spirulina active substances have been added have been marketed.

As far as Yunnan is concerned, in the early 1990s, the company Sperry, which pioneered the development of spirulina, set up a research, development, and breeding experimental base in Chenghai Lake, Yongcheng, Lijiang. However, in 2005, Yunnan Green A Bio-engineering Co., Ltd., which was invested solely by Shipray, had an area of ​​420,000 square meters for Spirulina cultivation, plus a total of 250,000 breeding bases such as Lanbao, Hongyuan, Yunhai and Chengchao. With an area of ​​around 2 square meters, the Chenghai Lake District in Yunnan Yongsheng has become the world's largest production and breeding base for spirulina.

China's Spirulina factory is not only widely distributed but also of many types: the base of the Plateau Soda Lake is only the Chenghai Lake of Yongsheng County, Lijiang, Yunnan Province. Since 1989, it has built China's first 3,000 m2 pilot base on the banks of Chenghai Lake. Since then, it has been expanded to more than 600,000 square meters of spirulina plants; southern coastal high-temperature and high-heat type, mainly distributed in Hainan, Guangdong, Shenzhen and other provinces and cities, which is China's largest base, one of the largest type; the use of geothermal The temperature-controlled, semi-closed loop cultivation system is mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River basin area in China. Wuhan has built such factories; high-altitude saline-alkaline groundwater types are mainly concentrated in the Yellow River Basin in China, and Gucheng County, Hebei Province and other places have already produced. factory.

Due to its wide range of applications, Spirulina includes food, feed, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and health products. In 1985, the true value of Spirulina was researched by experts. It was considered to be the oldest non-nuclear single-celled plant on the earth. It is the most nutritious natural green food on the planet, with a protein content as high as 60%, including 18 The amino acids, 10 kinds of vitamins, 6 kinds of minerals indispensable to the human body, as well as a variety of physiologically active substances, food can improve the body's metabolism, enhance immune function, to achieve the effect of disease resistance and physical fatigue. Therefore, Spirulina has become a modern and truly "Tangrou meat." Due to the continuous increase in market demand, the situation in which all businesses compete for “Tang Yao’s flesh” is also rapidly formed. In the words of a domestic spirulina expert, the spiral of Chinese Spirulina market has reached an extreme point. The relevant departments should indeed come forward to rectify and rectify, or they will have trouble.

Due to its unique geographical environment and natural conditions, Chenghai Lake of Yongsheng Lake has naturally superior spirulina quality. Therefore, Spirulina experts are unanimously considered to be one of the world’s three basic freshwater lakes and the only natural spirulina in the country. Production base. In recent years, through the efforts of Yunnan Spirulina enterprises, the quality of spirulina produced has been far ahead in China. With the media's extensive publicity, Spirulina produced by Chenghai Lake and the region has been widely known. As a result, Yunnan's Spirulina business suffered a great deal in the war that raged for the "Tang Yao Rouo," because some unscrupulous companies inside and outside the province took the opportunity to play the "Cheng Hai" brand to confuse and injure consumers.

Facing the chaotic market and fierce competition in spiral algae, some experts believe that the industrialization of spiral algae production in our country lacks standardized management, product quality is unstable, market supervision mechanism is not perfect, standards are not uniform, and so on. Therefore, it is not surprising that products such as medicines, health products, foods, feeds, etc. with spirulina make consumers feel confused and confused.

"Blue hat" can wear in disorder

Today's Kunming, casually entering a chain pharmacy, you can at least see more than three spirulina products, which are mostly health food and ordinary food. According to a cursory statistic, the number of similar products has reached more than 40 kinds, which come from different manufacturers and sales companies, but the vast majority are under the banner of "Cheng Hai".

However, the reporter learned from the Consumer Association that some consumers had purchased the "xx Spirulina" brand. After taking it, they not only failed to keep fit, but also vomited, shed, and lost their hair. At the end of last year, Kunming’s health supervision department investigated a spirulina production enterprise. In a workshop site with extremely poor sanitary conditions, it even used chemical fertilizer bags to hold the spirulina powder and wrote it on the product’s promotional materials and packaging. With the words "Cheng Hai" and "Efficacy".

From the complaint records of the Consumer Association, it can be seen that complaints about Spirulina are increasing, of which only a very small number of companies can really make no complaints. What are the reasons? Experts said that Spirulina is a very good thing, but due to its complex biological characteristics, production control requirements are very strict and require a large investment to meet the requirements of qualified production hardware. If the enterprises in the production process process control and quality monitoring is not strict, production operations are not standardized, software and hardware can not meet the requirements, the quality of produced spirulina is not only not guaranteed, but may endanger the health of consumers.

In response to the consumer's reaction, the reporter freely extracted Yunnan Green A Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., Greenstone Biological Co., Ltd., Tiantian Spirulina Co., Ltd., Chenghai Spirulina Breeding Base, Xinshengdao Biological Co., Ltd. Zhenguang Spirulina, Naito Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Xiangtai Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Yunluo Biological Co., Ltd., Blue Chenghai Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., Weikun Technology Co., Ltd., Salai Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and Kunming Environmental Protection More than 20 companies and production companies such as Technology Equipment Co., Ltd. conducted interviews.

General Manager Yang Zhihong of Yunnan Green A Biological Engineering Co., Ltd. said in an interview: “We have an obligation to let consumers understand, recognize and use spirulina products.”

Mr. Yang introduced that Green A Biological Engineering Co., Ltd. was established in 1997 and is the earliest enterprise for the research and development of Spirulina, originally belonging to Yunnan Sprague Group Corporation. In 2005, it was separated from Sperry and specialized in the development and research of spirulina. Since Spirulina is scarce in the country and even in the world, many businessmen focus their investment on this. Before 2000, there were only a few companies that produced and sold Spirulina Yunnan. However, in 2000, Spirulina product sales companies that did not have a spirulina breeding base in Chenghai Lake had soared to more than 20 companies. Nowadays, there are more than 40 companies that sell Spirulina under the banner of sales. Not only that, the company is still constantly The increase. For consumer complaints, Yang always thinks that there are two main reasons: First, all Spirulina companies in Yunnan dare to open Spirulina stores, not many for consumers, because they must have The specialty stores can better serve their customers; second, there are not many products that have passed the “health food” certification of relevant departments of the country. For consumers, because of misleading opinions, they believe that all the spirulina products have the same effect. Eating spirulina has no effect, even problems are inevitable. Due to the incomplete understanding of some Spirulina enterprises, consumers have misunderstood the Spirulina brand companies.

It is reported that "health food" is designated by the State Ministry of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. After a functional test certification, it proves that it has certain health effects for the human body. Functional foods and ordinary foods are completely different in nature. At present, Yunnan Yunnan Green A Biological Engineering Co., Ltd. is the first batch of Yunnan Spirulina products to obtain “Health Food GMP Certification”.

In fact, in order to safeguard the rights and interests of consumers, the relevant departments of the state began to regulate the management of health products as early as 1997: the products of enterprises must undergo strict certification, and products that do have health care functions can be approved as health foods. It is common food that has health care functions. Spirulina production companies in order to obtain more profits, many manufacturers deliberately confused the concept of health products and ordinary food, using ordinary foods or even feed to serve as health products, deceive consumers.

However, reporters saw in the market that many spirulina products of Spirulina companies claim to have "medical" and "health care" functions, and even if they do not make "medical" or "health care" brands, they will at least claim to be "natural." Green food." Consumers with a few common senses know that health supplements contain a certain amount of functional ingredients that regulate the body's functions, have specific effects, and are adapted to specific groups of people. General foods do not have specific functions.

In fact, not all Spirulina products have health functions. Any kind of health food must not only strictly comply with the relevant national health indicators, but must also be tested by an authoritative organization. After experiments with animals and humans do indeed have a certain health effect, only the “health product approval certificate” is issued and the use of national health food is permitted. The blue sign, commonly known as the "blue hat" sign.

"Cheng Hai" how much?

Among the more than 20 Spirulina companies interviewed by reporters verbally or in writing or face to face, most companies claim that they have breeding bases on the banks of Chenghai Lake or that the raw materials of their own products come from a breeding base on the banks of Chenghai Lake.

However, on April 22, the reporter, accompanied by leaders of the Government of Science and Technology Bureau of Yongsheng County and leaders of the Chenghai Township Government and responsible persons of the various Spirulina breeding bases of Chenghai, conducted an on-site investigation of the Spirulina breeding base on the shore of Lake Chenghai. People were surprised: Spirulina farming companies on the shores of Chenghai Lake did not have as many introductions as reporters in Kunming. There are only five Spirulina breeding bases such as Green A Company, Chenghai Spirulina Production Base, Sapphire Company, Chengchao Farm, Hongyuan Company, and so on. Among them, Hongyuan Company has not produced or cultured for 6 years. The reporter learned from Yongsheng's interview that the Yongsheng County Cement Plant had obtained the operation right of Hongyuan Company for 10 years this year, but this year it still cannot resume production because many of the original company's equipment needs to be updated. In several breeding bases, the Green A company's breeding base is the largest, covering an area of ​​620 acres, and the remaining several breeding bases are of small scale.

According to the introduction of the relevant person in charge of the five breeding bases, one of the companies claimed to export spirulina powder abroad. In the country, it was limited to the company’s own sales of finished products. No company was commissioned to sell it on behalf of the company; other aquaculture companies said that they produced their own products. Spirulina powder, the province is only a small amount of supply to individual companies, but did not commission any company to sell finished products.

Is Spirulina really hard to produce? It is understood that the cultivation of spirulina seems simple, in fact, is a real high-tech project, the most critical is the drying. As the equipments for drying and dehydration on the market are very expensive, they cannot be purchased by small businesses, and they can only rely on food for the days. The drying and dehydration of spirulina are generally dried by sunlight. If the weather is changing, companies will only be able to dry their eyes, so many Spirulina companies can no longer grow and produce them as soon as they enter the winter. Even in sunny seasons, the cultivation of spirulina is difficult, because if Spirulina is exposed to intense sunlight for 15 minutes, many elements and nutrients of spirulina will disappear during the sun's exposure to produce. The quality of the product will also be greatly reduced. At present, among the five breeding bases of Spirulina in Chenghai Lake, only Green A Company has invested a lot of money to purchase drying equipment. The dehydration and drying of Spirulina only takes 2 minutes to complete, ensuring that many nutrients of Spirulina will not disappear. . Some insiders believe that even though the cultivation process of spirulina is relatively complex, as long as the spirulina product produced in Chenghai, Yunnan Province is superior to the products produced by some enterprises outside the province, its quality will show superiority.

Since this is the case, why are many companies in Yunnan not breeding themselves in Cheng Hai? There are algae experts who have made a point out: The spirulina is a kind of microorganism that is invisible to the naked eye. Its cultivation of algae species, variation control and even harvesting, drying, and sterilization require specialized personnel and equipment. Industrialized production not only requires higher physiology, biochemistry and other multidisciplinary knowledge, but also requires comprehensive technology in chemical machinery. The cultivation of high-quality spirulina requires the necessary cost, so foreign Spirulina cultivation rarely has small businesses. Involved in this is that at present, more than 40 enterprises in Kunming are brand-named “Cheng Hai Products,” and the main reason why the breeding base cannot be built near the Chenghai Lake. (Finish)

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