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IFFO's participation in the Chinese fishmeal standard revision meeting

On 9th March 2021, IFFO was invited to sit on the side-lines at the on-line meeting by China National Feed Industry Standardization Technical Committee to review the revised national fishmeal standard.

Besides the technical working group of standard revision, academia from Chinese research institutes, Chinese fishmeal producers and feed producers, IFFO is the only participants representing non-Chinese industry players in fishmeal sector.

China fishmeal standard

 

The current fishmeal standard of China was published in 2003. In order to have it revised, a working group of 18 Chinese specialists was set up and so far 17 workshops have been organized. Samples have been collected since 2019 until now, featuring fishmeal from 19 countries and regions, which are commercially available in China market. Whats more 7,158 fishmeal samples from 4 leading Chinese feed producers were analyzed between 2018 and 2021 for result verification.

In total 39,000 pieces of data were collected and analyzed. During the past 8 years, IFFO has been actively engaged in Chinese fishmeal standard revision, providing science-and-fact-based suggestions to competent Chinese organizations. The updated standard is expected to be published by the last quarter of this year, which is described by a leading Chinese specialist as being science-based, operable and world-leading.