Research On Quality Safety Of Honey Traceability System

Apiculture, as one of the most traditional and unique industry in China, enjoys a history of 3000 years. Today, its existence and development provide a new way for the development of agricultural industries as well as poverty alleviation and wealth creation in rural areas. It also contributes to the improvement of agricultural ecosystem, adjustment of industrial structure, crop yield increase, economic development in rural areas and capacity to earn foreign exchange through exports. As natural green health products, bee products can improve consumers' health.China's apiculture, whose output is the highest in the world, is export-oriented-70% of its output is for exporting. Nevertheless, China still cannot occupy the dominant position in bee product trading; underselling and the raise of quality standard deteriorate China's trading position. In early 2002, under the excuse of excessive content of chloramphenicol and other antibiotics, EU suspended the imports of Chinese honey. Meanwhile Japan, Canada, the U.S and other countries also stepped up their inspection of Chinese honey, compromising China's export volume of honey.To increase the quality of Chinese honey, this paper provides effective tools for the government and related authorities to monitor bee product's manufacture and distribution and to supervise the quality. From the perspective of the supply chain of bee products, the paper discuss and develop a quality security traceability system based on advanced network, communication, database and international communication coding technologies and conducts related researches based on existing achievements of primary products quality security traceability system.The paper mainly focuses on the following aspects:1. Based on the status quo of major export market of bee products and exporting countries around the globe, the paper analyzes the present situation and existing problems of China's apiculture, participate in design a bee product security traceability system and elaborates on the system's design, realization and basic functions.2. Based on current researches on agricultural products quality security traceability system, the paper analyzes the supply chain of bee products and designs four key quality control points and other key control elements in the traceability chain. According to the features of bee products in different quality control point, we design to establish a quality tracing coding scheme in every link of production.3. We design and realize a quality security traceability system of bee products based on ASRNET technology and Visual Studio2005+SQL Server 2005 platform.This research, utilizing existing communication network platform and technologies, establishes a network application system and framework to trace the production, trading, circulation and quality of bee products. We also realize standardized production of bee products by studying their standards and coding rules. By establishing a database of bee products' producing areas, quality supervision, testing and circulation, the system achieves two-way quality traceability in a user-friendly Web interface.