The Institute of Shanxi Functional Agriculture at Shanxi Agricultural University (SXAU) began to operate independently in June 2020. The institute is mainly engaged in agricultural product quality and safety testing technology. This includes quality evaluation, quality control, development of standards, agricultural product quality and safety risk assessment, guaranteeing technical measures, registration and safety evaluation of pesticide activity, biological and comprehensive control of crop diseases and insect pests, monitoring the quality and safety of agricultural products in Shanxi province, establishing and popularizing the production quality system of agricultural products in Shanxi province, and providing decision-making consultation for the quality and safety of agricultural products in Shanxi province.
The center is now comprised of the Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Agro-products (Taiyuan) of MARA, the National Institution for Evaluation and Appraisal of Nutrition and Quality for Famous, Special, Excellent and New Agricultural Products, the National Institution for Evaluation, the National Science Base of Quality Safety and Nutrition Health for Agro-products and Chromatography-mass Spectrometry sharing laboratory of Shanxi academy of agricultural sciences. These research platforms are the registered pesticide residue trial agency and insecticide field efficacy trial agency recognized by MARA. The center has obtained the qualification of the Chinese inspection body and laboratory mandatory approval (CMA) and the quality and Chinese agri-product testing laboratory (CATL). The center can provide technical services such as detection of agricultural and veterinary drug residues in agricultural products, pesticide registration residues and efficacy evaluation experiment. It serves as well as a National institution for evaluation and appraisal of nutrition and quality for new Agricultural Products quality.
The center has four professional technical research departments, including the division of quality inspection, the division of process control, the division of high-tech research, and the division of agricultural products quality. By the end of 2022, there were 24 researchers specialized in agricultural pharmacology, plant protection, microbiology, quality and safety of agricultural products, analytical chemistry, food science and soil agro-chemistry.
More information: https://www.sxau.edu.cn/en/Institutes/Institute_of_Shanxi_Functional_Agriculture.htm.
