On December 9, the Shenzhen Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to the majority of aquatic product operators: drug residues in aquatic products, especially illegal drugs, can be directly sentenced according to the judicial interpretation of the "two highs".

Like other agricultural products, the safety of aquatic products is also an insurmountable red line. Government departments have vigorously cracked down on illegal drug residues in aquatic products, reflecting the current problem of "fishing drugs" in the aquaculture industry, which is gradually being put under the "spotlight".

Profits outweigh safety

The industry supervision mechanism is not perfect, the source of production is chaotic

"The entry threshold is low, the sources of raw materials are uneven, and the medicine and health products are stupidly unclear." According to a number of industry insiders, the source of production is the originator of the chaos in the fishery medicine industry.

In terms of categories, fishing drugs belong to the category of veterinary drugs, but their unique application objects and application environments are very different from veterinary drugs. In fact, the lack of complete rules of the game has put the entire fishery drug production industry in a "mixed" stage. The direct reason for the chaos at the source of fishery drug production stems from "the greedy pursuit of profit by small workshops and small companies".

With the improvement of the quality and density of aquatic product aquaculture, the demand for fishery drugs is also increasing, and the amount of drugs will increase, and the cost of farmers will inevitably rise. Therefore, "cheap and high-quality" fishing medicine has become an urgent need for farmers. When there is demand, there is interest. "Good quality" can be put aside first, and "cheap" often becomes the "core competitiveness" of many small manufacturers and underground workshops. A large number of "three noes" products and illegal drugs have blossomed everywhere. There are also some manufacturers with insufficient strength or qualifications that focus on "maximizing benefits" and make a fuss about the selection of raw materials or the ingredients of fishery drugs.

Gu Huihua, Marketing Director of Beijing Xinyang Aquatic High-tech Co., Ltd., told reporters that due to the extensive development of fishery drug production in the initial stage, the raw materials can be marketed and sold simply by premixing and packaging, resulting in many people who do not have the qualifications to enter the industry. Although the state has continuously introduced new policies and regulations to regulate the industry, driven by interests, these suppliers of fishery medicines have not only not disappeared, but have become increasingly rampant to use low-priced and unsecured raw materials for production. Use the official manufacturer's approval batch number to sell the product.

In addition, due to the low technological content of most traditional fishing medicines, it is easy to imitate and copy, which greatly reduces the threshold for entry into the industry. Due to the low production cost and relatively low terminal sales price of these fishery medicine products of "unknown origin", they are often more popular than regular products.

"Playing the edge ball" is also one of the ways that many production enterprises with insufficient qualifications and strengths create chaos. "One is that raw material procurement is not strictly controlled, and some raw materials that do not meet safety standards or that have long been banned by the state are used for production. The second is that 'adjusting agents' do not belong to the scope of veterinary drugs and are not subject to the supervision of relevant policies and regulations. ." Gu Huihua introduced. Taking chlorine dioxide, which was widely used as a raw material for aquatic disinfectants, as an example, in the Announcement No. 1759 issued by the Ministry of Agriculture on April 17, 2012, the veterinary drug standard for chlorine dioxide preparations was abolished, but due to its low price, The surface disinfection effect of the finished product is good, and it can also be accepted by farmers. Therefore, in the actual production process, a large number of manufacturers still go their own way.

Zhang Yandong, general manager of the animal health department of Beijing Samp Biochemical Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that in the process of aquaculture, the probability of disease occurrence has been greatly reduced, and farmers pay great attention to the immunity of seedlings and the adjustment of water quality. There is a huge market for health care products for water quality adjustment and improvement. However, many "water quality modifiers" on the market do not have much practical effect. Many manufacturers simply premix pesticides and other preparations, and then create a gimmick to cure all diseases. Good sales will come soon. "Most of the 'modifiers' are produced and sold by manufacturers with insufficient production strength or technology, and most of them are transformed from veterinary drug manufacturers that have not obtained a 'GMP certificate'. As for whether the formation of drug residues on aquatic products affects food Safety, no one will be held accountable.”

Although there are many sources of fishy drug chaos, according to the reporter's on-the-spot investigation of fishery drug intermediary sellers and first-line farmers, the confusion in the downstream sales and end use of the industry is no less than the upstream of the industry chain.

Survival pressure leads to downstream chaos

Without technology and strength

Lao Chen has been operating fishing medicine in Datang Town, Sanshui District, Foshan, Guangdong for nearly ten years, and he is very good at selling fishery medicine. "Generally, farmers buy fishery medicines through years of farming experience and consulting with farmers they are familiar with or with distributors like us, so I have been selling fishery medicines for seven or eight years, and I have also maintained the relationship between Datang Town and surrounding areas. A large part of farmers in the farm town." Lao Luo's sales experience is summarized as "relationship maintenance", which is also recognized by Qin Shengju, chairman of Nanjing Jubao Bioengineering Co., Ltd.: "In the downstream of the fishery medicine industry, the dealers The quality of practitioners and farmers are generally not high, and there are few scientific methods for the selection of fishery medicines, and most of them rely on experience or the suggestions of others, which also laid a foreshadowing for the promotion of fishery medicines with 'benefit' as the main focus."

"Actually, we are also under great pressure to do sales. First, there is no systematic technology. Although we have accumulated some experience and technology in the process of selling drugs, it is still not enough to support the treatment of various complex fish diseases. We can only simply follow the instructions of the drug. Selling, or calling the local technicians dispatched by the fishery drug manufacturer; second, the pressure on funds is high, and the credit sales situation of farmers is relatively serious. Whether it is feed or fishery drugs, most of the aquatic products are taken out of the pond to pay off the money. In the event of a serious illness and the entire pond is lost, I don’t know when the arrears will be recovered.” Lao Luo concluded that in the absence of technology and funds, the pressure of survival often makes dealers “chaotic”

The aquaculture industry in Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province is relatively developed, and Lao Zhang, who makes fishery medicine, also feels "chaotic", but in order to survive, he has no choice. "I have operated dozens of fish medicine products myself, including well-known manufacturers and some little-known small manufacturers. The products of big manufacturers have good long-term effects, but the price is high and the profit is low. We will tie some of the high-profit and Irrelevant fishing medicines can increase their sales profits.” Lao Zhang admitted that this is an unspoken rule of the industry, and everyone does it, “The promotion of water quality improvers is the main trick to maintain sales profits at the moment, and this thing is pure and simple. The bactericidal and insecticidal effect of the water is generally good, and there is no problem after using it. The farmers buy it back and use it. But it is generally rare to recommend water quality modifiers from well-known manufacturers. The products of these manufacturers are relatively expensive. The cost is too high for farmers, and the profit is not high enough for us, so we are pushing some improvers with low price and high profit.”

This statement was also confirmed by Lao Zhao, an aquaculture farmer in Xinjin County, Chengdu. Lao Zhao has more than 20 acres of fish ponds, mainly for the mixed layered culture of silver carp and carp. When the market is good, he will do fry cultivation. "I have raised fish for so many years, and I still have my own way of choosing fishing medicine. Sometimes I can talk more than those who come to Tangtou to sell fishing medicine. Besides, I still believe in the fish farming nearby. Experts and recommendations for selling feed and fishing medicines in the town." Speaking of the selection of fishing medicines, Lao Zhao said in a straight-forward manner, "The main thing is to do a good job in the control of water quality. , will suffer losses. But there are occasional misses, and sometimes a batch of fish will die, and the family’s life will also be greatly affected, except for the feed and fishing medicines sold on credit that cannot be repaid on time.” Zhao said this is rare, and it hasn't happened to him, but they have had it happen in their village.

When the reporter asked Lao Zhao if the fish in his fish pond were safe, he hesitated, "This thing is all based on experience. If you want me to explain scientific reasons, I can't explain it. But the fish I raise are definitely safe. Usually we ourselves I’m eating.” Immediately, when the reporter asked Lao Zhao’s fish whether antibiotics and other drugs were considered to be residues, Lao Zhao was helpless: “Actually, we are concerned about food safety and national health. Maybe one day our diet will be The unqualified products fabricated by ourselves, but there is no way. The use of antibiotics and other drugs is forced. Our farmers hope that manufacturers or fish disease experts will make great efforts to study and study the fish medicines for diseases that urgently need to be solved in aquaculture. Get the price down."

The three "industry representatives" with different identities can be said to be typical samples of the chaos in the downstream terminal of fishing medicine. Dealers and farmers have low professional quality and lack financial and technical support. When faced with survival problems, they have to follow the old road of "chaos" over and over again. As for whether the industry is chaotic or not, as for whether random drug sales and drug use will cause food safety problems, it doesn't matter to them.

Chaos is not the future

Industry reshuffle, large-scale development is a good way to deal with "chaos"

"Improve the rules of the industry game, clearly implement the industry supervision responsibilities, and speed up the reshuffle of fishery drug production enterprises; fishery drug production strengthens scientific research investment, and forms an industry alliance mechanism for fishery drug production; dealers should also reshuffle and improve the development of dealer channels. Increase the technical output and support for dealers, and continue to assist dealers to serve the market well; aquaculture accelerates the development of large-scale aquaculture, and improves the quality of personnel involved in aquaculture.” Qin Shengju, Zhang Yandong, etc. Several "enterprise representatives" have a highly consistent understanding of the path for the fishery and pharmaceutical industry to break away from the current chaos.

In fact, the country has been making continuous efforts to formulate industry rules, but a legal and rational regulatory environment cannot be accomplished overnight. Under the current circumstances, enterprises can only start from themselves and strengthen market adaptation and transformation. "Strengthen our own research and development capabilities for fishery medicine products, strictly control the import of raw materials for production, and ensure the quality and quantity of products; strengthen unified supervision of distributors, unify product retail prices, strengthen the construction of our own technical service team, and improve the quality and quantity of our products. Technology will increase training and support. In the future, it will also plan to cooperate with some powerful distributors, implement physical franchise stores with strong service and technology, and strive to open up the intermediate links, so that the high-quality fishery medicine products developed by itself can be sold at the terminal price. The actual reduction is actually lower, so that farmers can use more effective fishery medicine products under the protection of technology." Gu Huihua is very clear about the company's future development ideas.

And Qin Shengju emphasized that in the future development of the fishery medicine industry, Jubao will not only increase the research and development of products and the technical and even financial cooperation support for distributors, but also vigorously promote the support of after-sales service of fishery medicines. . "Increasing the establishment of our technical team, we must strive to push our technical team to Tangtou, let the professional technical team go deep into the field, check and deal with the situation of farmers, and at the same time solve the problem, incidentally improve dealers and The professional quality and technical content of the farmers.”

Judging from the actual situation, although the entire fishery medicine industry chain is chaotic from the source to the end, both producers, sellers and users all hope that the industry will move towards a scientific and healthy development path. Only the healthy development of the entire fishery and pharmaceutical industry can ensure that aquaculture achieves healthy and green product output from the source, can prevent toxic and harmful aquatic products from going to the table at the source, and can control food safety issues. This is not only the responsibility of relevant government agencies, but also the responsibility of the entire fishery and pharmaceutical industry, and even the responsibility of every practitioner in the entire aquaculture industry.

Fishing and pharmaceutical companies are looking for directions in a chaotic market

The confusion in the fishery medicine market may be attributed to the blind pursuit of output in the aquaculture market, which attracts many small manufacturers from Wenli. gradually revealed.

The prosperity and chaos of the fishery medicine industry is not unrelated to the increase in aquaculture production to a certain extent. The logic is that if farmers pursue efficiency and find ways to increase the breeding density, they will inevitably need to increase the amount of feed fed. The direct consequence is that the water quality will deteriorate and the fish diseases will increase. The main solution at this time is inseparable from fish medicine— - This is a broad term, including medicines for the treatment of fish diseases, because there are many diseases, and the past few years have also given opportunities for fishery medicine companies to develop; the other is fishery medicines that are not in the category of medicines, such as water quality improvers. aquatic products.

According to tradition, fishing medicines are divided into four directions: insecticides, disinfectants, oral medicines and water quality improvers. Regarding the two sectors of insecticides and disinfectants, Li Yuanguo, technical director of Wuhan Zhongbo Aquatic Biotechnology Co., Ltd., believes that it is a troublesome thing to prescribe the right medicine, because there are many breeds, and different breeds are sensitive to drugs. "There are different types of ringworms, and each has a different degree of sensitivity to medicines. Zhongbo has done a lot of exploration work on trichocarpus and ringworms, and has accumulated a lot of experience, but it is still not guaranteed to cure the disease." Li Yuanguo Express.