On December 2, 2025, at the 6th Shenzhen Biomanufacturing Conference, the Future Food Technology Cooperation Center of the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, which is built based on the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was officially established.
Co-constructed by the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center and Shenzhen, the center is an important part of the local layout of China’s food safety risk assessment system. Relying on the national authoritative assessment system, the center will focus on the safety evaluation of “three new food categories” (new food raw materials, new varieties of food additives, new varieties of food-related products) and genetically modified microorganisms used in food processing. It will provide scientific and standardized testing and assessment services, and issue independent safety assessment reports for the review of new food raw materials. The establishment of the cooperation center means that Shenzhen enterprises can complete the safety assessment of food raw materials “on their doorstep”, significantly reducing time and economic costs.
In recent years, Shenzhen has actively laid out the future food industry. In 2022, it included synthetic biology in the “20+8” strategic emerging industry clusters, and in October 2025, it officially implemented the Several Provisions of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on Promoting the Innovative Development of the Synthetic Biology Industry, which clearly proposed the construction of a food safety risk assessment technology cooperation center. The landing of this Future Food Technology Cooperation Center is the specific implementation of the regulation, marking the further materialization of Shenzhen’s institutional advantages in the field of biomanufacturing.
The center will play the role of a collaborative platform integrating “government, industry, university, research and application”, serve government supervision, industrial development and scientific research innovation, promote Shenzhen to build an innovative service ecosystem covering the entire biomanufacturing chain, and help the high-quality development of China’s future food industry.
