Day 32,33,34

We will start to talk about Friday, Saturday then Sunday.

Friday & Saturday
Friday we went to Zhong Shan City in Guang Zhou, China with the Hong Kong students for a 2 day 1 night Food Industry visit organise by Hong Kong Food Council ( Like Our SFMA) . We manage to visit a beverages factory, a government food analysis laboratory, a technical education school, a food trading fair and attend a food safety seminar.

We meet at 7.30am at the pier and took a 1 hr 40min ferry to Zhong Shan City. Once we arrived we took a bus to the beverages factory, along the streets there are many banners to welcome visitor to the town as the town is hosting China International Food Trading Fair 2008. Food manufacturing is the biggest industry in the town, thus at most every there you can see some food manufacturing company.

Juice drink is the main product for the beverages factory, the is very big and from what I know China’s food manufacturing plant is very big and most of them is has only one story as China had plenty of land for them to use . However to me their manufacturing process isn’t good, for an example during the filling of juice to the bottle the work did not wear any gloves. And the equipment is quite old and rusty, I felt that it is not suitable to use for food manufacturing purpose.

After visit the factory we went to guang zhou province, zhong shan city food testing laboratory, we visit the difference laboratory they have and currently they are doing some testing on food product for melamine level. We saw some equipment that our school also have! Like GC, HLPC etc. Soon we when for lunch.

After lunch we went to a technical school to visit their food analysis course, the school is very traditional and their teaching medium is Chinese. When I went to visit one of the lesson, I saw that the teacher use Chinese to write on the broad the SOP for titration and the chemical name for each chemical! After the visit we when for dinner then back to hotel! It is quite danger to walk around in china at night thus we went for spa in hotel!!

Next day after breakfast in hotel, we went for the food trading fair cum food fair there are lots of food stall just like what we always have in Singapore. Manage to see and taste different type of china cuisine! Soon we went to a seminar on food safety, in the seminar they talk about the different food safety system that the food manufacturing can use like HACCP, ISO 2200, BRC, IFC etc.

As we got to rush for our ferry so we left the seminar half-way. Took a ferry back to HK, reached HK about 8pm, through this trip we met a lot of friends from year 1 as normally our HK are form year 3.

Sunday
We stay in hostel to do our report and study for our up coming Test!

( THIS BLOG IS WRITEN AT 1AM, WHEN WE ARE ABOUT TO SLP. IF ANY MISTAKE PLS UNDERSTAND !!)