To open up the path for international scientific research frontiers and the implementation of the health industry, deepen the deep integration of Chinese and foreign industry, academia, and research, and support the quality and upgrading of functional foods with medicinal and edible origins, Professors Sedi and Shaden from Uppsala University in Sweden made a special visit to Shandong Baino Biotechnology Co., Ltd. for on-site visits and in-depth academic exchanges. Chairman Fan Zhaosen accompanied the entire reception with the core teams of the R&D center, production management, and technical quality control teams, completing factory tours, workshop field inspections, special seminars, and two-way PPT sharing throughout the entire process, building a long-term bridge for China-Europe health research cooperation.
1. Visit and Tour: On-site Inspection to Conduct a Comprehensive Inspection of the Enterprise
On the day of the visit, two professors from Uppsala University arrived in Bainuo, Shandong, where the company's management team warmly welcomed the experts who had traveled from afar. The reception staff first led the professor team to tour the company hall, R&D laboratory, sample display area, and production workshop, providing a comprehensive introduction to Bainuo's overall industrial layout. Deeply engaged in the extraction of functional ingredients from medicinal and edible and new resource foods, as well as customized production of health foods, covering multiple categories such as powders, beverages, specialty foods, and compressed candy. It holds multiple qualifications as a high-tech enterprise, specialized and innovative enterprise, and a gazelle enterprise. It owns provincial-level engineering research centers, postdoctoral innovation practice bases, and other advanced research platforms, holds 36 authorized patents, and possesses mature capabilities for R&D transformation and large-scale industrial transformation.
2. Visiting a Class 100,000 Cleanroom Factory to Closely Inspect Standardized Production
Afterwards, the group visited the production center base and entered two major 100,000-class purification workshops for on-site observation. Under strict adherence to food cleanliness management standards, the team visited the automated plant beverage production line, solid powder packaging line, raw material extraction workshop, sterilization storage area, and quality inspection laboratory in sequence. The production manager explained the entire process from raw material entry, fine extraction, blending processing, aseptic filling to finished product inspection, and introduced the company's international management systems such as ISO9001, ISO22000, and HACCP, as well as standardized production control and full-process traceability management models.
3. In-depth discussion in the conference room, two-way sharing and collision of new research ideas
After the factory tour, both parties moved to the multifunctional conference room for a special industry-university-research exchange meeting. The technical director, R&D engineers, and quality control supervisors all attended, engaging in in-depth discussions on three core areas: cutting-edge R&D of functional foods, modernization of medicinal-food homology, and R&D of products adapted for overseas markets.
In the first half of the exchange, Professors Sadie and Shaden presented their presentations on PPT presentations, leveraging Uppsala University's strengths in life sciences, nutrition, and bioengineering, sharing cutting-edge research findings on functional foods in Europe. Several professors analyzed the logic of overseas functional product R&D based on Nordic health consumption trends, and combined Shandong Baino's main product categories to specifically analyze the overseas feasibility of applying white kidney beans and medicinal-ed-food homology herbal ingredients, listing multiple feasible joint research directions. Questions about domestication technology and cross-border food compliance standards were actively raised, with both sides trading hands-on experience on technical challenges.
4. Reaching a consensus on cooperation to open a new chapter in China-EU health industry collaboration
After the seminar, to deepen long-term strategic cooperation among industry, academia, and research and strengthen the core of enterprise innovation and R&D, Shandong Baino held a grand renewal ceremony for foreign experts, officially reappointing Professors Saidi and Sha Deng as the company's distinguished experts.
Director Cheng Guosong of the County Organization Department's Talent Office presented appointment certificates to each professor and expressed sincere gratitude for their dedicated guidance and support. In the future, relying on the cutting-edge research strengths, academic resources, and international perspective of these two professors, we will provide precise support in raw material innovation, formula iteration, process upgrades, achievement transformation, and compliant overseas market layout." Helping the company achieve technological breakthroughs and product innovation in the functional food and biohealth fields.
In the future, Shandong Baino will continue to connect global intelligence with an open approach, adhere to scientific research and innovation-driven approaches, deeply integrate international advanced technology with local resource advantages, continuously refine high-quality health products, and support the high-quality development of the domestic functional food industry through dual empowerment through industry, academia, and research.
