Food safety is an important issue related to human health and national economy and people's livelihood. As a member of WTO, China's trade with other countries is growing day by day. Food safety has become a key factor affecting the competitiveness of agriculture and food industry, and to a certain extent, it has become an important restrictive factor for China to enter the international market, affecting the strategic adjustment of agricultural industrial structure and food industry in China. The global food safety situation is not optimistic, mainly manifested in the rising food-borne diseases and malignant food pollution, as well as the new hazards brought by some new technologies and processes of food production and processing, which have brought long-term and serious potential health hazards to human health. Rapid detection technology plays an increasingly important role in daily food safety monitoring, and food safety rapid detection box came into being.

After years of efforts by researchers, China has made great progress in the detection of pesticide residues and veterinary drug residues, trace and ultra-trace detection of important organic substances, detection methods of food additives and banned chemicals, detection and poisoning control of common toxins in biotoxins, and detection technology of important zoonotic pathogens in food.