On November 7, 2025, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the revised draft of the "Safety Regulations for Production of Organosilicon Compounds", which clearly requires ethyl silicone oil production enterprises to establish a full chain quality traceability system and implement stricter limit standards for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) content in products. The background of this policy is the recent food safety incidents caused by the illegal use of ethyl silicone oil derivatives.


Case warning: Abuse of ethyl vanillin crosses legal red line
In October 2025, the High People's Court of Shanxi Province announced a typical case: Wang, the owner of a sesame oil workshop, illegally added ethyl vanillin (a synthetic spice only allowed for use in pastries and beverages) to sesame oil in order to reduce costs, and sold it nationwide through e-commerce platforms, involving a total amount of 270000 yuan. After testing, the content of ethyl vanillin in its product exceeded the standard by 30 times, and long-term consumption may cause liver and kidney function damage. In the end, Wang was sentenced to two years and five months in prison for the crime of producing and selling counterfeit products, fined 200000 yuan, and required to pay punitive damages of 2.7 million yuan, which is ten times the sales amount.


Policy interpretation: Control risks from the source
The newly revised safety regulations specify that ethyl silicone oil production enterprises must be equipped with VOCs online monitoring equipment and regularly submit product composition analysis reports to regulatory authorities. For ethyl silicone oil used as food contact materials, it is required to provide a migration detection certificate to ensure that it will not release harmful substances under extreme conditions such as high temperature and acidity. In addition, the regulation has for the first time included "retention of production process data" as a mandatory requirement, requiring enterprises to keep records of raw material procurement, process parameters, and finished product testing for at least five years for traceability investigation.


Enterprise response: dual track parallel of technological upgrading and compliance management
Faced with regulatory pressure, leading enterprises have accelerated the layout of compliant production. For example, Hesheng Silicon Industry invested 120 million yuan to build an intelligent factory that uses AI algorithms to monitor key parameters such as reactor temperature and pressure in real time, ensuring that the impurity content of the product is below 0.01%. At the same time, its developed blockchain traceability system allows customers to view all the flow information of products from raw materials to finished products by scanning the code. The head of a foreign brand in China said, "Although compliance costs have increased by 15%, in the long run, it can enhance the brand's premium ability and avoid market share loss caused by quality disputes


Expert opinion: Security and innovation need to be balanced in development
Zhang Jianhong, Secretary General of the China Fluorosilicone Organic Materials Industry Association, pointed out that "the safety of ethyl silicone oil, as an important industrial raw material, is directly related to the stability of downstream markets worth hundreds of billions. This standard upgrade is not to restrict development, but to force the industry to shift from 'scale expansion' to 'quality priority'." He revealed that the association is working with universities to develop the "Safety Guidelines for Ethyl Silicone Oil Application Scenarios", which proposes differentiated indicator requirements for different fields such as cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food, and is expected to be released in early 2026.