Our Country Food Safety Crime Criminal Law Research

In recent years, food safety events emerge in endlessly, Sudan red, cooking oil, Shanghai dyeing steamed bread, shineway clenbuterol, zhenjiang burst watermelons, guangdong ink vermicelli and a series of food safety events again hurt consumers, caused the food crisis of confidence again and again, let common people’s life and health has received the serious violation, however, the criminal law on food safety crime somewhat weak. In 2008, a national of the melamine milk powder case does not apply food safety crime shall be convicted and punished, but the crime of endangering public security with dangerous method to convicted and punished. Food safety is a matter of common people’s life and health, it is we must face the priority. When we to condemn and punish on food safety incidents, must explore the root causes of these problems, and discusses the basic way to solve this kind of food safety incidents in. Food safety problem is not only economic, political and social problems, especially legal issues, need to develop and perfect the closely related to food safety law, fair law enforcement, improve food safety laws and regulations, to solve the problem of food safety incidents in further. On the legal level, the governance of food safety problems requires not only related to the civil law, administrative laws and regulations of strong protection, more needs the powerful guarantee of the criminal law. In our country’s legal system, the criminal law is the basic law, also is the last safeguard measures, to solve the problem of a series of maintain social stability and social order is the most severe legal sanctions. Criminal law must also according to the change of social policy to make correction, more inclined to protect the livelihood of the people. At present, facing the food safety risk, needs, from the perspective of the criminal legislation and judicial and law enforcement, strictly, a heavier, fast action of punishing criminals, food safety restore social fairness and justice, to ensure that the people safe and healthy. Food safety is a weak link in the study of crime, the author will be detailed research, to discuss the specific ways to solve the food safety risk, and facing the food safety risk, the criminal law should be how to modify and perfect. To further curb on food safety crime not only realize the people’s livelihood security, stability, national development, and implementation on the perfection of criminal law theory of "criminal law" and "food safety" deep integration, give full play to the criminal law in the aspect of conviction and sentencing of criminal regulation effect.