Research On Legal System Construction Of Chinese Food Safety

The fourth session of the 11th National People's Congress has passed "Outline of The Twelfth Five-year Plan for National Economy and Social Development" in March 14, 2011.The outline runs through the theme of improving people's livelihood, and the supervision of food and drug is further reflected. Outline pointed out that: "enact and improve food and drug safety standards. Set up the traceable system of food and drugs'quality, and develop a safety chain of responsibility, which can trace back source, check where to go and investigate responsibility. Improve the healthy food and drug safety emergency system, strengthen the rapid notification and rapid response mechanism. Strengthen the monitoring, evaluation, warning and regulatory enforcement, and enhance the effectiveness and credibility of regulation". This shows our country has paid sufficient attention to food safety. With the events of domestic food safety frequent outbreaks (including the event of "lemon pigment" steamed bread happened in Shanghai recently) recent years, food safety problems have attracted the whole social widespread attention. Food safety is not only related to people's healthy life and property security, but also can affect the whole country's social stability and development of national economy. In this case, "Food Safety Law" arises at the historic moment, and " Food Safety Law" plays a very significant role in solving China's food safety problems. However, only introducing a law cannot do enough to solve all the problems of China's food safety. China's current food safety laws mainly include laws, regulations and rules, and the diversification of formulation main bodies, the disunity of food safety standards, the subsection implement of food safety regulatory responsibility and so on. A series of systems is extremely easy to cause power negative conflict, make no regulator pay attention to food safety problems, and consumer have no complaints channels when food safety problems appear. The author attempts to further define related concepts of legal system construction, legal system construction of food safety, to discuss main contents of legal system construction of current Chinese food safety, to illustrate the historical evolution of legal system construction of Chinese food safety, to analyze and compare legal systems of domestic and foreign food safety. At the same time, the author also argues legal system construction problems of our country's food safety, clears the necessity of speeding up the legal system construction of food safety, establish people-oriented scientific legal concept, advocate formulate a unified food safety standard as soon as possible under the guide of Marxism jurisprudence, further comb regulatory bodies, perfect judicial responsibility system , form a unified and perfect legal system of Chinese food safety, promote legal system construction of Chinese food safety, provide helps for food safety's legislation, administration and jurisdiction, and lay a good basis of good diet for realizing to increase one year of national life expectancy during the period of "The Twelfth Five-year Plan ".