Study On The Problem Of Food Safety Information Disclosure

Food safety information is the foundation of making food safety policy and the important content of establishing modern food safety assurance system. The information asymmetry in food market (or incomplete) is the basic reason that causes market failure and food safety questions. Every country attaches great importance to the information management while supervising food safety in order to relieve the contradiction between supply and demand of food safety information. The paper centers on the theoretical principle of information asymmetry, applies comparative analytical method, analyzes the deficiency of disclosing information in China and reveals the gap between China and America. The conclusions have certain theoretical and practical meanings to the improvement of our food safety information system and the foundation of food safety information disclosure mechanism.The main content and conclusion are as follows:1. To explain relevant theoretical foundations of food safety information disclosure. The paper believes that there is information asymmetry among all subjects in thewhole food supply chain. The basic reason is the existence of private information and the basic method is information disclosure. Government should be the subject of food safety information disclosure. Government food safety information disclosure contributes to improve the level of food safety supervision, strengthen credit consciousness of food enterprises and protect consumer rights.2. To reveal current situation of disclosing information in AmericaU.S.A. is the most effective country in food safety management in the world and has established more complete food safety information disclosure system. U.S.A. improves information collection and exchange mechanism, defines the subject of information disclosure, establishes authoritative information disclosing platform, and regulates relevant systems of food safety information disclosure.3. To analyze deficiencies and reasons of disclosing information in ChinaOur country pays more attention to the food safety information disclosure. But there are outstanding problems: the ability of selecting information and analyzing are weak, the subjects are un-complete; the sharing mechanism is imperfect; the material foundation is weak; the range and content is narrow; the laws are deficient and so on.