A Study Of Mechanism Of The Early Warning On Food Safety Crisis

The crisis of food safety threats people's health seriously, blemishes the government's credit, and even influences the society's stabilization and the national security. From the perspective of public administration, that the food safety crisis occurs frequently in our country is possibly caused by the chaos of food safety supervision and management as well as the lack of early warning mechanism.The present food safety situation and some food safety crisises were analyzed in this paper. The paper showed that the total number of food-born illness was terrible and the grave crisis happened frequently. It also suggested a target system of early warning for food safety crisis, on basises of eligible rate of food examination, the data of foodborn illness, the special governance on food safety, the data of food risk assessment, the information of market feedback and the complaints of residents on food safety.According to the characteristics of food safety crisis in our country, the early warning mechanism of food safety crisis should include the countrywide food supervision and examination system, information collection and analysis system, forecast, prevention and control system. Firstly, a comprehensive food safety supervision and examination mechanism should be constructed by a central authority which can organize and coordinate all relevant departments to act as a core, and to formed a network. Secondly, a food safety information center should be established, whose main task is to collect, analyze, classify and assess the information database. Thirdly, the task of food safety crisis forecasting should be executed by expert analysis system, and must be promptly notified to the public. Lastly, effective intervention measures must strengthened to prevent, eliminate or ease a food safety crisis.The early warning system also needs the supports of proper organization system, legal regulations and standard systems. It should be formed from...