Study On The Crisis Prevention Management Of Food Safety In China

With the development of economic globalization, food safety has become a major strategy issue of globalization, and it has received high concerns from Governments and consumers. On March 15, 2007, food safety issue led the top 2-5 among 10 Concerned Issues by consumer in fields of food and health. Based on this, this paper employed the relative theories of Crisis prevention management and asymmetric Information in Economics so as to establish the effective system of food safety crisis prevention.The government attached great importance to food safety and done a fruitful work on protecting the health of the people, keeping social stability and economic development by forming the food safety monitoring system under the mode of socialism planning economics and the inspection network is preliminarily established to regulate the overall process from cultivation and breeding of food, production, processing, marketing to the final consumption. However, with the continuous deepening of reform and opening up, and social progress, China's food safety is now facing an unprecedented challenge and there is still a big gap with the developed countries. This problem has become the Achilles heel of building a harmonious society and sustainable development, particularly, the food safety affairs frequently happened these years reduced the trust of consumers on food safety to an unbelievable lowest. Meanwhile, many new situations and new problems in food safety supervision emerged. The《Food Sanitation Law》and the other related laws and regulations on food safety established under the background of the old socialism planning economics and the current system of food safety supervision is more and more difficult to adjust to the development of the food industry and the requirements on food safety for people in the new era and to regulate and standardize the food industry under the socialist market economy. The existing laws and regulations of food safety supervision and the existing food safety precaution system have been unable to fully meet the requirements of reality and must be reconstructed.Government's concerns on food security is the manifestation of social progress and therefore, it's of great importance to conduct the investigations on Food safety crisis prevention management so as to improve the supervision ability of government, recovering consumers' confidence and lowering social costs. In this paper, we applied case assay by using"Fu-yang milk powder"case,"Sudan"affairs for the substantial evidence to find out the key problems in food safety management system in our country and by comparison, we studied actual conditions of the food safety system in developed countries to provide some experience for perfecting the food safety crisis prevention system. Finally, the countermeasures on improving the management system of food safety crisis was proposed to improve our food safety supervision system, to make better understanding of the key role of the business in food safety crisis prevention and finally, to exert important function of NGO and consumers in food safety crisis prevention management.