A Comparative Study Of Food Safety Laws

The material basis of human survival is food. Food safety has become an important factor affecting China’s social stability and food External Trade Development, the relationship between the national livelihoods. With the improvement of living standards, the quality of life has been improved. Food safety as an important part of people’s quality of life, more and more cause for concern. However, in recent years, China’s food security situation is worrying, from the "poison bean sprouts event to excessive the Nestle arsenic content, then the burst of the" stain bread events "more shocking" waste oil "event. Faced with such a severe food safety issues, food safety laws to improve and perfect the system is great of significance.This article is divided into four main parts. The first part is related to basic theoretical issues of food safety. First, starting from the concept of food safety, and expounded the basic meaning of "food", "food security" and "food safety legal system"; The second section describes the status of extraterritorial national food safety legal system, including the United States, Germany, Britain, Japan and Canada and other developed countries, food safety standards, the system of legal supervision and legal responsibility; The third part through the legal system of China’s food safety regulatory system and other aspects of the status quo, and compared with other countries, the lack of analysis of the legal system of food safety; The fourth part of a number of problems for China’s food safety legal system, drawing on the successful experience of countries outside the proposed measures to improve the legal system of China’s food safety.