Legislative Research On Public Participation Of The Local Food Safety Standards

Food safety standards are very important for each one of us the life and health. How to make scientific and reasonable food safety standards, not only need the raising of standards, also need the process open and transparent on setting standard and the public participate in the standard setting. This article analysis the necessity of the public participation in local food safety standards, and explains present situation of the public participation in local food safety standards in formulating legislation. At the same time, this article presents the main problems. For example, the main body is not clearly defined, the information disclosure is not in place, the public participation mode is single, and the feedback mechanism is not perfect. To solve these problems, this article from defining the subject of public participation, perfecting information disclosure procedures, broadening public participation, and sounding feedback mechanism, puts forward the countermeasures to perfect the local food safety standards of public participation in formulating.