On The System Of Administrative Accountability On Food Safety

The system of administrative accountability on food safety refers to a system in which statutory accountable subjects, according to the undertaking performance of responsibility and obligation of the food safety supervisory departments and their officials at all levels of government, ask them to take responsibility for the negative results.Perfecting the system of administrative accountability on food safety plays an important role in further improving food safety supervision and ensuring food safety and people’s health.The defects of the system of administrative accountability on food safety in force in our country are revealed in:the current low legislative status of accountability system, the deficiency of the legislative principle, the obscure distinction of the legislative entity, the deficient legal regulation of procedure, the anomie of the legislative language, the low degree of openness on the process of administrative accountability on food safety, the weakness of supervisory mechanism, the outdated interrelated auxiliary system, the short of the specification on the appeal system of the one who is call to account and the omission of judicial remedy approach.The factors leading to the defects of the system of administrative accountability on food safety mainly include the sense of the people, politics and economics.For example, the serious official standard sense, the lack of accountability sense for the citizens, the prevalence of the conception political achievement of the Only GDP theory, the confusion of the supervisory responsibility of the food safety departments, the obscure accountability jurisdiction assignments for the Party and government offices, the uncertain jurisdiction limits of the upper and lower layer institutions in the industry and commerce quality monitoring and medicine supervision department, the incomplete of the municipality organizational structure reform, the unreasonable resource distribution of the food safety feeler mechanism, the tendency to the economic benefits in the law-enforcement and so on.To improve the system of administrative accountability on food safety in our country, from the aspect of the legislation, we need to establish the basic concept of the service-oriented government, amplify the legislative system, formulate the specific principles for the administrative accountability on food safety and set up the scientific and rational procedure for the accountability on food safety.We also should regulate the current operational mechanism of the administrative accountability on food safety, sort through the responsibility of the supervision departments, perfect the administrative accountability process of the start, investigation and taking of evidence, decision and execution, strengthen the supervisory mechanism of accountability and integrate the interrelated auxiliary systems.What’s more, it is necessary to improve the remedy system of the administrative accountability on food safety, and perfect the appeal system, the administrative review system and the judicial remedy system for the one who is call to account.