Study On Legal Regulation Of Food Safety In China

Food safety is the foundation of human existence and development; it hasbearing on the vital interests of each consumer and social stability. However, in recentyears, food safety incidents occur repeatedly, which has become a community mustfocus on resolving social problems in China.Faced with frequent food safety incidents, we also need to regulate them throughimproving our laws and regulations in addition to the quality of practitioners. Theissues through the careful contrast and analysis of laws and regulations in China withforeign developed countries consider revising on China’s food security laws andsystems. We can find some existence and defects. These mainly manifested in the lackof administrative and criminal legal system defects and execution. Unmannedenforcement behavior are caused by detect standard and segmentation enforcement ofadministrative legislation and inadequate law; lack of criminal law provisions relatingto criminal law in China. Such as, the existing crime in the criminal law provisions onfood security differs on whether the subjective aspects of such crimes are consideredthe statutory penalty for such crimes. Some acts have not been included in theapplication and practice of provisions of criminal law issues.Carry on the discussion and research. The issues proposed that we should toimprove and supplement the defects and deficiencies. And it is to improve legalprotection for food safety. The principle of strict liability will be introduced to foodsafety-related regulations in administrative legal system, and speed up to perfect thesystem of food inspection standards, and recommendations for problems in lawenforcement. Criminal law has made two adjustments, firstly, it is suggested that thecrime of endangering food safety should be included into the crimes against publicsafety, so as to improve its lack of subjective, and increase its statutory penalty; thesecond proposal is to add new names of crime on food safety. Such as refusing torecall unsafe food, illegal hold unsafe food and so on. Safeguard the people’sfundamental interests.