A Comparative Analysis On The Food Safety Law Between Chinese Mainland And Hong Kong

Food is the most basic material conditions for human survival and development, food security is the basis of human survival and continuation. June1,2009, the "Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China" promulgated, China’s food safety problem were paid nationwide attention. However, in recent years, food safety accident is still emerging, there is still a lot of space, exposed on the perfection of the legal system of China’s food safety.The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is a world relatively complete legal system of food safety, food safety accident less. Hong Kong as the world’s most famous free trade port, most of its food derived from imports, which the vast majority of food imported from the Mainland, the face of the complex of imported food from around the world, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region established a relatively reform improve the legal system of food safety. Comparison between the Mainland and Hong Kong legal system of food safety in different jurisdictions, institutional differences on the basis of comparison, but the legal system of food safety is still worth learning and reference. Country can achieve through the legal control of the society, of course, on specific social issues can also achieve effective governance, the basis of this theory, the study of how advanced areas the problem of food safety laws to govern, by comparison, we can draw excellent legislative experience, and promote the development and improvement of the legal system of China’s food safety. From several aspects of the system elements:the system of the body, objects, procedural and substantive rules, comparison of the Mainland and Hong Kong Food Safety Law, the analysis of the problems of the Food Safety Law of the Mainland, the main overview for the following:(1) food inadequate safety supervision, The main divide owe science, functions and responsibilities are not clear;(2) a narrow range of system objects;(3) the lack of law enforcement process standardization and continuity;(4) laws and regulations is not enough punishment;(5) reliance on administrative the regulation not rise to the rule of law height.