Research On Improving Government Food Safety Regulatory System In China

Hunger breeds, food safety is first. The recent food safety incidents make usre-examine the effectiveness of food safety regulatory system. In China, the publicconsider food safety as one of the worst aspects of social life. Food safety is animportant issue related to people’s livelihood, directly affecting the lives safety of thepublic, and is an important symbol of a national people’s life quality. With thehigh-speed push on internationalization and globalization, the rapid development ofscience and technology, the influence of food safety issues increase, so each yearthousands of people suffer from various diseases due to consumption of food. Thesefood borne diseases can seriously affect people health, reduce social welfare, andreduce production efficiency.The first section describes the theory about our government food safetyregulation, pointing out the necessity of food safety regulation.The second section mainly introduces the current food safety regulatory systemin China, first introduce the basic overview of food safety regulatory system, then thefood safety regulatory agencies, food safety supervision rules and food safetyregulatory means.The third section points out the problems of food safety regulation in China. Bythe "clenbuterol" event, the melamine event, the artificial eggs event analyze the mainfood safety regulation problems in ChinaThe fourth section analyzes the reasons of the problems of our government foodsafety regulation by game through higher levels of government and lower levels ofgovernment, government departments and enterprises, enterprises and consumer.The fifth section proposes policy recommendations to improve our governmentfood safety regulatory system. Including improving the legal system of the food safetyregulatory, establishing the flexible local government performance evaluation systemin the field of food safety, establishing Food Safety Information Network and the Food Safety Database, improving the food recall system, improving the consumerprotection measures and giving full play to the role of social forces on the regulationof food safety.