On The Problems And Solutions Of Consumer Protection In The Area Of Food Safety

Food safety which directly affects the people’s life and health, has been a hottopic of our citizens. In recent years, some serious food safety and quality problemsappeared in our country, such as shuanghui lean fine events, Hebei water injectionbeef, gutter oil, plasticizer events, all these events suggest that food has become aserious impact on the public health and life safety of important issues. There areplenty of food safety scandals extremely distrust consumers not only for foodproducers, but also question the government regulation ability. Food health law Issuedand implemented in2009has a great progress, the law established a segmentedregulation is given priority to complementary variety regulation of the regulatorysystem. Its good to Establish the system of food safety risk monitoring and evaluation;unify national food safety standards; increase penalties for illegal food production ormarketing behavior, to the producers or marketers of food production and businessoperation activities of the guidance and norms, to consumer health and safety of life,at the same time, played an important role. But frequent food safety incidents alsoexposed lots of problems, such as lacking of protection of consumer rights andinterests in the field of food safety in our country, the legislation of "food safety law"itself, or its implementation process, the protection of consumer rights and interests,etc. By the case analysis of the proposed element beautiful baby food safety problemsexisting in the protection of consumer rights and interests in our country, and from theangle of market failure and government failure, this article analyzes the specificreasons, food safety problems through introduction to foreign advanced system, such as centralized supervision system, public interest litigation system, and the food recallsystem. Combined with China’s national conditions, attempt to give a perfect foodsafety protection of the rights and interests of consumers, mainly from theimprovement of the legal regulation system for food safety law and the strengtheningof government regulation, food enterprise self-discipline, as well as consumers,industry associations and media supervision aspects specific analysis.