On The Improvement Of The Supervision Mechanism Over Food Safety

Food safety issues have been a global problem. What lead to spreading anderupting of food borne disease is that industrialization in agriculture and foodstuff, andglobalization in food trade. Food safety influences the happiness of family, fitness ofpeople and credibility of government deeply. Food safety affairs impact societytremendously. It destroyed the faith of consumers that food safety affairs happenedmore and more. There is a dilemma of “double-failure” in market and government infood safety supervision and management field at present.Introduction introduces the topics of this study cause, meaning topics, andresearch methods.First part introduces the necessity, historic evolution and objectives. Because ofthe information asymmetry, cheating and default happened frequently in food serviceindustry. So it is necessary that supervise and manage the food safety; it will reduce theinsecurity factors that strengthening the supervision of Source of food contamination,ensuring the safety of Food produce process, perfecting the emergency mechanism offood safety. The objectives of food safety monitor are reduce the insecurity factors andethical risks of food safety.Part two analyses the current situation and problems of food safety monitor in ourcountry. We have formulated and improved the laws and administrative regulations onfood safety monitor, established authentication system of food, founded market accesssystem of food, enhanced food supervision and spot check probability and improvedSafety information release system. But there are many problems in food safety monitor,mainly focus on market failure and government failure.In the third part, it introduces the setup of institution, supervision measures in US,EU, and Japan. All the said areas are of reasonable setup, efficient risk assessment systems and early warning mechanism, clear food safety information, effective socialsupervision. All the experience are worth considering.Part four gives specific countermeasures for improving food safety monitor.Clearing the right value orientation, promoting the core functions of the government;improving “right restrict power”, improving food safety standard, promoting marketaccess of food safety supervision and management, establishing Information to thetraceability system; improving coordination mechanism of food safety supervision andmanagement, government should change the function of food safety supervision andmanagement actively, and then establish autonomous coordination mechanism betweenfood safety regulators; promoting the development of social supervision in food safety,construct social supervision mechanism, improving public participation mechanism,and then improving lawsuit system in food safety field, strengthen judicial supervision;strengthen supporting system construction in food safety monitor, establish informationdisclosure requirement about food safety and good faith file in food service industry.