On The Legal Protection Of Consumer Rights In The Field Of Food Safety

" Hunger breeds discontentment, food security is the first." Food safety is a majorissue related to the beneficial to the people’s livelihood. But in recent years, frequentoccurrence of food safety problem in china. It is hurt for the innocent consumers behindthe food safety again and again. When the consumer sovereignty era can come true? Whenthe operator can be the starting point of the production and business activities in order tomeet the consumer wishes and preferences, can let the consumer is always in a leadingposition in the market and the production of disposable operator activities? How to protectconsumers in a weak position? Food protection the interests of consumers how to better?These problems are more and more consumers concern and attention. In2009Chinapromulgated the " food safety law " is to solve the food safety problems of a sword, letmore consumers legitimate rights and interests are protected. But it still has manyproblems in the implementation of the law, so we will continue to improve the legislationand perfect the food safety regulatory system, to prevent and solve at the present stage inChina food security crisis, protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers hasimportant practical significance.This paper expounds from three aspects:The first part outlines the problems of food safety consumer protection foundation.In food, food safety, consumer and consumer food safety field were discussed, on the basisof defining the meaning of the rights of consumers on food safety field, combined with theinstance analysis of consumers rights infringement in the field of food safety.The second part of the field of food safety in our country consumer rights andinterests legal protection present situation and existing problems. First reviewed ourcountry consumer rights and interests protection mechanism in the field of food safetystatus, and then analyzes the food safety field of consumer rights and interests protectionlaw problems, mainly reflected in:"food security" defects in the legal definition of the concept, risk early warning mechanism is not sound, staging and revision of food safetystandards of the regulatory system obviously lag, the problem of food safety informationdisclosure system is not perfect, the food recall system is imperfect, the lack of regulatoryresponsibility, consumers’ rights protection and relief system incomplete, the lack ofrelevant supporting systemThe third part to improve China’s food safety consumer protection legal systemrecommendations. According to the above analysis, puts forward some suggestions, theprotection of consumer food safety legal rights mainly include: the concept of strictdefinition of food security; improve the regulatory mechanism of food safety; the perfectfood consumption risk prevention mechanism; standard system for improved food safety;improvement of product recall system; improve consumer rights protection and reliefsystem improve the relevant supporting system.This paper tries to through the efforts, for our food safety and food safety legislationto provide theoretical support, and provide reference for national legislation, lawenforcement and judicial, thereby ensuring that the people’s life safety and health.