Concerning The American Legal System For Food Safety Information Disclosure

The United States is the most confenssed and transparent county on food safetyinformation in the world.Its scientific institutional arrangement has powerful effect onpreventing and dealing with its domestic food safety incidents.With the development of the theory of the right to know and the right to health, theU.S. food safety system has been through the basic period, the improving period and thecomprehensive development period.The scope of information disclosure in food safetyinformation,mainly refers to the food safety information that should be voluntarilydisclosed by law, the food safety information which should be publicly disclosed with theapplication and the food safety information except in accordance. The most importantinformation of food safety is the information which should be disclosed by law. The U.S.law on the scope and dimensions of the public has effect on easing the informationasymmetry consumers and food producers, between operators, thereby providing aguarantee for the food safety.The U.S. food safety legal system of information disclosure has different subjects andprogress of disclosing the information of food safety,wich made it clear in practice.The U.S. legal system of discolsing food safety information has four majorcharacteristics: extensiving in range, a highly degree of public participation, regulatorymechanismsin food safety field and the food safety information system for the continuousdevelopment of public proceedings.China’s food security situation is gradually improving in recent years.But lacking offood safety information law,the duty of government departments is not clear, theinformation of food safety accidents is unknow to the public. such problems stillexist.China should learn from the United States according to the domesticconditions.Inording to building and improving our legal system of disclosurng food safetyinformation,we should improve the public management system and legislation ofdisclosurng food safety information.If customers can bring a law suit on food safetyinformation in practice,the food safety infornation legal system will be well-developed.