Study On The Government Responsibility In Food Safety Incidents

With the rapid development of the economy and improvement of the living level, people’s demand of food has not only remained in the food and clothing, began to pay attention to the quality and safety of food. But food safety incidents occurred frequently in recent years and severe food safety situation makes people focus on the government responsibility, and accountability to implement the government’s responsibility in the food safety event to reduce the occurrence of safety accidents becomes one of the key issues.The government responsibility in the food safety event of accountability implementation is a way for government and its civil servants non performance or non performance of food supervision responsibility and ask them to bear negative results. Government responsibility is rooted in the sovereignty of the people, the rule of law theory, including the main subject, accountability object, procedure, way, means of relief elements. Due to the current food market information asymmetry, the supply and demand contradiction of the case, if the regulatory measures are not in place and the accountability is not implemented, the occurrence rate of food safety incidents will be greatly increased. And the key to urge government departments conscientiously fulfill the duties of supervision and management is according to the related theory, established a complete food safety supervision and accountability system, improve the implementation of food safety responsibility.China’s food safety incidents occur frequently, government and its civil servants have an unshirkable responsibility to our country food safety problems. We need to constantly improve the food safety supervision and accountability to plug the food safety regulatory loopholes, formed beforehand and afterwards combined food supervision mode, to increase food producers, processors, distributors, regulators’ illegal cost, play a warning and education role in the government and society, restore consumer confidence in food safety.This article from the perspective of food safety supervision, to pursue the implementation of government responsibility in food safety incident as the research object. Around the responsibility undertaker、the detail content of responsibility and the problem exist in the responsibility tracing at present in our country food safety event,analyzing reasons, then introduce victims compensation in food safety incident. Discussion how to improve the government responsibility of food safety supervision in our country to implement the accountability, improve the supervision of food safety and regulatory personnel responsibility, so as to ensure food safety, to make up for the loss.The full text contains the introduction, main content, conclusion, is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction, introduces the research background, the research goal and the significance, the relevant domestic and international literature review, and research contents and methods, leads to the following. The second part introduces the connotation of government responsibility for food safety supervision in our country, and the theory basis of government needs to take responsibility in the food safety supervision. The third part summarizes the present situation of the government responsibility in our country food safety incident. Through the research on the existing national laws and regulations, regulations, notice of interim measures, combined with the recent food safety incidents, elaborated from the three subjects, assume responsibility, specific content and ways and means of accountability. The fourth part discusses the problem current existing in our country’s food safety responsibility chasing system. By analyzing the present situation of the government food safety supervision responsibility in China, summarizes problems including: content in food safety supervision government responsibility is not clear, after the main responsibility is not clear, the accountability system is not perfect, no compensation mechanism and the food safety supervision and accountability mechanism unable to five problems, and deeply analyzes its causes. The fifth part put forward suggestions. In combination with the reality of government and the practical situation in food safety supervision responsibility in China, put forward the clear and detailed government responsibility, construct victim compensation system, the implementation of the accountability system of government, establish and improve the food safety supervision and restraint mechanism, strengthen the construction of system of accountability.