The Study Of China Food Safety And Supervision Institution Resarch

Food is of paramount importance to people, and safety is of the fundamentalrequirement for food. The world will be secure when its food is secure and safe. Foodsafety requires comprehensive multi-party management, but the government mustredouble its strict control, which relies on systems as well as institutionalmechanisms.The world’s food safety situation is very grim, and China’s food safety problemsare becoming increasingly serious. It is of great theoretical value and practicalsignificance to study China’s food safety and its regulatory systems.The contents of this paper are divided into two main parts: Part I containseconomic theories on and empirical analyses of China’s food safety problems, andPart II deals with the building and improvement of China’s food safety regulatoryregime.The paper is composed of the following seven chapters:Chapter One, Introduction. It mainly analyzes international and domestic foodsafety situations and historical backgrounds, deliberates the necessity of the topic andits theoretical and practical significances. It makes comprehensive literature reviewsof the world as well as China on food safety regulatory regimes, points out theresearch progress and pending breakthroughs out of the bottlenecks, and identifies theresearch directions and key issues identified in this paper.Chapter Two, Pertinent Scope of and Main Theoretical Basis for China’s FoodSafety Regulatory Regime.1. Definitions of the connotations in the pertinent scopesof food, food safety, food safety regulations, food safety regulation costs, food safetyregulatory regimes, etc.2. Classical writers of Marxism on food safety and itsregulatory theories, including (1) Theories on agriculture being the foundation ofhuman existence and development;(2) Theories on population and labor reproduction;(3) Theories on consumer economics.3. Main theories of western economics on foodsafety and its regulation, including (1) The "broker" hypothesis;(2) Theories oninformation asymmetry;(3) Theories on government planning;(4) Theories oninstitutional economics.Chapter Three, Analyses of the Status Quo of China’s Food Safety RegulatoryRegime, Causes of Its Formation and Difficulties.1. Status quo and problems ofcontemporary China’s food safety regulations, and their main performances and features:(1) Sports-style regulation;(2) Segmented regulation;(3) Sector-basedregulation;(4) Multiple cross-regulations;(5) Penalty-oriented regulation.2.Analyses of the reasons for the runaway regulations of China’s food safety, including(1) Analyses of the reasons on the part of food producers;(2) Analyses of the reasonson the part of food distribution;(3) Analyses of the reasons on the part of foodconsumption.3. Analyses of the difficulties and complexities of China’s food safetyregulation from the economic perspective, including (1) Information asymmetrybetween food production and food consumption;(2) Excessive dispersion of foodproduction and food circulation;(3) Ambiguity of food additive applications;(4)Multidimensional games among food producers and traders, food regulators and foodconsumers.Chapter Four, Review, Inspiration and Reference of Food Safety RegulatoryRegimes of Major Developed Countries.1. Review of food safety regulatory regimesof developed countries (the United States, Britain, France and Germany);2.Reference to the experience of food safety regulatory regimes of major developedcountries.Chapter Five, Rationalization of China’s Food Safety Regulatory Mechanisms. Itincludes1. Effective operations of China’s food safety regulatory mechanisms mustbe based on scientific evaluation mechanisms;2. Evolution and innovation of China’sfood safety regulatory systems;3. Organizational optimization and innovation ofChina’s food safety regulation.Chapter Six, Self-interest Nature of the "Economic Man" and Legalization ofChina’s Food Safety, including:1. Applicability of the "economic man" theory toChina’s socialist market economy;2. Analyses of the nature of the Chinese food"economic man";3. Legal regulations on the self-interest nature of the "economicman";4. Whole-process legalization of food safety.Chapter Seven, Suggestions about Improving China’s Food Safety RegulatorySystems, including1. Functions and roles of systematic regulation of food safety;2.Intensification of the responsibility system of China’s public organizations for foodsafety;3. Strengthening the building of various systems of governmental food safetyregulation. Specific recommendations are as follows:(1) Improving organizationalleadership and clarifying regulatory responsibilities of the governments at all levels;(2) Improving coordination of governmental regulations and emergency responsesystems;(3) Establishing food safety information platforms and adopting the "redlist" and "black list" systems;(4) Strengthening the social supervision by publicopinions and incentive reporting system;(5) Realizing webified systems of China’sfood safety regulation.