The Legal Countermeasures To Regulatory Failure In Food Safety

Nowadays, the status of our food safety is still far from being satisfactory. Food safety has become an extremely prominent problem with the national economy and the people's livelihood. Our government has taken severe measures to regulate food safety, but food safety hazards are still not resolved. It does harm to the state economy and political and social stability. Therefore, it has the extremely important to promote action for which we should strengthen to our food safety regulatory research, to improve and promote our food safety regulatory and reducing food harm occurrence. And all of these measures improve the level of people's lives, and establish a responsible image of the government. In the last few years, food safety regulatory research is also the hot issue of the theoretical research. This text is just about under this theories and practice background to attention the regulatory problems in our food safety.Food harm has been occurred frequently, and it has showed the regulators fail to take its regulatory role in food safety regulation. Market failure and government failure exist simultaneously in food safety territory, so we must examine the problems of the regulators themselves at first. This text will be based on the status of regulatory failure in our food safety and the government failure theory, and then it will be explore the root of regulatory failure from the view of the regulators. The purpose of this text is to overcome the regulatory failure in food safety by means of strengthen the responsibility of the regulators. This text commons seven parts:The first part is introduction, just mainly introduces the main writing purpose, meaning and writing ideas of this text.The second part defines what is regulatory failure in food safety and the related concepts, illustrates the research scope in this text only aim at the limitation of supervision regulators which leads to regulatory failure in food safety regulatory system, and the limitation of supervision market participant is not the scope of the text. Excerpt, this part describes the expression of regulatory failure in food safety.The third part explains the theory root of regulatory failure in food safety by means of the government failure theory, and illustrates the necessary and importance to supervise the regulators. The forth part analyze the system root of regulatory failure in food safety in terms of our food safety regulatory system, and then analyze the problems and reasons in our food safety regulatory system from the regulatory philosophy, regulatory rule, incentive mechanism, accountability system and social supervision mechanism.The fifth part introduces the systems of developed countries on how to overcome regulatory failure in food safety, and learns their advanced experience, draws great inspiration from them.The sixth part puts forward the legal countermeasures on how to overcome regulatory failure in our food safety, including establish the relatively independent regulatory system, perfect the acquisition and disclosure mechanisms of the regulatory information, provide necessary incentive mechanism to the regulators, strengthen the accountability system and produce the supervisory effect.The seventh part is summary, just mainly summarize the text.