The Study Of Food Safety Supervision Mechanism In China’s Rural Circulation Area

Food safety in the rural circulation area not only directly relates to the health of the farmers, but also has great influence on the rural economic development and social harmony. However, in present some serious problems still exist affecting food security in rural circulation, due to various factors like the uneven economic development between urban and rural, information asymmetry in rural food market, supervisor’s weak supervision, enormous profit of rural food business, and so on.Food safety supervision mechanism in rural circulation area is administrated by the Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau, which formulates interventions and a series of acts intervening in the allocation of food market and changing the supplies and demands between businesses and consumers. Under the jurisdiction of the rural circulation, Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau uses legal, administrative, economic way to supervise the food safety in rural area. The reason why food safety issues frequently occurred in rural areas not only because of the failure of market’s adjusting the configuration of the food resources, but also the failures of government regulation as governance mechanisms to overcome market, such as rent-seeking, corruption and other behaviors which distorting the allocation of resources. Research on the food safety supervision mechanism in the rural circulation area operating effectively or not, the various elements of the internal mechanism coordinating well or not, the roles of the process affecting smoothly or not, all can provide new ideas to solve problems of food security of rural circulation. Because of the impacts and restrictions of laws, institutions, organization, implementation and the role of regulators, phenomenon like the non-comprehensive laws, imperfect regulatory system, unreasonable organization’s structure, the "rent-seeking" executive regulatory system still exist in food safety supervision mechanism in the rural circulation areas. Therefore, it is advisable to strengthen government regulation continuously in rural areas as well as to improve laws of food safety, food safety regulatory system, food safety regulatory institution, operation mechanism of food safety regulation and service consciousness of regulators, thus to make food market develop healthily and guarantee food security in rural areas.