Problems And Countermeasures Of China’s Food Safety,Government Regulation

The country serving the community. Food security first. Food security related to people’s livelihood and social stability. In recent years, the government regulation of food safety in China continue to strengthen, but the major food safety incidents still occur, indicating that the current overall situation of China’s food safety is still not optimistic. Following the major food safety after the events of "toxic milk","Sudan","waste oil" event has become a major focus of China’s food industry concern. Repeated "waste oil" incident shows that this is not an accident, it is a direct reflection of the many problems that exist in our current food safety supervision, such as food safety legal system is not perfect, the government regulatory body powers and responsibilities are not clear, the current food safety standards system is imperfect, food recall system missing, food inspection and testing, backward technology, and so on. The causes of these problems, the most important thing is our current sub-regulation "mode causes the supervision of the main responsibilities are not clear. Waste oil from9.13serious incident, the Ministry of Public Security4.20project, Jinhua new cooking oil and other cases can be seen, is the supervision of the main duties is not clear, a direct result of some of our country, and some sectors of the food safety regulatory vacuum. In addition,"waste oil" event also reflects a special problem in the regulation of waste oil-complex sources of waste oil, are complicated, difficult to adopt a uniform standard for testing. This is also a tremendous challenge to develop China’s food safety standards.On how to further protect our food safety issues, we can learn from Western developed countries such as the advanced experience of the United States, Japan, Canada and other countries, these countries generally have established a special food safety regulatory bodies to leadership and management of the national food safety affairs, has a complete legal system, food safety certification system, the system of food safety standards, advanced detection technology, and so on, these are worthy of our country to learn from. Through the analysis of shortcomings in the government regulation of food safety in China, reflected in the event of "waste oil" and learn from the successful experience of developed countries, China from clear food safety regulatory body, to improve the existing legal system for sound access system for food safety, recall system, a standard system, credit system, improve the food inspection system, promotion of HACCP system, improve the system of food safety risk assessment, optimization of government regulation and external environment to promote government regulation construction of China’s food safety.