An Analysis Of Administrative Accountability Mechanism Of Food Safety In China

Recently years, concerned with food safety, the management of Chinese government is very much complained for its section supervision with multiple departments engaged. Imperfect laws and regulations, indistinct division of supervision department functions and unclear rights and liabilities are the main causes of the problem. Food safety is concerned with the life and health of people, the harmony and stability of society. Obviously, it is government responsibility to secure that.Administrative accountability comes from the theory of responsible government, social contract, and the sovereignty of the people. Administrative accountability contains of objects, subjects, process, key component, recover and so on. On the basis of our current law and regulation, system of our food safety administrative accountability is not sound with many problems including: imperfect related law and regulation, lack of the object, unclear of the subject, ambiguous standards, indeterminate key component, lack of recover regulation, non-standard process and hidden information.On one hand, the defect of our food safety supervision system causes the failure of normal supervision function of administrative accountability; on the other hand, the own imperfection of the administrative accountability system causes the same result. The food safety administrative accountability is conducted by our administrative objects with obvious randomness, lack of process and strong willing of leaders which can not reflect the design request of responsible government. Therefore, in order to improve the food safety administrative accountability system, it is needed to establish related laws and regulations, enroll more objects of accountability, properly define subjects of accountability, standardized accountability procedure, design recover regulations, open concerned information and so on.