Research On Food Safety Issues From The Perspective Of Government

Food is mankind’s survival and development of the most basic material conditions. Country people-oriented, food to safety first "food safety issues related to the health and life safety of the people, but also related to the continued development of the national economy and social stability. With the continuous development of economic globalization, the international and domestic food safety incidents occur frequently, the current food safety issues become a global social problems, caused widespread concern of the world’s governments and citizens. How to ensure food safety, food security system built from "farm to table" and become the world’s governments, citizens of the hot issues of common concern.Food security as public goods, due to the presence of asymmetric information, externalities, leading to market failure, provided the conditions for government intervention, government as a rational economic man "in the food safety regulatory supervision of the" missingbit "," offside ", together with the factors of China’s food safety regulatory system, imperfect, and ultimately led to the failure of government regulation. Therefore, how to build an efficient food safety regulatory mechanism of the important issues of the contemporary.Food safety and government regulation as a starting point, based on economic theory and public management theory, the system is divided into four parts to the importance and necessity of the reform of China’s food safety regulatory system is described and analyzed.The first part is a part of the theory of government regulation of food safety, First of all, according to economic theory, explain the basic concepts of food, food safety, food safety, regulatory, and then according to the theory of public administration on food security as public goods, there is an inevitable market failure become inevitable, due to the existence of market failure, government regulation of food safety, but due to the absence of China’s regulatory regime and government dereliction of duty and other factors, eventually led to the government failure. Double failure of the market and the government’s reform of China’s food safety regulatory mechanism became a necessity.The second part of a comparative analysis of the food safety regulatory system in China and Western developed countries. First introduced the food safety regulatory approach of the United States, European Union, Japan and other major developed countries, the United States has established a strict food safety regulatory system, improve the food recall system; Europe has been established from the "farm to fork" food security system; Japan has established a comprehensive food safety information traceability system; historical analysis reviewed the course of development of China’s food safety supervision and analysis of the problems and causes of the current food safety regulatory system; final comparative analysis The successful experience of the United States, European Union, Japan and other developed countries in the food safety supervision of significance in China.The third part of the analysis of the current situation and existing problems of China’s current food safety regulatory system. At present, China’s food safety supervision following problems:the regulatory functions of the departments unclear regulatory corruption and dereliction of duty, the food regulatory legal system is not perfect, strict and unified food safety standards, food safety testing standards far behind the international standard, food illegal cost is too low, the existence of these problems led to China’s food safety regulatory inefficiencies, rampant food safety illegal.The fourth part on the basis of fully learn the advanced experience of foreign developed countries already, and combined with China’s specific national conditions, to build a multi-pronged food safety supervision mechanism from three aspects of government regulation, industry self-regulation and social supervision.