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Chenguang, Wang --- "Safe food depends on sound legal mechanisms: several theoretical issues of the proposed Food Safety Law" [2017] ELECD 347; in Shi, Jichun (ed), "Renmin Chinese Law Review" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 98

Book Title: Renmin Chinese Law Review

Editor(s): Shi, Jichun

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786434302

Section: Chapter 5

Section Title: Safe food depends on sound legal mechanisms: several theoretical issues of the proposed Food Safety Law

Author(s): Chenguang, Wang

Number of pages: 15

Abstract/Description:

Never before in history has the issue of food safety been so topical in China, and one which stirs up so much intense concern and serious doubt in the public. Media exposure of numerous incidents and even scandals of food safety in recent years has pushed the relevant administrative agencies and the legislature to make a complete overhaul of the current food safety regime and to make it more rigid, or even ‘the most rigid’. Society as a whole has an expectation and demand that food safety should be guaranteed. Among multiple kinds of measures and mechanisms governing food safety, increasing numbers of people have come to the conclusion that the most reliable institutional guarantee of safety is to use the methods of the rule of law to govern the production, marketing, management and consumption of food. This way of governance not only satisfies the requirement of the era of comprehensive realization of the rule of law in China, but also effectively solves a series of Gordian problems of multi-authority administration, multi-section division, multi-producer participation and multi-region involvement arising from the full life cycle of food from production to consumption. Besides, through administration and governance in compliance with the rule of law, an integrative governing system of food safety could be successfully established.