In China, food safety accidents happen frequently in nearly a decade. “Sanlu milk powder incident” in 2008 and recent “cooking oil incident” have exerted a serious influence on public's health and life safety. There are a variety of reasons accounting for this phenomenon , But its main reason is that China hasn't formed a set of system ,covering the entire food safety regulatory field , which should be efficient and scientific. It is a operating guarantee that the country’s food safety laws and regulations, policies and guidelines can be conducted effectively. Scientific and normative food safety regulatory system plays a vital role in reducing costs, improving the efficiency of food safety regulation, effectively preventing and dealing with food safety issues.
China’s food safety regulatory system generally experienced decentralized regulation, coordinate regulatory phase and relatively centralized and unified regulation stage.
China’s food safety regulatory system actually used the system which gave priority to piecewise regulation and used variety regulation as complement in the coordinating regulation stage. The implementation of the system has played an important role in preventing and solving the problems of food safety. But it also exposes many problems in practice. The problems that the cross of food safety regulatory’s authority, poor co-ordination of business as well as the insufficient resources for food safety cannot be solved in a short period of time.
China’s implementing the “relatively centralized and unified network” of food safety regulatory system has catered for the trend of the development of food safety supervision system.In order to make the new food safety regulatory system smoothly implemented, the laws and regulations of food safety regulatory should be changed as soon as possible ,and a food safety commission should play a coordinate role in strengthening the business coordination between different food safety authorities and the integrated optimization of food safety regulatory resources.