Research on the Status Quo and Supervision Mechanism of Food Safety in China

Even if consumption cannot determine the quality of production, the profit-seeking nature of businessmen will surely change the quality of their production to suit the vast consumer base. 2.4 Food quality control technology lags behind, and food quality inspection facilities need to be increased Integrated food safety supervision and food safely incidents prevention can l?e achieved through establishing and improving scientific, rigorous, open and sophisticated detection technology and testing system, increasing testing equipment investment, advocating continuous free testing activities, taking full advantages of China's universities' food safety testing equipment and professional and technical personnel and using paid cooperation and other means. 2.5 A safety monitoring system for online food needs to be established and improved urgently With the rise of the internet + , stylish, fast and cheap online booking and mobile APP booking have become popular among the masses of all ages. The pubic are guided actively to participate in network food safety supervision. [...]a co-governance pattern will be formed. 3 Existing problems and causes In China's food safety supervision and management, unclear responsibility distinction, imperfect management system and nonstandardized technolog)' are the main problems. [...]necessary technical means are absent for producing and trading online food products; the development of testing technolog)' and relevant standards is not timely; hardware resources, especially for trading, monitoring and transaction forensics of online food are lacked; food products quality and safety certification, technical advisory appraisal testing services are not in place; and the feedback mechanism is not perfect. 4 Countermeasures and suggestions for China's food safety supervision mechanism 4.1 Constructing a new pattern of government regulation, industry self-discipline, corporate responsibility and social supervision The research of China's food safety supervision mechanism needs to be normalized. The power of punishment for supervisor's abuse of power needs to lie increased, and the negligent supervisor will encounter heavier punishment. 4.4 Improving people's safety awareness and smoothing reporting feedback mechanism Government departments should dare to take the initiative to expose food safety incidents, report regularly the results of food safety inspection through different media, give full play to the public awareness of safeguarding