FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 313-317.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201203065

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Food Safety Supervision under the Perspective of Public Administration: Discrimination between Problems and Risks

JI Wei   

  1. School of Government, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • Received:2017-02-24 Revised:2017-02-24 Online:2012-02-15 Published:2012-02-14

Abstract: Considering that there are stereotypical views on food safety problems in today,s society, this paper provides objective discrimination between food safety problems and risks from the perspective of pubic administration. This paper speculates that poor management of natural risk factors in food, inadequate understanding of food safety risks, inadequate awareness of the production and processing of safe food, and deliberate behaviors of producers and business operators mainly promote the conversion of food safety risks into problems. Food safety supervision is not a direct cause of food safety problems but is a key factor in preventing and controlling food safety problems.

Key words: food safety, supervision, problem, risk, public administration

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