Abstract:

This article demonstrates food safety legal systems from both an international and domestic law perspective and
presents the logical relationship between technical barrier to trade (TBT) as well as Agreement on the Application of Sanitary
and Phytosanitary Measures and food safety. In this paper, we also propose the dialectical characteristics of international and
Chinese legal systems for food safety and put forward some suggestions to improve China’s relevant laws and regulations.
Food safety in China can be effectively ensured only by objectively dealing with the technical barriers to international trade.

Key words: technical barrier to trade, food industry security, legal regulation