Abstract:

Edible agricultural products are closely related to the health and safety of the general public, and their safety is
a hot topic that has attracted public attention. However, China’s current food safety law is actually ambiguous as to edible
agricultural products. Therefore, the old problem of vague supervision responsibility still exists. Through a cross-national
comparative study on legislation and legal enforcement for edible agricultural product safety supervision, this article tries
to suggest that China should adhere to the macro conception of “foods” for amending its food safety law, take the law as
the basic law in the food safety field, and coordinate it well with the Agricultural Product Quality Safety Law. Besides,
the supervision departments concerned should cooperate with each other to solve the definition and supervision of edible
agricultural product safety under the framework of the Food Safety Law.

Key words: food, edible agricultural products, primary agricultural products