Abstract:

Risk assessment is the core and foundation of risk analysis. Risk assessment of the factors that affect the
food safety is of great importance to guarantee food safety, promote food commodity trade and improve the food safety
management system. This paper overviews the sources of food safety risks of aquatic products in China, summarizes the
recent progress in risk assessment of aquatic products for biological hazards such as microorganisms/viruses as well as
fishery drugs, formaldehyde, polyphosphate and heavy metals in import and export trade. We point out the main problems existing
in the risk assessment of aquatic products such as lack of basic data. We also put forward some suggestions on strengthening the
safety risk assessment of aquatic products in order to ensure the quality and safety of aquatic products in China.

Key words: aquatic product safety, risk assessment, progress