Abstract: Food safety crimes frequently occur nowadays, and the current situation of food safety is grim and complicated. Food safety is a matter of life and health of the public and also a major social problem of governmental concern. In view of the actual problems existing during the transition of administrative law enforcement on food safety supervision to criminal justice such as difficulties in finding food safety crimes and transferring them to judicial organs, identifying potential risks and legal application, we point out that dual legislative system on law violations and crimes, non-unified standards for the recognition of food safety offenses, and difficulties in launching criminal investigation and in evidence fixation and transformation are the causes of the unsmooth transition from administrative law enforcement on food safety supervision to criminal justice. Moreover, we propose some suggestions for improving the current mechanism for the transition from administrative law enforcement on food safety supervision to criminal justice.

Key words: food safety, administrative law enforcement, criminal justice