Abstract: The food safety strategy generally includes starting point, goals, tasks and measures. The strategic starting point has a good foundation but faces many challenges, such as serious pollution of the sources, weak industrial foundation, and low food safety standards. The strategic objectives can be formulated according to the short, medium and long term plans under the framework of China’s overall development strategy. The strategic task mainly includes eight aspects, such as taking basic measures to address both the symptoms and root causes of food safety problems. The implementation of food safety strategy should be considered from three aspects including orientation value, governance structure and concrete implementation. We should adhere to the idea of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing to build a unified and authoritative food safety governance system, and implement “the four most stringent” requirements.

Key words: food safety, strategy, goal, task, implementation