Abstract: In the new era, the new Regulation on the Implementation of the Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China establishes a series of innovative systems. They are the main highlights of this regulation, mainly reflected in implementing the “Four Strictest Requirements”, strengthening the basis for food safety risk control, implementing the principle of whole-process control principle, upholding and fulfilling the principle social co-governance in food safety, adhering to the problem-orientated approach and addressing prominent problems concerning food safety, and carrying out the principle of the rule of law in food safety governance. This regulation improves the institutionalization level of food safety governance, sets great store by combining risk governance with responsibility governance, and strengthens the rule of law in food safety governance, which marks a new trend of food safety governance modernization.

Key words: New Regulation on the Implementation of the Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China, “Four Strictest Requirements”, modernization of food safety governance