Abstract: As an important way of food safety governance, the food recall system is closely related to enterprise compliance construction. Taking risk prevention as the core and fulfillment of compliance obligations as the basis, both can be used as the basis for administrative incentives. In practice, there are problems in the compliance construction of enterprise food safety governance, such as insufficient food recall motivation and insufficient government supervision methods and breadth. Government supervision assumes important supervision responsibilities in the whole food recall process. In the pre-recall stage, there is a tendency toward food quality and safety supervision, and the mid-recall stage focuses on supervising whether enterprises strictly implement the recall plan. In the post-recall stage, corresponding legal responsibilities are mainly imposed on enterprises. In light of this, for the construction of food safety compliance in enterprises, a compliance system with government supervision as the guidance should be built; administrative organs should guide enterprises to formulate compliance plans for food safety governance, correct and punish practitioners who are idle in compliance construction, and take regulatory incentives as an opportunity to stimulate enterprises’ independent compliance construction capability.

Key words: corporate compliance; food safety; food recalls; government regulation