Abstract: The Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law has entered the formal legislative process, which is of great significance in serving the innovative needs of the modernization of food safety governance and in responding to the legal needs of the development of food safety public interest protection practices. However, there are still difficulties that need to be urgently addressed in the process of special legislation, particularly regarding the difficulty of investigation and verification, weaknesses in collaborative governance, and uncertainty in imputation standards. Based on the reality of food safety governance, it is necessary to endow the power of investigation and verification with a minimum mandatory force in the process of evidence collection and to strengthen the program design, to build a collaborative governance framework with clearly defined rights and responsibilities and seamless connections along the food regulatory chain, to establish a unified and operable imputation standard, and strive to advance food safety public interest litigation from “ rule by law” to “ rule of law” in pursuit of sound governance.

Key words: food safety; public interest litigation; special legislation