Abstract: Food security is faced with credit problem, so it is urgent to construct security and credit system of functional food. Based on the characteristics of functional food, this paper regards the related enterprises as main objects and discusses essential ingredients and primary function of functional food credit system. The credit system of functional food is divided into two parts in this paper, i.e., the corresponding system construction and database establishment. The corresponding system construction consists of four aspects about functional food as follows: the emphasis of credit management, research on the system of credit standards, credit collection and evaluation mechanism and the rewards, punishment and publication of the credit. The other part of the paper discusses the relationship between the database construction of the functional food credit system and that of the food security credit systemi nC hina. Byu sing establishedd atabaseo fs upervisiona dministrations,c rediti nstitutionsa ndf inancial system, online service system based on network techniques should be established to form three-dimensional credit files of functional food and query service system.

Key words: functional food, credit system