Abstract: China has initially established a legal system regarding food safety risk monitoring and assessment, and has completed the construction of a national food safety risk monitoring network. This legal system belongs to the category of administrative law and has the attributes of administrative law. From the perspective of administrative law, the current risk monitoring and assessment mechanism still has some problems in terms of information sharing, risk early warning and joint law enforcement. In order to better ensure food safety, we should reconstruct the legal system concerning risk monitoring and assessment, strengthen risk awareness, improve procedural settings and the monitoring network, and promote the integration of the food safety risk monitoring and food safety random inspection systems. Scientific and efficient risk monitoring and assessment will identify food safety risks timely, guide the formulation of food safety standards and help regulatory authorities with the hierarchical management of food safety, thus further regulating the order of the Chinese food market and providing people with safe and satisfactory foods.

Key words: food safety; risk monitoring and assessment; legal system; reconstruction