Abstract
In recent years, food safety problems have become increasingly serious in China, and major food safety accidents have seriously affected people’s daily lives, having negative influences on the healthy development of the food industry and the whole economy. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze existing problems of food safety, further study the main cause of frequent incidents of food safety, and propose the corresponding countermeasures. In this paper, food safety incidents occurring from 2009 to 2013 are taken as the research objects, and the food supply chain is divided into five links. Then comprehensive analyses of food category are made, the main responsibility and the possible causes for food safety accidents occurring on each food supply chain links, aiming at analyzing the accident mechanism and proposing improvement strategies.
Highlights
Food safety, which is directly related to the sound development of the people’s health and the social economy, is one of the world’s hot issues nowadays
With the rapid development of Chinese economy, profits and efficiency are becoming a major goal of the food enterprise development, which has brought a lot of food safety hazards
Despite that people have concerned about food safety issues extensively, researches from the food supply chain perspective for food safety incidents are rare, the existing literature is mainly focused on the causes, solving strategies, influencing factors and other areas of food risk occurring on food supply chain
Summary
Food safety, which is directly related to the sound development of the people’s health and the social economy, is one of the world’s hot issues nowadays. Chinese food safety incidents have been occurring frequently, most of which have caused very serious consequences and adverse effects. With the rapid development of Chinese economy, profits and efficiency are becoming a major goal of the food enterprise development, which has brought a lot of food safety hazards. (2014) A Research on Mechanisms and Countermeasures of the Food Safety Incidents Occurring on Food Supply Chain.
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