Abstract
Ever since the Melamine event, China has faced challenges of food safety both domestically and globally. With the economic development, the Chinese consumers are demanding high quality, nutritious, and safe foods from the food industry but are not willing to pay higher prices. The Chinese food chain system of mostly small and medium enterprises presents challenges to the government to monitor and implement food safety laws and regulations. The academia and media are learning to take on their responsibilities with some success. Discussions and potential solutions of the global challenges of the five pillars for the food safety in China are presented here.
Highlights
To say that China is facing a great many challenges in food safety is probably an under-statement
Consumers are demanding food products of more variety, more convenience, and low prices all at the same time. To meet these consumer demands of modern China, the food processing industries are producing more food products using non-traditional processing methods which has not been tested with time, are more likely to have food safety problems
The challenges to the Chinese food industry is that the industry has been based on high volume, low profit production, often do not have cost of food safety program involved in the production
Summary
To say that China is facing a great many challenges in food safety is probably an under-statement. Consumers are demanding food products of more variety, more convenience, and low prices all at the same time To meet these consumer demands of modern China, the food processing industries are producing more food products using non-traditional processing methods which has not been tested with time, are more likely to have food safety problems. Consumers are used to unsanitary food products may cause diarrhea problem particular when one travels to different locations of the country. It is not until 2008, when the Melamine caused infant formula made thousands of children hospitalized and death of infants[2] that the country as a whole started to pay attention to food safety
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