Abstract
In our study we analyzed the food safety policy in local governments in Japan, assuming it consists mainly of organizations coordinating various responsibilities, food safety ordinances, and plans of action setting the concrete programs. We have investigated the following set of three questions. First, what is the current situation in local governments as to governing food safety? Secondly, focusing on the food safety ordinances, how are they formulated and diffused among prefectures? And lastly, what is the effect of the food safety policies by local governments?To answer these questions we conducted interviews to the persons in charge of food safety in some of the prefectures. We also sent a questionnaire to 47 prefectures, and received a response from 46 of them.To the first question, we showed the organization and staff involved in ensuring food safety policy in local governments. Regarding the second question, we showed that many prefectures made cross-references when formulating the ordinances. To the last question, the effects on cooperation among many responsibilities, ensuring continuity and lasting improvement of food safety policy and so on have been shown, but we found that new measures ensuring food safety based on risk and science have yet to be actively encouraged.
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