Research on Cost and Benefit in Production Enterprises under the Regulation of Food Quality Safety Market Admittance System

Abstract

Frequent occurrence of various food safety incidences raised questions among all circles about the validity of food quality safety market admittance system. Therefore, exploring the validity of the system and finding out the mentality of its scientific development is a problem to solve. From the perspective of cost and benefit in food production enterprises, a questionnaire survey was administrated in certain city and statistical analysis was applied to results in the article. The authors summarized the characteristics, effects and problems in the implementation of the system and put forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions on the basis. Food quality safety market admittance system (QS admittance system) is an important administrative license system that the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine implements in order to improve the level of food safety, which means a supervision system that only producers who the conditions stipulated are permitted to produce and operate foods, including food production license system, food compulsory inspection system and food market admittance system. Since the system was implemented in 2002, it has played an important role in the aspects including regulating food market order, guaranteeing food safety and ensuring customers' health and safety, but various food safety incidences still happen frequently. Therefore, exploring the effects and validity of the implementation of the system and finding out the mentality of its scientific development is a problem to solve. From the perspective of public management, after the implementation of food quality safety market admittance system, the benefit main body involved by the system—government, enterprises and customers will play games. In the mode of market economy, the equilibrium of the game should be that the system not only realizes the public safety of food, but under its regulation enterprises can obtain sustainable development capacity. Therefore, the research carried out a questionnaire survey from the perspective of cost-benefit of market admittance in food production enterprises so as to understand the impetus and difficulty of the implement of the system in enterprises and provide evidences for its optimization. The research was conducted based on full sample questionnaire survey through telephone, fax and detention questionnaire survey in447 food production enterprises which had obtained food production permit over one year in certain city, and 188 effective samples were collected. Among food enterprises staff surveyed, legal representative accounted for 15.79%, unit responsible persons accounted for 11.84%, quality responsible persons accounted for 44.74% and other staff accounted for 27.63%; Among corporate economy surveyed, state-owned assets accounted for 6.82%, private assets (including individuals) accounted for 29.55%, collective assets accounted for 2.27%, assets which belong to limited liability company accounted for 38.64%, assets which belong to stock limited company accounted for 2.27%, enterprises funded by Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan accounted for 1.14%, enterprises funded by Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan respectively accounted for 11.36%, enterprises invested by foreigners wholly, or jointly with China, or foreigners accounted for 2.27% respectively. Data collection process is in charge of special program group, by means of interviewer management, program training, supervision, ensuring scientific and liable data source. 2. Cost-benefit survey in food production enterprises under admittance system