Government regulations and voluntary certifications in food safety in China: A review
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With the improvement of living standards, people are paying increasing attention to the quality of food. From the perspective of food companies, there are two driving powers to improve quality: government regulations as the external factor and voluntary certifications as the internal factor. Regulation is an intervention on the market by the government through administrative means. The third-party certification voluntarily sought by companies, which enhances company competitive advantage through improving consumers’ acceptance and recognition, belongs to internal driving force.Beginning with the current food safety situation in China, this paper describes the changes in government regulatory agencies and compares the similarities and differences of regulatory systems with the United States, the European Union and Japan. This study examines the development of the Chinese food safety regulatory system since 1949, which can be a reference to other developing countries. Moreover, this paper explains the current status of product certifications and system certifications in China.Lack of social responsibility, inadequate awareness of food risks, pursuit of short-term economic benefits and poor processing technology are the root causes of food safety incidents in China. Based on the analysis of food safety regulation system in China and comparison with the systems in other developed counties. The authors proposed two suggestions. The first suggestion is to reform food safety system, such as formulating food safety laws, enforcing social supervision and so on. The other suggestion is to encourage small and medium food companies to implement product and system certifications.
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Only 41% of the included studies awarded some national or international certification for food handlers.
“Despite the frequent food-related incidents attaching great importance to the certification system [137], only 41% of the included studies awarded some national or international certification for food handlers.”
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- Authors
- Guo, Z., Bai, L., & Gong, S.
- Affiliations
- Jilin University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Gong, Shunlong
- ORCID
- Venue
- Trends in Food Science & Technology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-08
- Volume
- 90
- Pages
- 160-165
- ISSN
- 0924-2244 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2937474676
- Cited by
- 98
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 8.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Food Science & Technology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (71573103)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Safety and Hygiene
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Quality and Management Systems
- Keywords
- food safety regulation, voluntary certification, third-party certification, United States, European Union, Japan, social supervision, food safety incidents, food safety legislation
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
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