Seventy Years of Progress of Food Safety in China / 中华疾病控制杂志

ABSTRACT

@# Food safety has become the essential issue for national well-being and the people’s livelihood. Since the founding the People’s Republic of China (PRC), food safety has made great progress in all aspects of laws and regulations, surveillance and supervision. Currently, the overall status of food safety in China is moving towards the upside, but still tough and facing great challenges. This paper reviews the changes and progress in laws and regulations, surveillance and management, science and technology in food safety since the founding the PRC, as well as proposes several current challenges, to provide some thoughts to wrap up the past and move forward to improve the food safety in China.