Development process of follow-up evaluation on national food safety standards in China

Abstract

According to the requirements of the “Food Safety Law”， China has implemented the standard follow-up evaluation， and continuously improved the working machanism. Through this system， the regulators can collect comments on current effective standards， understand the implementation of the standards， find out the problems and analyze the reasons. It plays a key role in continuously improving the standards， and ensuring the scientificity， rationality and practicality of the standards. This paper reviews the development process of follow-up evaluation on national food safety standards in China since the establishment of National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center 10 years ago， and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages. It can provide reference for the next step to better implement the requirements of "the most stringent standard" and optimize the follow-up evaluation on national food safety standards in China.

Keywords

• national food safety standards
• follow-up evaluation
• development process