Global challenges of food safety for China

Ever since the Melamine event, China has faced challenges of food safety both domestically and globally. With the economic development, the Chinese consumers are demanding high quality, nutritious, and safe foods from the food industry but are not willing to pay higher prices. The Chinese food chain...

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Main Author: Joseph J. JEN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Higher Education Press 2018-07-01
Series:Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
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spelling doaj-478c8e2259f841869d5067482bf5c94d2020-11-25T00:42:13ZengHigher Education PressFrontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering2095-75052018-07-015329129310.15302/J-FASE-2017167Global challenges of food safety for ChinaJoseph J. JEN0College of Agriculture, California Polytechnic University, Las Vegas, NV 89141, USAEver since the Melamine event, China has faced challenges of food safety both domestically and globally. With the economic development, the Chinese consumers are demanding high quality, nutritious, and safe foods from the food industry but are not willing to pay higher prices. The Chinese food chain system of mostly small and medium enterprises presents challenges to the government to monitor and implement food safety laws and regulations. The academia and media are learning to take on their responsibilities with some success. Discussions and potential solutions of the global challenges of the five pillars for the food safety in China are presented here.http://academic.hep.com.cn/fase/fileup/2095-7505/PDF/1500883038887-460977937.pdffood safety|challenges|food industry|government|academia|media|consumer
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series Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
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publishDate 2018-07-01
description Ever since the Melamine event, China has faced challenges of food safety both domestically and globally. With the economic development, the Chinese consumers are demanding high quality, nutritious, and safe foods from the food industry but are not willing to pay higher prices. The Chinese food chain system of mostly small and medium enterprises presents challenges to the government to monitor and implement food safety laws and regulations. The academia and media are learning to take on their responsibilities with some success. Discussions and potential solutions of the global challenges of the five pillars for the food safety in China are presented here.
topic food safety|challenges|food industry|government|academia|media|consumer
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