Food Safety Education and Training Programs in China

Even before the issue of the 2009 edition of the Food Safety Law, the Chinese government had already required all food processing establishments to provide food safety professional positions. These require formal food safety education to be qualified for certification and workers are required to have training to ensure safe food production. Therefore, the food safety education and training programs in China have gained in importance through these evolving processes. Food safety, food defense, food security, and food fraud are under the umbrella of food protection. Only with the understanding of these issues can measures be effectively selected and implemented. Since China's economic reform, the food supply is no longer a problem of shortage. The unsafe food issues have been shifted from food security to food safety and food fraud. The reasons for the continued occurrence of food poisoning incidences in China can be categorized as subjective and objective factors.