Characteristics of food safety regulatory system of USA and EU and its enlightenment to our country

Food safety is a public health problem around the world. Continuous malignant food safety accidents caused higher attention among people. The problem of food safety has become one of the key factors for China's competitiveness in food industry and agriculture, thus the Chinese government should attach more importance to the management of food safety regulatory system and strengthen it, in order to improve the effect and efficiency of food safety regulation. This review introduces the characteristics of the food safety regulatory system of USA and EU. At the same time, combined with China's current shortcomings and deficiencies in food safety regulatory system, the paper proposes several valuable suggestions based on the experience of EU and the United States. To be more specific, the Chinese government can improve China's food safety regulatory system through streamlining the regulatory institutions, completing the regulation system, integrating the inspection system and building the information system.