完善我国食品安全法律体系

民以食为天，食以民为本。食品是人类赖以生存的基本物质。在改革开放的进程中，我国食品工业不仅面临着空前的机遇，也面对着严峻的挑战。这是因为食品工业的发展还面对着工业过程以外许多新的领域，对外开放中面对着世界各地贸易中的食品质量和价格的激烈竞争；对内的消费领域也面对着许多食品质量安全问题。有些地方的食品安全已成为消费者的“心头大患”。实践证明，解决社会发展中这个新产生的问题，除了要不断提高我国食品领域的科学技术水平外，还必须认真重视食品安全有关的社会管理和国家的法律制度的建设。就国家法律制度建设来说，既要看到现已形成的法律制度建设成果，更要认真分析目前已产生的食品安全法律体系存在的缺陷。在此基础上完善现有的食品法律法规体系和执法的步骤。

Improve the Legal System of Food Safety in China

People regard food as their prime want; hunger breeds discontentment. And food also is people oriented. Food is the basic material for human life. In the process of opening up and reform, Chinese food industry faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges. This is because the development of food industry faces many new industrial areas besides the food industrial process. In the process of opening up it has to compete with worldwide trades for food quality and price; as to the domestic consumption areas it is also facing a lot of food safety issues. In some areas food safety has become a ＂big concern＂ to consumers. Through practicing, it is found that in order to solve the new problem, not only the scientific techniques in food field has to be improved but also the construction of social management related to food safety and national legal system must be paid much attention to. For the national legal system, we must see the fruit of the established legal system, and we also should pay more concern to the existing defects of food safety legal system. Based upon this, improvement of the food legal system and enforcement procedures has to be made.