TITLE:
A Research on Mechanisms and Countermeasures of the Food Safety Incidents Occurring on Food Supply Chain
AUTHORS:
Yongsheng Liu, Qingnan Zhang, Qingqing Li
KEYWORDS:
Food Supply Chain, Food Safety, Mechanism
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Service Science and Management,
Vol.7 No.4,
August
29,
2014
ABSTRACT:
In recent
years, food safety problems have become increasingly serious in China, and
major food safety accidents have seriously affected people’s daily lives,
having negative influences on the healthy development of the food industry and
the whole economy. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze existing problems of
food safety, further study the main cause of frequent incidents of food safety,
and propose the corresponding countermeasures. In this paper, food safety
incidents occurring from 2009 to 2013 are taken as the research objects, and
the food supply chain is divided into five links. Then comprehensive analyses
of food category are made, the main responsibility and the possible causes for
food safety accidents occurring on each food supply chain links, aiming at
analyzing the accident mechanism and proposing improvement strategies.