Study on Evolution of Food Safety Status and Supervision Policy—A System Based on Quantity, Quality, and Development Safety

Jianhui Yang and Yaoben Lin
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Jianhui Yang: China Institute of Regulation Research, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou 310018, China
Yaoben Lin: School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 23, 1-13

Abstract: This paper aims to construct an index system of evaluating food safety status, composed of three sub-systems—quantity safety, quality safety, and development safety. The index system is designed to collect annual data from 2005 to 2017 and run a chronological evaluation on China’s food safety status based on an entropy method. The evaluation results indicate that though China’s food safety supervision effect has been stably sound, the highest score is 0.7392 (in 2017). In addition, the proportions of the above three sub-systems were changed towards a balanced trend, with quality safety rising from less than 7% to 36.19% as a significant part of the evaluation of the effect of food safety supervision. In terms of single indexes, agrochemical input intensity and the ontology of agro-production safety have made relatively great contributions, while the indexes that embody price safety lack stability, and the roles of indexes related to development safety in the effect of food safety supervision have been increasingly recognized and valued.

Keywords: food safety; supervision; index system; chronological evaluation; entropy method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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