A Systematic Review of China’s Food Safety Management since Reform and Opening Up

ABSTRACT

In this study, 52 journal articles on food safety management were collected from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure database. A systematic review was conducted on the past forty years of various aspects of food safety management, such as annual publication trends and the distribution of periodicals across disciplines. The results show that since the reform and opening up (1978), food safety management has received increasing attention over time. Academic understanding of food safety management has increased, various disciplines are becoming more integrated, the number of people and institutions providing authoritative research has increased, support from various national and private funds has increased, and food safety management in China has become an influential academic field. In the future, the most urgent task for China’s food safety management is to restore the public’s trust in food safety, and the main solution is the shaping and publicizing of food safety ethics.

KEY WORDS:

• food safety
• food safety management
• reform and opening up

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Funding

This article is supported by the Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project of Anhui Province, China [AHSKQ2015D47]; the Key Program of Humanities and Social Sciences in College and Universities of Anhui Province, China [SK2016A0299]; Excellent Young Talents Program Project of Anhui Province, China [GXYQ2017010]; MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences [No. 19YJCZH037], and the Key Research Fund for Yong Teachers of Anhui University of Science and Technology [No. QNSK201801].