Abstract
Abstract
The Food Safety Law of China, which was updated and revised in 2015, has clarified the responsibility system for third-party platform providers of the online food trade, which provides a new way to supervise online food safety in China. It is pioneering in the field of food safety in China and even worldwide. An analysis of the system is given in this article. The article holds that there are still issues remaining to be solved, including the ambiguity of certain provisions of the law, the lack of the internal motivation of the third-party platform provider to carry out the duty of review, an unclear division of responsibility between the third-party platform provider and the food safety supervision authority. In order to further perfect the responsibility system for third-party platform providers, we need to perfect the laws and regulations in order to mend the legal loopholes, construct the prevention system and the reward reporting system, adhere to the concept of “social co-governance,” and give free rein to the important role of the third-party platform provider.
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