Current status of foreign food safety liability insurance and its reference for our country

Food safety is a major concern impacting most people′s daily life.Food safety liability insurance is an important tool of food safety management.In this paper, food safety legal system, supervision system and food safety liability insurance operation status of USA, Germany, Japan, Taiwan (China), are investigated.In the face of current problems in our country, such as low coverage of food safety liability insurance, lack of effectiveness in food safety management system, a systematic methodology is proposed to construct food safety liability insurance system of our country, including legislation to promote liability insurance for food safety, promoting food enterprises to strengthen safety management through rate leverage, guiding insurance companies to provide expert service, etc.