网络食品交易安全法律问题

Legal Issues of Online Food Trading Security

Compared with traditional physical store transactions, online food transactions involve more steps and a wider variety of participants, which integrate the virtuality of online transactions, and cross-temporal, cross-spatial, crossadministrative regional characteristics, resulting in highly complicated legal relationship of online food transactions, unsatisfactory supervision, and frequent violations of consumer rights. Online food transactions have brought new tasks and challenges to government regulation. The author believes that online food transaction security governance can not be independently completed by government regulatory agencies. In order to achieve satisfactory comprehensive management of online food transaction security, it is recommended that government supervision should dominate online food transaction security governance, force the third-party online food trading platform to establish a preface online food transaction information database and gives it some “quasi-regulatory” rights; at the same time, the government regulators should improve the construction of the network credit management mechanism, conducts credit classification supervision over online food operators, and guides industrial associations and consumers to actively participate in online food transaction security governance.