Risk assessment in Chinese food safety

Liu, Shan; Xie, Zhihui; Zhang, Weiwei; Cao, Xia; Pei, Xiaofang

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.06.038

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“…Note that the value of H is closer to 0.5 than to 1. This is consistent with the fact that more incidents were caused by human errors instead of intentional behaviours (Liu et al, 2013).…”

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Food safety incidents in Beijing: occurrence patterns, causes and wider social implications

Liu¹,

Yang²,

Gao³

et al. 2015

Palgrave Commun

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Food safety incidents have the potential to result in a range of adverse health effects, including diarrhoeal diseases and various forms of cancer. Furthermore, they also have a disruptive effect on the economy, trade and tourism. As Beijing strives to become a global centre of politics, economy and culture, serious food safety incidents continue to be frequently reported in the city. It is clear that a large number of food safety incidents, such as those that have occurred in China, and in some other parts of the world, cannot be fully tackled by means of conventional analysis, which focuses on biological and chemical factors, but which often ignores potential human factors (which may be intentional in nature). In this article, we dynamically examine the time intervals between successive distinct food safety incidents that were mainly caused by human factors. Our intention is to identify information that could be of use to governmental and other bodies in efforts to curb the occurrence of food safety incidents. We analyse data spanning a 10-year period from 2004 to 2013, during which time 295 food safety incidents occurred in Beijing. We find that the occurrence of food safety incidents was drastically different from Poisson processes, suggesting that their causes may have been systemic in nature. We further found that the sequence of time intervals had persistent long-range correlations, characterized by a Hurst parameter of H = 0.65, suggesting that food safety incidents occurred in bursts. Finally, we propose scenarios that may be responsible for these long-range correlations. Our quantitative findings may not only hold in Beijing and elsewhere in China, but also in other parts of the world where human factors are an important cause of food safety incidents. In all those situations, our proposed scenarios for long-range correlations may be used as part of efforts to devise strategies to curb or prevent future food safety incidents.

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“…Note that the value of H is closer to 0.5 than to 1. This is consistent with the fact that more incidents were caused by human errors instead of intentional behaviours (Liu et al, 2013).…”

Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 87%

“…This includes improving techniques for food preservation and food hygiene, introducing advanced detection techniques to examine food safety issues, and developing food safety traceability systems (Jia and Jukes, 2013;Liu et al, 2013). Finally, there is scope to improve food safety education.…”

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Food safety incidents in Beijing: occurrence patterns, causes and wider social implications

Liu¹,

Yang²,

Gao³

et al. 2015

Palgrave Commun

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“…There are 17 provinces with food contaminant surveillance systems and 22 provinces with foodborne disease surveillance systems out of the 23 provinces. These systems evaluate 60 varieties of food, and 79 common chemical contaminants and pathogens (Liu, Xie, Zhang, Cao, & Pei, 2013). The presence of pesticide residues in vegetables has been extensively characterized in China.…”

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Monitoring and dietary exposure assessment of pesticide residues in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) in Hainan, China

Duan

Guan

et al. 2016

Food Control

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“…There exists a rich literature showing that market powers such as the EU and the United States can exert regulatory influences (Damro, ; Drezner, ; Drogué & DeMaria, ; Kelemen & Vogel, ; Meunier & Nicolaïdis, ; Schulze & Tosun, ; Tosun, ; Zach et al, ), but they tend to pay less attention to the domestic political processes in the countries affected by (the threat of) trade restrictions. We are interested in the political processes taking place in Brazil in response to import restrictions instituted by the EU (Liu, Xie, Zhang, Cao, & Pei, ; Pei et al, ).…”

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Import Restrictions and Food‐Safety Regulations: Insight from Brazil

Tosun¹,

Marcondes²

2016

Latin American Policy

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Since the 1980s, developing countries have been implementing radical reforms to increase their competitiveness in the global economy. While the increased export orientation has had positive effects on economic growth in many countries, it has also left them susceptible to external attempts to influence domestic regulatory standards. In this article, we explore a specific case that illustrates how domestic actors cope with such external pressures for regulatory reforms. We examine how domestic policymakers received the European Union's import ban on natural honey produced in Brazil and the actions they took in an attempt to have the ban lifted. The import ban triggered the creation of a new institution, the Honey Chamber, which helped to coordinate the interests of different sectoral actors, thereby helping to overcome institutional fragmentation. Once established, the new institution facilitated the revision of the existing regulatory standards and paved the way for the more‐rigorous monitoring of residues in honey.

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Risk assessment in Chinese food safety

Cited by 38 publications

References 33 publications

Food safety incidents in Beijing: occurrence patterns, causes and wider social implications

Food safety incidents in Beijing: occurrence patterns, causes and wider social implications

Monitoring and dietary exposure assessment of pesticide residues in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) in Hainan, China

Import Restrictions and Food‐Safety Regulations: Insight from Brazil

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