식품범죄 실태 및 대응체계 문제점 분석을 통한 정책적 제언:식품사범 단속체계를 중심으로

Abstract

It goes without saying that eating is so essential for human's existence that food safety and hygiene, as indicator to determine people's health and level of their lifestyle is national government's responsibility. Recently, impure and harmful foods are highly regarded as a main threat of people's health and it triggers social issue through different kinds of social media. Meanwhile, despite of government's regular regulation, it is hard to uproot unsanitary food product because of complicated distribution channels, inadequate condition of food factories and too many control agencies and multifarious laws. Moreover, general law enforcement authorities show their limitation to control food crime since the crime itself has characteristic profession. Consequently, this research recommends several political alternatives to put food crime an end while analysing on the food crime's actual condition and its countermeasure systems in Korea. First, the regulation systems of any violations in hygiene and food related laws must be improved. For the improvement, other factors are also needed such as increasing investigation members and training them specialized, efficiency oriented regulations, active leading toward a whistle blower, and strong self-regulation. Cooperation between the public police and the special judicial police ought to be founded and Food & Drug Safety Ministry and local governments should be strongly supported each other. Secondly, sanctions of food crime must be more strengthened. On the purpose of blocking a second offender, the 'strike out' and the 'follow up survey of foodstuff owner' systems must be considered to act. other punishing systems like raising fine, extra adding punishment, sentence extension, and penalty on juridical corporation are also needed. Finally, for an improvement of food safety management system, the Food Safety Police planning Committee under the Prime Minister and the Food & Drug Safety Ministry should be the main combinating controller to deal with not only food safety but also impure food regulations. It is necessary to improve various food safety basic laws and food sanitary laws in order to determine of which departments would take responsibility when food crimes happen and rapid countermeasure systems should be constructed.