식품분야 소비자정책의 평가와 과제

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to present the direction of promoting consumer policies in the food sector on the basis of evaluation of the operation system for current consumer policies and consumer survey. The consumer policies in the food sector are classified into transaction policies,safety policies, labelling policies, nutrition and diet policies, training and PR polices, and consumer remedy policies for damages. As the results of study are as follows. Food supply is unstable due to weather changes to result in highly fluctuating prices and it is necessary to lay emphasis on price stabilization in the transaction policies and to promote advanced distribution markets, and consumers should be protected in cyber transactions. The food safety policies are the sector which consumers are highly interested in. It is thus necessary to construct a system for expanding preventive safety control, enhancing analysis of harms, encouraging food recall,and sharing information harmful to food. For improving the food labelling policies, it is necessary to integrate related regulations and to operate the labelling regulations and enforcement proceedings. Because the food policies and nutrition policies are closely related, it is, in particular, necessary to construct a comprehensive promotion system and food support policies for vulnerable people should be established. Because training consumers and PR related to food is the sector consumers are least satisfied with, it is thus necessary to overhaul related regulations in each related law and to integrate and operate the route for providing food information to consumers and thus to improve consumer's reliability and policy effect. It is necessary to integrate the route for overhauling the criteria for solving disputes in the food market and efficient consultation of public grievance, and to examine plans for compensating for collective damages.