불량식품 사건발생 실태와 경찰의 위해방지 대책

Abstract

regulatory activities of recent harmful food case containing toxic materials, especiallychemical hazard(food additives, industrial chemicals, etc). When people get sick from food poisoning by the toxic chemicals, generally theharmfulness to human health comes out as distinctive features like acute poisoning andchronic addiction. Furthermore it takes place regardless of season, once it occurs, there isa high possibility of appearance on a large scale. In spite of such a recurrent harmful food case the problem of the police activities, theywork harder to counter the false advertising and food labeling violation than harmful fooditself. In addition they fall short of food safety expectations for the vulnerable includingchildren, the old and the weak, pregnant women and nursing mothers. They are facedwith a bottleneck in the disposal of residual harmful food as well. In the perspective of risk prevention and crackdown against harmful food, this studysuggests the phased countermeasure which passes through four stages in foodcirculation. That is, the first is a decrease of chemical hazard by thorough identificationof examination documents in the generation stage of toxic materials. The second iscritical attention to high risk consumer group in the prevention stage of disease. Thethird is more intensive control over harmful food group containing toxic materials in thecrackdown stage of harmful food. The fourth is timely disposal measure against thespread of the rest harmful food in the follow-up stage of crackdown.