식품법의 체계적 지위

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find an improvement for the structure food law for efficiently administering food law by examining the food laws. Food laws are administered in several government departments. This results in a lack of specialty, unity, and responsibility which could be accomplished in a single government department in implementing food laws. There are problems in the structure of food law. Various departments of government have their own food laws and are in charge of many official services, causing unnecessary cost and resource spending by bringing about redundancy and distribution of regulation. And food labeling law is separately operated in commodity units and the scope of target commodity is not clearly defined, thus making unclear the locus of responsible agency when coming about food accidents. Regulation of food law of each department is an obstacle to constructing mutual sharing among different agencies. But currently, there is no food fundamental law covering all foods, and it is scattered according to the competent authorities. Food laws related to safety management are independently worked in several departments. As a main problem of food law structure, food manufacturers, processors, and food hospitality industries indicate that there are too many related laws, whereas traditional food industries, agricultural management groups and consumer groups point out that food laws and departments are dispersed. For a rational improvement of food law operation law revision should be regularly enforced to minimize unnecessary cost and make law demander, such as consumers and food companies, cope with new law environment.