Measuring the Effect of Food Safety Incidents on China'sFood export: a Case Study on Aquatic Products

摘要

In 2007 there were a number of food safety incidents with Chinese exports that garnered media attention worldwide. There were widespread calls for tightening of regulatory barriers or outright bans on imports of Chinese foods including aquatic products. Consumer confidence in Chinese foods suffered a serious decline and exports fell. The paper will take aquatic products as an example to analyze and comment on the effect of food incidents on China's food export from three respects including the exporting growths, the exporting markets structure and the exporting species of aquatic products. The main problems on the China's aquatic product safety will also be discussed in this paper. The Chinese government has endeavoured to improve aquatic product quality and safety, issuing a series of new regulations on controlling aquatic product quality and safety.