关于食品安全问题的经济学论文

The Food-Safety Problem s

Nowadays, many different kinds of foods are reported to be bad for our health. The food-safety problems are related to our daily life and national people is worrying about it.

The food-safety problems is that some lawless food producers go against their conscience and morality to manufacture much inferior food and sell them to the market so as to achieve the most profits. They are not concerned with the consumer’s safety and they take risk of law’s sanction to resolutely produce those illegal foods which make national consumers are in panic and people doubt whether domestic foods is reliable. Though national related organization is severely striking them, events like those are still coming up. Some food-safety problems are as followed.

In April 2011, many supermarkets in Shanghai were reported to sell dyeing Steamed breads. The manufacturers added preservatives to prevent the breads become moldy and they changed the production date again and again. There are thirty thousand of problem Steamed breads send to thirty different supermarkets such as Hualian and Diya supermarkets to sell every day. In Wenzhou of Zhejiang province, the related department found an illegal factory which made the dyeing Steamed breads.From March 22 to April 14 2011,this factory sold about 190 thousand of dyeing Steamed breads to about 10 thousand of schools.

CCTV reported that on March 15,2011, the farm which raise the pigs in mengzhou of Henan province used brown meat essence to feed pigs and they sold those pork to Shuanghui company，finally sold to customer. In addition to these events，there still have many food-safety problems, such as melamine problem，small lobsters event in Nanjing and so on.

The analysis of the food-safety problems are as follows.

1. Food manufacturers add preservatives to prevent the breads

become moldy and use brown meat essence to feed pigs, this

behavior reflect economics principle 1:People face trade-offs, the

manufacturer want to get the most profits and must decrease the cost

of productions, so finally they choose to make much more money and

regardless of people’s safety and rights.

2. In order to pay less cost and get more profits, the manufacturer

gives up the security guarantee and reputation to people, these two

things are their intangible cost. It reflects economics principle 2: The

cost of something is what you give up to get it.

3. When those foods problems came up, people didn’t buy the

breads and Shuanghui’s hams or they bought little. People’s

behavior will affect the breads an d hams’ market. It reflects

economics principle 4: People respond to incentives.

4. Sometimes government’s incentives in one hand is to

strengthen the food-safety management, in other hand, some

government policies lead to a rise of cost and also can control some