(英文话题)食品安全

四：On food safety 食品安全（Part 3 描述图片，话题讨论）

Version I

It is universally acknowledged that the safety of food is closely related to our

health. However, At the beginning of the year 2008, the low-quality milk products by SANLU Company killed many babies. Therefore, it is high time that we paid attention to this

grave issue.

There are several reasons for these serious problems. First and foremost, some companies,

to gain huge profits, make fake commodities or products of poor quality. In addition, laws and regulations have not been implemented in a strict way. Last but not least, the public especially customers from poor families ,are not alert enough to the safety of food.

In view of the graveness of the problem, effective measures must be taken before things

get worse. Firstly, it is imperative that relevant laws and regulation should be enforced

in a stringent way. Secondly, the public should be trained to be alert to food quality.

Only by taking these actions can the problem be tackled successfully in the nearest

future.

Version II

Food safety problem has become the focus of the global concern .In China, the food security problem really causes people 's concern. The food safety incidents that have occurred in China

over the past few years are still fresh in people’s minds: 2008’s melamine-poisoned milk powder ; gutter cooking oil (地沟油); Shua nghui’s clenbuterol-contaminated (瘦肉精) pork; dyed steamed buns (染色馒头) in Shanghai. Incidents like these are a source of constant concern for the public. Food safety is the most basic problem of people's livelihood, why in China the national food safety problems emerge in endlessly?

过去的几年间发生的重大食品安全事件仍然历历在目。2008年的三聚氰胺毒奶粉事件、之后的地沟油事件以及双汇瘦肉精事件、上海染色馒头事件都在不断触动公众脆弱的神经。

食品安全是最基本的民生问题，为什么在我国家食品安全问题层出不穷呢？

Science and technology level is relatively backward, the food industry standard relatively slowly. La ck of moral and credibility boost China's current food safety problems.

Environmental pollution leads to the risk of food safety remaining high. Meanwhile, p eople’s thought of utilitarianism is more serious which caused the food safety problems to appear

repeatedly.

科技水平仍相对落后, 食品行业标准相对滞后。道德滑坡、诚信缺失助推了中国当前的食品安全问题。环境污染导致食品安全风险性居高不下，人们的功利主义思想比较严重等原因，造成了食品安全问题屡现。

解决方案：

What food can be safely eaten?

Law is not perfect（法律不完善）

There are many disadvantages of China’s legal system about food safety, which has provided the

unqualified food with the living space. China's law provisions about food safety is too sweeping, difficult to operate, and these laws and regulations are seriously lagging. Many indicators are far below the international standard, and many important standards still haven’t come out, which has enacted those illegal manufacturers and enterprises.

中国关于食品安全的法律体系中存在着诸多弊端和问题，为不少问题食品的产生提供了生存的空间。中国的食品安全法律条文规定的过于笼统，难以操作，并且这些法律法规和标准体系严重滞后，现有的一些食品安全的标准水平规定偏低，许多指标远远低于国际标准，许多重要的标准至今还尚未制定出来，这就为那些不法厂商、企业违法生产超低标准、不合标准的食品提供了可乘之机。

Consumers’ lack of the consciousness of food safety（消费者食品知识匮乏）

First, consumers are lack of knowledge about food safety. In China, many consumers’ income level is low, without enough spending power, plus, the lack of corresponding common sense, so ,when buying, they are indifferent to food safety and often only pursue cheap products, regardless of the quality health problems. Consumers’ psychological state supports the problem of food sales opened the doors for some illegal companies..

Secondly, many consumers are lack of common sense about scientific consuming food, which could trigger some diseases and even cause food poisoning events.

首先，消费者缺乏购买安全食品的常识。中国众多的消费者由于收入水平低下，没有足够的消费能力，加上缺乏相应的常识，所以在购买食品时安全意识淡漠，往往只图便宜，不顾及食品的质量、卫生问题。在消费者这种心理的支持下，就为问题食品的销售打开了门路。

其次，很多消费者缺乏科学食用食物的常识，由此可能会引发一些疾病的产生，甚至导致食物中毒事件的发生。