食品安全风险评估公众参与的制度化建构

The Institutional Construction of Public Participation in the Food Safety Risk Assessment

现代科技使人类进入德国社会学家贝克所言的"风险社会"。食品安全风险就是诸多风险之一,行政机关需要对食品安全风险进行规制,而食品安全风险评估是进行风险规制的前提。一般认为食品安全风险评估是纯粹科学事务,仅靠科学专家的参与即可,法律只需保证由相关专家参与其中。然而,科学具有不确定性,专家亦有其局限,必须引入公众参与机制以弥补科学、专家的缺陷,进行制度化的设计,包括前提性制度、核心制度、事后制度。

Modem technology makes mankind enters the German sociologist Beck said the ＂risk society.＂ Food safety risk is one of a number of risks, the need for the executive to regulate food safety risks and food safety risk assessment is a prerequisite for risk regulation. Generally believed that food safety risk assessment is purely scientific affairs, science alone can the participation of experts, legal only to ensure the participation of experts from the relevant. However, scientific uncertainty, the expert also has its limitations, public participation mechanisms must be introduced to compensate for scientific experts defects institutionalize design, including prerequisite system, the core system, the system afterwards.