我国保健食品安全协同治理法律问题探析

Analysis of Legal Issues on Collaborative Management of Health Food Safety in China

针对我国保健食品安全领域问题频发的现状,首先分析了保健食品安全协同治理的必要性,然后指出我国保健食品协同治理机制中存在的问题,包括对保健食品企业进行监管和执法的措施有待完善、对保健食品消费者的教育和保护机制尚未健全等,最后针对上述问题,提出完善建议。一方面,应完善对保健食品虚假宣传和传销等不合规行为的监管机制(包括全面、系统地建立对保健食品企业的食品安全合规监管制度,在保健食品安全协同治理机制中引入行政和解制度);另一方面,健全对保健食品消费者的教育和保护机制:其一,在保健食品主要监管部门的官方媒体上做好消费者教育工作;其二,将行政和解过程中取得的和解金全部或者部分地补偿给权益受损害的消费者并奖励举报保健食品企业不合规行为的消费者等社会公众;其三,将“默示加入,明示退出”的集团诉讼制度引入保健食品民事诉讼领域,并最终形成多方共同积极参与的保健食品安全协同治理机制。

In view of the frequent occurrence of problems in the field of health food safety in China,the author analyzes the necessity of collaborative management of health food safety,and points out that there exist problems in China’s coordinative management mechanism for health foods,including the facts that the measures for supervision over and law enforcement on health food industries need to be improved,and the education and protection mechanism for health food consumers are imperfect.Moreover,the author puts forward some suggestions to improve these problems.First,the mechanism of supervision over non-compliance activities,such as false claims and pyramid scheme in the field of health food marketing should be improved by establishing a comprehensive compliance supervision system for health food enterprises,and introducing an administrative settlement system into the collaborative governance mechanism of health food safety.Second,a sound education and protection mechanism for health food consumers should be established.More specifically,firstly,the major supervision departments should take solid action in the work of consumer education through their official media channels;secondly,the proceeds from an administrative settlement should be wholly or partially used to compensate injured consumers and people who expose non-compliance activities of health food enterprises;thirdly,the class action system should be introduced into the field of health food safety civil procedure to form a health food safety collaborative governance mechanism in which all parties actively participate.