Food safety management in China : a perspective from food quality control system In recent years China has taken a number of effective measures to strengthen the supervision of food quality and safety but food safety incidents still occur sometimes. The recurrence and intractability of such incidents suggest that in addition to the imperfect supervision system the greatest obstacle to Chinas food quality safety management is that Chinas farm to fork food supply chain has too many stages the members on the supply chain have not formed a stable strategic and cooperative relation and on the other hand during the transitional period some practitioners lack social r