The Chinese toxic milk scandal raised tremendous global concerns about food safety in China. To repair the tarnished reputation of domestic food production, Chinese authorities focused on compulsory food safety liability insurance. Unfortunately, the introduction of compulsory food safety liability insurance in the Food Safety Law of the PRC has been delayed by the disagreements of Chinese legal scholars. Chinese legal scholars have examined the legitimacy of compulsory food safety liability insurance in China mainly from the standpoint of domestic laws. The valuable insight of international laws has been ignored by them. This article attempts to fill this research gap by scrutinizing the Chinese endeavor of launching compulsory food safety liability insurance through the joint perspective of public and private international law. It further demonstrates that the ideology of human rights of public international law has already penetrated into the body of broadly-interpreted private international law.

I. Introduction
 II. The Right to Safe Food in the Domain ofInternational Human Rights Law
 III. Remedial Measures for Violations of the Rightto Safe Food in China: Flaws and CFSLI
  A. Mass Tort Compensation Funds
  B. Government Bailout
  C. Litigation
 IV. The WTO Legal Regime of Consumer Protection
 V. The Commodity Export Inspection Systemin China: Flaws and CFSLI
  A. Personnel Quota and Limited Human Resources
  B. Assorted Standards and Local Interests
 VI. Conclusion

• Lin Zhang(Professor of Law at Fujian Normal University School of Law and Adjunct Professor at Korea University School of Law.)