Genetically modified food gave rise to several controversies since it came into being. The clash of international GMF legislation is rooted in the divergence of the EU and the US legislation, which leads to the divergence of the WTO and Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and indirectly influences the legislative choice of developing countries. Like other developing countries, China also faces lots of challenges including lag in genetically modified organism technology, disadvantage caused by invisible private standard, technical control of GMO companies in developed countries and low level of involvement of the public. In recent years, China adopts its own policy on GMO by developing GM technology cautiously. The legislative situation in China fall far behind domestic research and commercial production necessity. China has revised several existing legislations. Although there is far from perfect, it makes great progress. In the future, China is expected to be more active, positive and open towards GMO.

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.

한국과 중국 간에 FTA가 발효됨에 따라 양국 간의 교역량이 증대될 것임은 자명한 사실 이다. 특히 국민의 건강 및 안전과 밀접한 관련이 있는 농산물 등 식품안전분야의 교역은 양 국 간에 엄격한 검사·검역 체계를 수립하고 양국의 정책 및 제도의 조화를 도모함으로써 신 뢰를 정착시키고 FTA의 긍정적인 효과를 향유하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. 본 연구의 목적은 한국과 중국의 식품안전규제제도에서 양국 간의 식품안전정책의 차이점 과 유사점을 분석하여 상호 윈윈(win-win)할 수 있는 식품안전정책을 도출하고 제도의 조화 를 모색하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 제2장에서는 WTO 및 FTA체제하에서 식품안전과 관련된 국제적인 규범을 고찰하고, 제3장에서는 한국과 중국의 식품안전정책을 상호 비교 분석한다. 제4장에서는 양국이 경험한 식품안전과 관련한 사례를 분석하여 향후 시사점을 도출하고자 한다. 마지막으로 결론에서는 FTA발효에 따른 양국 간의 식품안전 및 정책의 조화가능성을 제시하고자 한다.