食品监管渎职罪的若干疑难问题解析

食品监管渎职罪是《刑法修正案（八）》新增的一个渎职罪。从立法规定看,本罪的实行行为表现为滥用职权行为或者玩忽职守行为。作为本罪的构成要件,发生重大食品安全事故或者造成其他严重后果是本罪的渎职结果,其与行为人的渎职行为具有刑法上的因果关系是行为人承担本罪刑事责任的客观根据。尽管立法没有对本罪的主观罪过形式作出明确规定,但其并不是复合罪过形式,仍然是单一罪过形式,因此,在具体处理案件时,应结合其实行行为来确定行为人的罪过形式。     

加强食品行业协会自律的必要性及实现路径

近几年来,我国频发的食品安全事故反映出政府监管的严重不足,即单靠政府的监管不能确保食品安全,因此,应积极发挥食品行业协会的自律作用,以形成食品行业内部的问题自行解决的氛围。为此,应进一步增强食品行业协会的独立性,促进食品行业协会自律职能的有效履行,加强政府对食品行业协会自律的监管。     

论食品安全监督过失责任

监督过失是指处于放置危险状态的上位监督者以及管理者地位的人违反监督、管理义务,对其应当避免的危害结果发生的过失心理状态。危惧感说是食品生产经营管理者负监督过失责任的理论依据。根据危惧感说,食品生产经营者处于保证人的地位,监督管理者不适用信赖原则。在确定食品生产经营者的注意义务时,一定要将其在立场上与消费者相对立的同生产、销售等市场运作过程相联系的特殊性作为最基本的出发点。     

政府采购药品集中招投标制度存在的问题及改善措施——以广东省为例

近年来，随着人民生活水平的提高，食品和药品的安全问题也备受重视。2012年4月，青海各拉丹东等9家药厂生产的13种胶囊剂被检测出铬超标，更令人震惊的是，经媒体曝光这些企业涉嫌用皮革废料制作药用胶囊。“以价定论”的药品招投标制度被认为是导致这种现象的根本原因。为解决药品采购中的“寻租”问题，我国自2000年起开始实行药品集中招投标制度，并在2007年出现了以“挂网竞价限价”为主要特点的“广东模式”，并在全国范围内进行推广，但这种模式仍有其弊端。我们将从博弈论角度分析，利用支付矩阵证明这种模式下，企业为中标压低报价，从而产生压低成本的动因。本文将以广东省为例，研究我国现存药品招投标制度中的利弊，并以数据分析作为依托，说明政府历年的药品招投标价格和企业成本价格之间的关系，并给出完善现存药品招投标制度的建议。     

我国文化大发展大繁荣的历史机遇与挑战

21世纪,文化的重要性越来越凸显出来,国家的竞争归根结底是文化的竞争,文化也是综合国力中最重要、最为活跃的要素之一。改革开放以来党的一系列文化建设战略部署,尤其是十八大关于建设社会主义文化强国的论述,为我国的文化发展指明了方向。面对历史的机遇与挑战,我们必须清醒地认识到:推动我国文化大发展大繁荣刻不容缓,是我们实现中华民族的伟大复兴梦想的必由之路。     

弱者安全权的平衡与供给

弱者安全权是弱者生存和发展的前提,当弱者由于自身的脆弱性与不利性不能实现充分的安全自力救济时,必须建立平衡的供给结构。弱者的能力贫困是弱者安全能力不足的主要原因,对能力贫困实行补助,是基于权利位阶理论推导出的安全权优先原则以及基于社会契约理论推导出的倾斜性保护原则。弱者的安全权行使是一个悖论,弱者往往会成为事实与想象中的安全事件制造者,实施硬暴力以积极掠夺或利用弱者身份消极抵抗。弱者的安全困境在于弱者安全感的缺失与常规安全供给不足,弱者很难实现身份转化与充分信息下的策略选择。应兼采安全规范的立法差别化与司法和执法均等化,推动以公民身份和社区参与为内容的安全权力重组。     

Food Brexit and Chlorinated Chicken: A Microcosm of Wider Food Problems

This paper situates food safety concerns raised in the Brexit debate since the referendum and suggests that, although the issue of chlorinated chicken entered public discourse, it represents wider concerns about food safety standards. Food safety has had high resonance in the UK since the 1980s, but Brexit shows how it connects to wider concerns also raised about Brexit, such as impacts on healthcare, the effects of austerity on food poverty, the limitations of low waged employment, concerns about migration and labour markets, and regional economic disparities. Brexit’s impact on the UK food system is immense because food has been highly integrated into EU governance. While food standards can be portrayed as a single narrow issue, the paper suggests it provides a useful lens with which to examine, interrogate and comprehend these wider Brexit politics. The complex realities of food politics and wider food system dynamics undermine any simplistic political narrative of ‘taking back control’.     

NHS Inquiries and the Problem of Culture

If inquiries are about learning the lessons of the past, why do they appear to find the same failings time and again? Bristol, Mid Staffordshire, Morecambe Bay, Liverpool Community Health are all examples of where culture went wrong. The lack of learning from inquiries is a prominent concern and one raised elsewhere in this issue. In this article, I explore why it might be that culture is repeatedly found to be the cause of healthcare failures. I start by reviewing perspectives on what culture is and the degree to which it is possible change it. I examine how culture was described in the Bristol, Mid Staffordshire, Morecambe Bay and Liverpool inquiries and question whether these are the same cultures, with the same problems, or whether they are different. I discuss possible explanations for apparent similarities, describe how cultural change occurs and conclude by drawing out the implications of focussing on culture as a threat to patient safety.     

Regulatory capitalism and its discontents: Bilateral interdependence and the adaptability of regulatory styles

The expansion of global trade has produced new challenges for the effective governance of product safety. We argue that many of these challenges arise at the bilateral level from the interaction of more or less adaptable national regulatory styles. When regulatory styles are unadaptable they produce gaps in risk management, slow and contested resolutions to crises, and limited regulatory cooperation. To examine these claims empirically, we study bilateral food safety regulation in four major exporter–importer dyads: China–Japan; Canada–United States (US), China–European Union (EU), and the US–Japan. The China–Japan dyad is the most adaptable, combining China's “export segmentation” regulatory style with Japan's strongly “risk‐averse, interventionist” style. The Canada–US dyad operates effectively, bringing together Canada's “global market–conforming” regulatory style with the US strategy of “sovereign regulator.” The China–EU dyad is less adaptable because the EU's “harmonization” regulatory style makes it difficult for the EU to adapt to the weaknesses of the Chinese food safety system. Finally, the US's sovereign regulator style clashes with Japan's interventionist style, making them the least adaptable of the four dyads. The paper concludes with a discussion of the broader relevance of our findings for the development of regulatory capitalism.     

Protecting the living: Managerialism and professional turf wars in risk regulatory death investigations

This paper demonstrates how general trends in the management of public institutions, and a specific turf war between the doctors and lawyers in Ontario, Canada, have combined to shape an important risk regulatory decisionmaking process: the coroner's inquest. Drawing on ethnographic evidence, I show how the priorities of managerialism, and the collateral effects of physician coroners battling with lawyers, have reduced the number of public inquests convened in Ontario by 80 per cent over a 20‐year period. Where many public safety decisions affecting the province's legal, policy, and physical environments were once made at public inquests, they appear now more likely to be made in private. The paper examines the implications of reduced public participation in the analysis of, and response to, death.