Supply chain refers to the behavioral system composed of interrelated logistics and information flow across organizational boundaries. Food supply chain is a network system of food production and supply constituted by agriculture, food processing industry and logistics and distribution industry and other related enterprises. Generally speaking, the food supply chain consists of different links and organizational carriers: pre-production of seeds, feed, fertilizers, pesticides and other means of production of the supply chain (farmers' suppliers), production in the planting and raising of production links (farmers), food processing enterprises, food through the distribution of enterprises for packaging, storage and distribution to the various retailers or restaurants, and finally reached the hands of consumers.

The concept of integrated food supply chain management emerged in Europe, which views the supply chain as a whole, the supply chain to implement integrated planning, cooperation and control of commodity processes. Its core content is quality certification and tracking management. Unlike general supply chain management, integrated food supply chain management must be to ensure safety as the primary goal, to protect the food safety of the whole society, need to strengthen the safety management in all aspects of the food supply chain, that is to say, the safety of food has become the food supply chain of each participant *** with the ensure the responsibility of the public ****. The idea of integrated supply chain management provides a basic idea for solving the safety problems in the food supply chain.