The factors affecting food safety are:

1. Heavy industry and agricultural and sideline factors:

The vigorous development of heavy industry is an important source of environmental pollution and an important factor affecting food safety. In the process of heavy industry production, air pollution and substandard wastewater and sewage are absorbed by crops, and the products produced and processed themselves contain certain chemical components.

2. Micro-biological factors:

The vitality and fecundity of micro-organisms in nature are quite strong. There are so many kinds and ranges of microorganisms that it is impossible to calculate them by numbers. In fact, many products are processed and produced by bacteria. Such as vinegar and monosodium glutamate.

3. Factors of food additives:

Food additives are an important "role" in the food industry, which can improve the color, smell and taste of food and prolong the shelf life. Food additives mainly include colorants, preservatives, sweeteners, acidulants, chromogens, bleaches and preservatives. In the process of food processing, it is safe to add a certain amount of food additives to human body, and the amount of food additives is clearly stipulated in national standards and industry standards.

4. Genetically modified factors:

Genetically modified food refers to food in which (non-same species) foreign genes are embedded in the genome of a species by genetic engineering (transgenic) technology. As a new biotechnological means, transgenic technology is immature and uncertain, which inevitably makes the safety of genetically modified food become the focus of attention.

Measures to ensure food safety are as follows:

1. Producers and sellers must ensure food quality and safety, pay attention to honesty, act according to conscience, turn food enterprises' responsibility for food safety into their own consciousness, and solve problems from the source.

2. A good food safety supervision system is an important guarantee to ensure food safety. All departments should cooperate with each other and implement it layer by layer, and should accept the supervision of the people at any time. The results of administrative law enforcement should be made public to the people.

3. Improve China's food safety standards as soon as possible, improve the laws and regulations on food safety, be strict with them, and constrain enterprises to ensure the food is qualified.

4. Increase the investment in the research and application of food inspection, control the occurrence of food safety problems, and establish a relatively perfect food safety emergency handling system to reduce the harm of food safety accidents and protect the interests of the people.

5. Establish a safety education and publicity system, so that consumers, as the terminal audience of food safety, can pay more attention to and know about food safety, and learn to use laws to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.

6. use the internet of things technology to monitor the raw materials, production process, logistics, sales and other aspects of food, and establish a food traceability system, so that food can be traced, and any link that goes wrong can be recalled in time.

to sum up, we can strengthen food safety publicity and education, establish food safety incentive mechanism, etc., to improve public awareness and attention to food safety and promote the overall improvement of food safety level.

Legal basis:

Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 2

This Law shall be observed when engaging in the following activities within the territory of the People's Republic of China:

(1) Food production and processing (hereinafter referred to as food production), food sales and catering services (hereinafter referred to as food business);

(2) production and operation of food additives;

(3) the production and operation of packaging materials, containers, detergents and disinfectants used for food and tools and equipment used for food production and operation (hereinafter referred to as food-related products);

(4) food producers and operators use food additives and food-related products;

(5) storage and transportation of food;

(6) Safety management of food, food additives and food-related products.