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Quantitative Analysis of Food Safety Policy—Based on Text Mining Methods

Authors :
Cen Song
Jiaming Guo
Fatemeh Gholizadeh
Jun Zhuang
Source :
Foods, Vol 11, Iss 21, p 3421 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2022.

Abstract

Recently, food safety and cold chain food have been closely related to the epidemic. The party and the state have intensified efforts to solve food safety problems and prevent possible epidemic risks. China has issued a series of policies and plans to strengthen food safety supervision to improve the food safety policy system. To our knowledge, little work has studied policy problems of food safety with in-depth quantitative analysis for an extended period. In accordance with the different national policies and regulations for food safety, this paper fills the gap by analyzing the policies and comparing the central and local policies issued in China from 2007–2022. In addition, the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model and K-Means clustering model are constructed to analyze the content of food safety policies and identify hot topics. Finally, a quantitative analysis of China’s food safety policies is made from four aspects: the number of policy release years, the distribution area, the range of action, and the affiliated institutions. The results show that: (a) there is a partial surge in food safety policies issued in 2007, 2011, and 2017; (b) the local food safety policy has a high inheritance to the central policy content, and the trends of annual publication number are highly consistent; (c) the innovation of different policy contents in the region have their own characteristics; (d) the proportion of compulsory and capacity policies is much more significant than that of other types of policies. This paper provides some novel insights into food safety policies.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
23048158
Volume :
11
Issue :
21
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Foods
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.127d1dbeb3c64c368f914fd2e636c21d
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11213421