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FosqNet: a prototype food quality and safety management system for China

ZHANG, TANGYAO ( 2014)

China has achieved remarkable successes since 1978. However, China is facing some serious issues. Food quality and safety is one of them. The status of food quality and safety is complicated and difficult to supervise. Lack of transparency have led to loss of consumer confidences. The Chinese government has taken actions to improve the food quality and safety as well as restore the consumer confidences. These initiatives are working, but are far from being satisfactory. This thesis reviews the situation and introduced a possible solution: the FosqNet. This is a novel food quality and safety management system focusing on risk communication. The FosqNet has a hybrid peer-to-peer electronic network communication architecture. This architecture provides a secured, transparent and high efficient communication channel. The FosqNet App is the main interface of FosqNet which is a user-friendly and private smartphone application. The concept of FosqNet is independence, neutrality and openness. It could benefit all users who can be ordinary people or professionals. This thesis also suggests that the net neutrality principles are important considerations for the development of FosqNet.