Food safety is always a hot issue of people's livelihood in our country. However, under the deterrent of existing laws and regulations, food safety problems are still emerging in an incessant fashion. However, under the deterrent of existing laws and regulations, food safety problems are still emerging in an incessant fashion. In 2022, the 315 Gala which produced by China Central Television featured Hunan Chaqi Vegetable Industry Co Ltd., in which the double standard of export and domestic sales caused heated discussion, and this incident also triggered a national crisis of confidence in food safety again. How to solve the problem of double standards of food enterprises? How to improve public trust in food safety? How to standardize the food safety standards? The above problems can be well explained from the perspective of transaction costs. Governments, enterprises and consumers all choose lower transaction costs, resulting in food safety standards that are not in line with the requirements of the international food safety standards. This paper will discuss the choices made by the government, enterprises and consumers in the face of food safety issues and the consequences, and put forward brief measures to improve the supervision standards of food safety.

Li Yihui. Exploring China's Food Safety Problems and Solution from the Perspective of Transaction Costs: Taking the Incident of Earth Pit Pickled Cabbage as an Example. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 6: 15-21. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2024.060603.

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