Abstract: With China stepping into a risky society, the previous legislative stipulation and judicial means are inadequate in dealing with food safety problems. In order to effectively safeguard food safety, the criminal law, as the last legal defender for a society, should first change in its basic concepts, that is, from crime-oriented to safety-oriented criminal law, from passive judgment to previous intervention, and from individual to social orientation, etc.. Furthermore, for the specific stipulation of legal provisions, priorities should be given to the agreement of articles between Criminal Law and Food Safety Law, the criminal legislation for food safety, and the standard criminal identification of crimes concerning food safety.