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She mentioned that consumers demand correct information, and finally we hope to get a healthy environment, and the health of the next generation. Questions every consumer should care include: feel good to eat, nutrition is also very important, whereas health and safety is fundamental requirement.

According to Consumer Protection Act, the dealers share different responsibility with the manufacturers. The Ministry of Economy is in charge of hypermarkets management. Hypermarkets continue to cut down on the cost of goods, and sell to consumers at lower prices----meaning the use of the concept of "small profits and selling more" in order to lower the cost. The current approach taken by distributors is that they require manufacturers to offer unfairly low price, so adulteration and mislabeling start to appear. We must place greater responsibility on distributors, making it responsible for thorough quality checks. Labels must be clearly marked. In fact, labeling plays a very important part; we examine the problems through tests, but it requires a good management to handle it well. Consumers see a number and feel panic without knowing what the numbers mean. Therefore, toxic boundary is very important. To rebuild consumer confidence, consumers need to know the full information.

The next session is addressed by Professor Hung-Jeng Tsa from Department of Sociology National Sun Yat-sen University. He suggests that the so-called "risk" is a social and political reconstruction based on the probability distribution. Some seem very small probability, but is a big risk once it occurs. Even if the probability distribution is clear, but what is "significant level"? This is a considerable controversy; it is a social and political construction.

Experts decide public policy, and the media becomes a tool of social control by the government. In an ideal democratic society, with society expressing preferences through the media, it is society that controls the media and has the right of public policy referendum. However, in reality there are limited meaningful discussions on the media. In the process of democratic transition, the government does not have the corresponding ability of democratic governance. The people have no means of managing the government; the governance ability of civil society has not yet matured.

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