近年来,随着瘦肉精、苏丹红、福寿螺、“三鹿奶粉”等一系列事件的曝光,食品安全问题被推到了风口浪尖,成为备受公众注目的焦点。在此过程中,我国媒体也加大了对食品安全问题的报道力度,成为政府、企业、消费者之间进行信息沟通的重要桥梁。本文将食品安全问题置于全球“风险社会”的大背景下,分析了当前我国食品安全领域媒体信息传播的现状、问题以及这些问题出现的原因,并进一步对媒体所应承担的角色和功能进行了深入探讨。 In recent years, food safety issues have been pushed to the cusp with the exposure of a series of incidents such as clenbuterol, Sudan red, snails, and “Sanlu milk powder.” This has become the focus of public attention. In this process, the media in our country also increased the coverage of food safety issues and became an important bridge for information communication among government, enterprises and consumers. In this paper, we put the issue of food safety in the global context of “risk society” and analyzed the current situation and problems of the dissemination of media information in the field of food safety in our country and the reasons for these problems. We further analyzed the role of the media and Function in-depth discussion.