Legal response to environmental health risks in a risky society

The protection of public health is one of the legislative purposes of China’s environmental legal system. Article 39 of the Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China establishes an environmental and health risk assessment system. The health risk assessment system has biases in understanding, and it fails to face up to the functional transformation from the ex-post relief of environmental damage to the pre-prevention prevention of health risks in the environmental legal system; lack of a complete environmental and health legal system, unclear environmental and health risk assessment framework, and unclear environmental and health risk assessment frameworks. Health risk management capabilities need to be improved, there is a lack of specialized environmental and health risk assessment institutions, and there is a lack of supporting risk assessment technical standard system construction. It is necessary to combine practical experience with China’s national conditions and actual needs, construct an environmental health risk assessment system with Chinese characteristics from both the entity and the procedure, strengthen legislative support, and improve my country’s environmental and health laws on the basis of objective and scientific protection of the assessment process. Institutional system, establish a national environmental health risk assessment expert committee as soon as possible, improve my country’s environmental and health risk assessment framework, strengthen environmental and health management capacity building, improve the environmental and health risk assessment technical system, and promote the development of China’s environmental and health risk assessment system develop and give play to the institutional mission of safeguarding public health.