Modeling the Formation Mechanism of Food Safety Risk in Catering O2O Distribution Link

Abstract

This paper aims to solve the problem of food safety in catering O2O distribution link. We applied the system dynamics method to model the formation mechanism of food safety risk in the distribution link. The results of our experiment include identifying the risk factors that may be faced by food safety in the distribution link from five perspectives: O2O catering enterprise’s own risk, logistics distribution team’s distribution risk, O2O catering platform supervision risk, user-supervision risk, and government department supervision risk, and establishing a risk index evaluation system based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. With the help of the system dynamics model, the corresponding risk formation mechanism system model flow diagram is established, and the model simulation analysis is carried out. Through this research, we concluded that we can use the risk model to understand the risks faced by different subjects so as to make targeted countermeasures.