Food safety education in America implements universal education, which not only has a perfect legal basis, but also has multiple supporting systems for protection. According to the different subjects, it implements stratified education and its administration responsibility is clear, which has a strong characteristic of vocational education. Food safety education in the United States has the characteristics of flexible education, wide range of education and strong pertinence. Due to the lack of clear legal basis, Chinese food safety education has such problems as responsibility boundary ambiguity. In the temporary implementation, food safety education system is not enough, which results to producers blindly pursuing profits, consumer legal weak consciousness and supervisor negative acting. Learn from American mature experience, Chinese food safety education should be based on self national conditions, establish the educational objects, principles, systems and methods, innovate education way, so as to form our own characteristic food safety education mechanism.