The food additives management provisions in China Food Safety Law were briefly introduced and the food additives management between China and abroad was compared in the article.The insufficiency of food additives management was analyzed and some suggestions about how to improve the management were given in the article.The food additives management provisions in China Food Safety Law include provisions for pre-market approval,production license,risk surveillance and risk assessment,food safety standard,labeling and inspection of food additives.The compare of food additives management include the difference and similarity of risk management authority,risk assessment body,the data requirement for food additives pre-market approval and standard and regulation system in CAC,USA,EU,Japan,Australia-New Zealand and China.The insufficiency of food additives management in China include the risk assessment and risk communication of food additives need to be improved,the food safety standard can't meet the requirement of food additives inspection under current situations and the inspection of the use of food additives focus on the product test and ignore the processing inspection.Some suggestions on how to improve the management of food additives were given at last. <<