In recent years, the self-heated food industry has been developing rapidly, but its quality and safety issues have been of great concern to society. This paper outlined the current situation of the development of the self-heated food industry, and systematically analyzed the possible quality and safety risk issues of the components in self-heated food from the perspective of industrial practice, explained the self-heated food regulatory policies and current standards introduced by the relevant departments in China, and at the same time discussed the trends of self-heating food standards and put forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions, intending to provide a reference for industry enterprises to carry out safe production, regulatory departments to strengthen supervision, and to protect the food safety of consumers.