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07 ｜ Management of Food and Drug

Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (hereafter and Packages," "Efficacy Assessment Method of
referred to as TFDA) spares no efforts in workings Health Food for Dental Care," and "Regulation of
to protect the health of consumers. To achieve this Imported Beef and Beef Products from the United
core value, the key working points of the agency in States and Canada," among others, to strengthen
2023 focus on: bolstering legal standards and register Taiwan's food management regulations.
mechanisms; solidifying food businesses supervisions; 2. Product Reviews and Registration
establishing a detailed supply chain monitoring system; In 2023, TFDA registered the specific foods and
improving national laboratory capacity and capability; food additives as shown in Table 7-1.
setting up risk precautionary and management
mechanisms; and proactively bolstering public Section 2 Food Management at the Source
communications and advocates, so as to provide an 1. Expand the scope of inspection items
environment ensuring drug safety and effectiveness, as Systematic inspection were completed for fishery
well as food safety and health to our consumers. products from Indonesia, pork from Japan, beef
from Lithuania, lamb from the United Kingdom, dairy
Chapter 1 Management of Food products from Australia, beef from all ages of cattle
TFDA continues to implement its "Five-Point from Canada, and fishery products from Vietnam.
Food Safety" policy to achieve inter-domain integration Products from the aforementioned countries
of five major aspects: source control management, that meet the designated import conditions,
production management, market inspection, originate from approved production facilities, and
manufacturers and vendors liability, and supervision are accompanied by the specified certification
by the citizens in order to create a comprehensive documents can apply for import inspection at the
network of food safety. Taiwan Food and Drug Administration.
2. Strengthen Border Control
Section 1 Food Regulatory Standards
(1) In 2023, TFDA revised the inspection
and Product Reviews and
requirements for imported goods. As a result,
Registration
a total of 2,765 CCC Codes (Commodities
1. Regulatory Standards Classification of the Republic of China) for
In 2023, 29 regulations were amended or revised, imported products were required to undergo
including the announcement of amendments to the border inspections before they were allowed to
"Sanitation Standard for Food Utensils, Containers enter the country.

Table 7-1 Number of Registered Specific Foods and Food Additives, 2023

Categories of food that should be registered Number of valid permit document
Imported food in tablet or capsule form 7,684
Health food 421
Genetically modified food raw materials 160

Specific dietary Formula for certain disease 348
foods Infant and follow-up formula 142
Domestic capsule and tablet vitamin products 1,480
Vacuum- packaged ready-to-eat soybean food 37
Food additives 6,054
Total 16,326
Source: Taiwan Food and Drug Administration

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