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5. Food Safety Month
(1) The Food Safety Month awareness program was held in 2015. A press conference for the
initiation of the Food Safety Month was held on July 1, 2015. Attendants invited to the conference
included National Taiwan University Food Safety Center (NTU FSC), local health bureaus and
departments, supermarkets and retailers, fast food businesses, and beverage vendors. Results
of food safety checks of each department were exhibited as well.
(2) Four sessions of Food Safety for Peace of Mind promotional events were held in Northern,
Central, and Southern Taiwan. TFDA also participated in the Taiwan International Culinary
Exhibition held from July 17 to 20, 2015, inviting everyone to partake in the festival and acquire
proper food safety concepts during various interaction processes.
6. Food Safety Wardens
(1) To support the Food Safety Wardens public participation campaign advocated by the
Executive Yuan, TFDA organized the Food Safety Wardens-Support from the Ideal Retailer
and Supermarket to improve public understanding of food safety systems established by ideal
retailers and how the government, businesses, consumers, and mass media work together to
establish an environment for safe food in Taiwan.
(2) TFDA worked with various public agencies such as the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA),
Consumer Protection Committee, and Council of Agriculture to jointly establish the Guide to Ideal
Corporate Distributors of Food and Agricultural Products which listed seven major principles
those corporate distributors can comply with in order to improve management practice and
improve corporate image. The Food Safety Warden Consultation Team was also established to
improve self-management amongst businesses.
(3) Supermarkets were invited to the press conference to provide an actual demonstration of the results
for complying to the corporate guidelines. TFDA also organized the Finding the Ideal Distributor
photo upload-and-win event to strengthen public awareness on ideal distributor channels.
7. Promoting Awareness of Food Safety and Sanitation

(1) To promote awareness of relevant policies, TFDA worked with mass media interview programs
and created 30 exclusive interviews that were then aired to provide accurate information.
(2) Apple Daily published ?ve articles in its nation-wide circulation on the New Era for Food Safety
series (three-tier quality control system, traceability system, Food and Drugs Intelligence Center,
1919 National Food Safety Helpline, and White Paper on Food Safety) which described the
government's efforts in building a new era of food safety for the general public that includes
establishment of a food safety network, achieving total coverage and understanding of food
material distribution, and the use of Big Data Analysis for food and drugs.

(3) TFDA organized the Food Sanitation and Safety Science Camp for school children that employed
a scientific perspective for analyzing food safety risks and concepts, helping the students
establish correct knowledge and mindsets regarding food sanitation and safety. 10 of these
Science Camps were held in various counties and cities for 359 junior high school students.

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