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Taiwan Food and Drug Adminstration

Section 3. Food Product Safety Chain Monitoring

Current status
To strengthen food safety management, TFDA has established a comprehensive Three-Tiers
quality control system for food products (Figure 2-1-3). TFDA has continued to provide guidance
to food businesses in stipulating enacting food safety monitoring plans and self-testing (The First
Tier) as well as establishing laboratories and other amenities equipped with laboratories to help
food businesses take up the responsibility of self-management. For testing and veri?cation carried
out by independent 3rd party certification body agencies (The Second Tier), TFDA provided
support to establish or strengthen the capacities of independent testing institutions and expand
their human resources so that these agencies and institutions would be able to conduct Good
Hygienic Practice (GHP) and Food Safety Control System (HACCP) audits for food products in
addition to carrying out food safety testing. A top-down inspection system (The Third Tier) shall
be maintained according to risk management concepts and improve inspection and testing
capacities of the market. Such measures include the joint inspection program for food products
that involve multiple ministries and departments, speci?c product inspection and test of annual
monitoring programs of the central government, and routine inspection and test carried out by
local health bureaus. Monitoring and management efforts of the government and private agencies
were combined in order to encourage food producers and businesses to fulfill their social
responsibilities and jointly safeguard food safety for the public.

The government
inspection and test
The
Third
Tier
rd
3 party certification
body audit
The
Second
Tier
Self-management
by the business
（registration / GHP / mandatory
self-testing / traceability）
The
First
Tier

Figure 2-1-3 Three-Tiers Quality Control System for Food Safety

Policies and Outcomes
1. Three-Tiers Quality Control System for Food Safety

(1) The First Tier: Encourage producers and food businesses to implement self-management
Establish a database
of food business identification
Complete registration of food businesses
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a.To enhance food businesses in implementing self-management, TFDA announced 17
categories of food businesses (including edible oils, processed meat products, processed
dairy products, processed aquatic products, food additives, special dietary foods, soybeans,
Source
Business
Must-Test registration management Must-Declare
corn, wheat, flour, starch, salts, sugar, soy sauce, tea leaves, prepackged tea drinks, and
Food safety Integrate border inspection
Integrate databases for food
integrated commodity retail other than department stores) that required food safety monitoring
management
business compliance
management system databases.
system
plans and enforce mandatory self-testing requirements to ensure food sanitation and safety.
Diversion
The Third
Tier Management
b.Food businesses must refer to the characteristics, quality assurance systems, and self-
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Must-Inspect
testing capacities of the food industry as well as results of hazards analysis, spirit of
Integrate raw food material
Integrate product inspection
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