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2017 Taiwan Food and Drug Administration Annual Report

Hospital, complied with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and can be the reference for

bilateral medicinal product registration.

2. Border control information notification

(1) TFDA and its Mainland China counterpart have established contact windows to notify
nonconforming food products information in order to facilitate effective response
and handling of these cases. 890 cases were reported by both parties in 2016. In
2016, 72 nonconforming food exported from Taiwan to China were reported majorly

due to different standards of microorganism in food hygiene between the two parties.
The rest factors included different boarder sampling rate between the two parties
and China included nonconformity products but not involving food safety issues. In 08
2016, 118 incidents of food exported from China to Taiwan that failed to conform to
Taiwan's regulations were reported, and most of them have beyond scope pesticide
residues.

(2) With regard to previous nonconformity products, those exported from China to Information Transparency
Taiwan all have been returned or destroyed. For those exported from Taiwan to
China that failed to conform to Taiwan's regulations of the responsible local health and Diverse Communication
bureaus, the local health bureaus would take actions against the violating cases.
Consultations were provided to businesses that food exports must comply with the

regulations of the trading counterparty as well.

3. Harmonization of regulations and standards
Section 1 The Provision of Real-time Consumer Information
Cross-Strait notification for addenda and revisions to regulations such as the “food
additive standards” and” food safety and sanitation standards” was conducted through Section 2 Diverse Channels Available for Interactive
the contact window in order to promote exchange of relevant opinions and achieve Communication
mutual understanding. From the time of its establishment to the end of 2016, in total,

both sides made 28 notifications on food additive standards and 12 notification on food
safety and sanitation standards.

4. Others – cross-strait drug prevention
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TFDA attended “the 2 cross-strait drug abuse and drug prevention seminar” in August
2016. During this seminar, TFDA exchanged business and information with experts in
relevant fields, achieve consensus, fully use bilateral management sources to enhance anti-

drug efficacy.

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