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2017 Taiwan Food and Drug Administration Annual Report Chapter 4. Distribution and Post-market Management
Section 2. Post-market Management
Current Status
To ensure post-market safety surveillance mechanisms of food, medicinal products
and cosmetics, TFDA supervises the establishment of domestic and overseas safety alert
reinforce reporting system, carrying out real-time measures, sampling tests high market
risk influences on specific population and primary consumption items or high-profile
domestic and foreign products. Additionally, TFDA refers monitoring results of last year
or previous years and establishes monitoring plans to effectively reduce the incidence of
damages.
Policies and Outcomes
1. Post-market product safety management
(1) Food
A. International alert monitoring
TFDA has designated personnel to monitor international susceptible food
recycling alerts and issued real-time information to remind businesses of avoiding
importing problematic products. In 2016, international alerts were monitored to
publish a total of 102 food comsumer traffic light alerts on the Food and Drug
Consumer Service Network (http://consumer.fda.gov.tw/ ) (Figure 4-4).
Figure 4-4 The main page of the Food and Drug Consumer Service Network
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