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229 samples, 61 of them violated against related regulations. Of these, the dental interosseous
implants and perm agents were at the highest violation rates. In addition to prosecution/
punishment according to the laws, TFDA also released real-time information to remind and alert
the public.

In addition to routine management policies and post-marketing surveillance, the security
management of TFDA shall gradually achieve the goal of “Being ahead of the enemy” by
conducting focused works including the construction of big data and the introduction of
surveillance system. TFDA established “Food and Drug Intelligence Center (Intelligence
Center)” to collect national and international information of food/drug forums and trends,
complied with inter-departmental information, and utilized big data to explore and evaluate
risks for the effective prevention and reduction of food safety problems. For example, the

TFDA integrated data derived from multiple departments and controlled the transaction records
of industrial oils, feed oils and wasted cooling oils as inspection references to reveal high-
risk businesses; performed long-term analysis over six high-risk imported foods to uncover
the prediction indicators of the increased non-conformity rate, and to assist high-risk targets
screening for the goal of real-time surveillance.

TFDA also achieved excellent outcomes on the establishment of brilliant new analytical
approaches! Such as, a new developed, world-leading, and rapid colorant screening method
expended the capacity of the test from only 8 items to 46 items. This technology applied into the

boarder inspection greatly and effectively prevented illegal products from being imported into
domestic markets. Moreover, the analytical approaches helped the police authority detecting
the firstly-seen synthetic cassinones (6-methoxy Methylone) in the confiscated samples which
contained similar contents as well as toxicities to the schedule 2 drugs (MDMA) that might
cause serious health problems if misused.
In the future, “Safe and healthy food, safe and effective medicinal products” will still
be the primary mission of TFDA. Under the vision of “Being a general-trusted food and
medicinal product safety guardian” and “creating a safe food and medicinal products consumer
environment”, TFDA is committed to establishing a new order of production and management

for food, medicinal products and cosmetics by combining source management, effective
monitoring, inspection technology, and consumer-based core value.

Director-General, Taiwan Food and Drug
Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare

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