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2017 Taiwan Food and Drug Administration Annual Report Chapter 6. Early Warning, Monitoring and Risk Management

2. Establish risk prediction models Monitor real-time operating system

(1) Analyzing the use or destination of oil products
By means of the system integration process, DSC can easily trace the source and
suppliers of food (current targets are industrial oil, feed oil and waste cooking oil)
through the transaction records, and conduct automatic risk surveillance through different
modules. Meanwhile, it proposes lists of the high-risk industries, and reports them to
other enforcement agencies as a reference of prioritized inspection.

(2) Analyzing the risks of imported food
As for border control on food items, DSC conducts a long-term data analysis on 6
high-risk categories, i.e. tea, fresh and frozen fruits, frozen vegetables, frozen aquatic
products, spices and sauces, and establish 5 risk indicators, including declared import
quantities, declared net weight, sampling rate, non-conformity rate and annual growth
rate of non-conformity rate, and effectively achieve the purpose of real-time monitoring.

(3) Analyzing Japanese radiation monitoring data of food of Ministry of Health, Labour
and Welfare

Given the concern about radiation contamination of Japanese food, DSC analyzed
nearly 1.52 million radiation monitoring data from April, 2012 to December, 2016,
released by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, in order to figure out the
radiation testing results on distribution and non-distribution products.

3. Grasp the trends and respond actively
As the food-related emergency happens, DSC will usually be necessary to initiate
“war” mode to protect public health by containing and controlling the distribution of

affected food products. For example, some companies in Taiwan have been accused of
passing off catfish as cod in 2015, and the issue has been reported to DSC who have since
found out that the 2 quarter is the peak season of imports of Vietnamese catfish, and
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alerted other enforcement agencies to conduct field examination of the top 5 importers
until this incident has been effectively curbed. Another example is the imported fish
sauce could not be brought into compliance with TFDA Import Alert in 2016, as a result
of that, DSC used “declared net weight”, “sampling rate” and “non-conformity rate” as

risk factors to screen several high-risk importers and reported them to the enforcement
agencies. Moreover, another incident regarding the adulteration of expiration date of

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