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Table 5 Statistics of health food and GM food licenses every year

Issued heath food licenses (case-by-case + standard specifications review Issued GM food licenses
process)
standard Accumulated Accumulated
case-by- Number of Number of
Year case review specifications passed licenses number of passed licenses number of
licenses
review
licenses
process for the year for the year
process passed passed
2007 24 - 24 111 3 17
2008 33 - 33 144 2 19
2009 26 6 32 176 18 37
2010 16 4 20 196 3 40
2011 17 6 23 219 13 53
2012 22 8 30 249 9 62
2013 14 13 27 276 10 72
2014 26 15 41 317 12 84
2015 22 5 27 344 32 116
2016 25 7 32 376 11 127
2017 31 0 31 407 12 135
Note 1: The registration of health food shall adopt a case-by-case + standard specifications review process.
Case-by-case review process: Companies shall provide food safety, and healthcare certificates. The approval
number is Wei Bu Chien Shi Tzu No. Axxxxx.
Standard specifications review process: Products shall comply with MOHW specifications and standards. The
approval number is Wei Bu Chien Shi Kui Tzu No. xxxxxx.
Note 2: By December 2017, the accumulated number of issued health food licenses is 407 ( including 343 case-by-case
reviews and 64 standard specifications reviews), of which 52 were invalid (including expired, revoked and
combined). By the end of 2017, total valid licenses are 355 licenses.
Note 3: By December 2017, the accumulative number of issued GM food licenses is 135, of which 5 licenses are
suspended due to production termination or failure to apply for an extension. By the end of 2017, the total
number of valid licenses is 130.

Table 6 The number of approved medicated cosmetics licenses issued from

2011 to 2017

Year Total applications Licenses granted Approval rate (%)
2011 1,634 1,519 93.0

2012 1,721 1,482 86.1
2013 1,650 1,506 91.3

2014 1,900 1,661 87.4
2015 1,822 1,558 85.5

2016 1,484 1,268 84.1
2017 1,499 1,255 85.4

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