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Reinforced Food Safety

02 Management

To ensure food safety from the farm to the dining table, it requires joint efforts of the
respective government agencies devoting to the total food management, which helps shaping
and assuring quality dietary environment. In 2017, the administration had achieved important
innovations, including the control of the imported sources, acceleration of exports, revelation of
product information on the food labels, self-management enhancement of food industry, the third-
party certification system, promotion of “New Southbound Policy,” food safety perfection via the
information system, and the development of new testing technologies for food.

Section 1 The New Management System for
Exported and Imported Food

Origin of Policy

Since Taiwan imports a large number of foods and raw materials, to strengthen risk
management on the imported foods is necessary. TFDA has promoted new management measures

on the imported food in 2017, including expanding the scope on implementation of systematic
inspections and strengthening the management of imported edible shellfish products.
In addition, with the development of technologies, the government's digital service
transformation has been promoted, and the “free sales certificate” application has been fully
processed online.

Implementation Measures

1. Expand the scope of systematic inspections

Strengthening the source management of imported foods is the first point of the Five-point
Food Safety Policy. Furthermore, the systematic inspection measures are generally adopted by
most countries around the world for imported animal-derivative products. On August 4, 2017, the

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