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In order to improve Taiwan’s food-related regulations, the Act Governing Food Safety and
Sanitation and Health Food Control Act were actively reviewed in 2018, and a total of 46 related
regulations have been promulgated and amended. Furthermore, to enhance the self-management
ability of business operators, a number of measures have been implemented and developed to
comprehensively improve the hygiene and safety management of food production process.

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the food businesses include the business operators engaged in the manufacture, processing,
preparation, packaging, transportation, storage, sale, import or export of foods or food

additives. It has been successively announced that registration is required for food manufacture
and processing, importing, food service, and retail business operators. Moreover, in order to
improve the understanding of basic information of food businesses, the amendment to Article
4 of "Regulations Governing the Registration of Food Businesses," was announced that the
logistics industry is included in registration regulations, and "Basic information of the storage"
registration is required for each type of business operators.

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(1) Promote food businesses retain the source documents

TFDA announced "Food businesses shall Retain the Related Source Documents of the
Raw Materials, Semi-products and End Products, Including the Types of Documents
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food businesses shall retain the related source documents or the supplier's signature
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written or electronic record, from January 1, 2020.
(2) Expand the scope of food business operators that shall establish their own trace and

track system of foods
22 types of industry of "Food Business Operators that shall Establish Their Own
Trace and Track System of Foods and Related Products" were announced in phased
since 2014. "Importers of frozen, refrigerated, dehydrated, pickled, gelled, plant

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