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addition, we signed a cooperation agreement on pharmaceutical management with Malaysia;

and the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Quality Management System of Medical Devices
with Japan. Furthermore, we also hosted several workshops and forums, which greatly
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products.
TFDA continuously improves the domestic inspection capability and develops testing
methods, the number of compounds which can be identified by high-throughput screening
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pesticides in 10 years; the multi-inspection methods for pesticide residue in livestock products
have increased the number of inspection items from 60 to 126. Therefore, we are able to

rapidly conduct lab testing in response to illegal incidents to maintain people’s safety of food
and medicinal products.
In addition, TFDA also created a food and drug misleading advertisement area on its
official website to monitor exaggerated and misleading advertisements, or which claims of
medical efficacy. In order to protect the public health and consumer rights, we remind the
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publishing the information on advertisements suspected of violating regulations from foreign

websites. A total of 59 cases have been posted as of 2018, with a total of over 565 thousand
clicks!
TFDA’s mission is to advance public health by helping them to have "Safe and effective
medicinal products, safe and healthy food." Under the vision of "Being a reliable guardian
on food and medicinal product safety" and "Creating a safe food and medicinal consumer
environment", TFDA will continuously construct a well-established system of management
and regulation to be in line with the international standards and promote the special law for the
management of regenerative medicine products, and vigorously promotes the legislation of the
Medical Device Act. TFDA is dedicated to regulating total product life cycle management for

food, medicinal products and cosmetics; through the big data analysis of food and medicinal
products, we will promote information transparency, and continue to devote in establishing a
comprehensive safety management system for food and medicinal products.

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