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Strengthen the Management
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To ensure and provide a safe and healthy “food” environment for the citizens in this
country. TFDA will continues to reinforce the food safety management with so called “Five-
Point Food Safety Policy,” including enhance the import and export management to overseas
markets, to improve the existing regulation of food management, to reinforce the inspection and
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hygiene and safety management, to cross supervise and application via current food safety

digital systems and research of inspection technology for new substances to avoid unexpected
risk. Furthermore, we established a comprehensive farm-to-table food safety management system
under cross-checking coordination mechanism to complete subject program.

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Introduction of the Policy
The “Regulations for Systematic Inspection of Imported Food ” was revised in 2019 , as
added items of import products subject to systematic inspections to strengthen the management
of import foods and control the high risk products from the beginning of the source; TFDA
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Food Safety and Sanitation” rolling reviews of items that should apply for inspection are
conducted by TFDA to ensure the safety and sanitation of the imported foods.
On the other hand, TFDA also promotes exporting food products. Other than simplifying
the application process of export proof documents of processed foods, we cooperation with
interagency and put efforts on assisting Taiwan food products to export to Singapore and Korea
or etc. In 2019, Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) had conducted
the on-site inspection in Taiwan regarding to the application of exporting animal origin food
products to the EU. To expand our overseas markets as well as enhance Taiwan’s international
competitiveness in food industry.

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