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Introduction of the Policy
Introduction of the Polic y

In order to offer a reliable food safety environment for all consumers, we precede the
farm-to-table program as 3-tier food quality of management system. The competent authority
is responsible for supervision and inspection through overseas source inspection, imported
product inspection at borders, post-market inspection, and cooperation with police to enhance
the inspection of food and drugs, to identify the potential risks and product items and adopt the
warning and control measures in advance.

Implementation Strategy
Implementation Strate gy

I. Overseas on-site inspection
For the management of source control, the central competent authority refers to the
imported records over the years, and dispatches personnel to the exporting country to conduct
on-site inspection for the food safety and hygiene of imported foods.

II. Inspection of imported products at borders
The annual inspection plan will be stipulated every year in order to ensure the safety of
imported food products, and we will review and adjust the inspection methods and items with the
rolling approach according to the criteria such as inspection records, characteristics of products,
and domestic and foreign information, etc. The foods that do not pass the customs clearance
inspection at borders will be returned or destroyed according to the regulations, furthermore, the
information of these products such as company name, address, product name, and illegal status

may be revealed to the public. At the same time, TFDA will increase the product sampling rate
up to inspection batch by batch if necessary.
III. Domestic manufacturing processing and circulation supervision

We plan national food inspection projects with reference of the food inspection data in
the past, public opinion and concerned subjects, violation patterns of incidents and market
distribution, production and sales models, to reinforce the inspections on high-concern, high
percentage of violation and high-risk projects. We also supervise and assist the health bureaus
of local governments to conduct implementation of food inspection and management and adopt
the two-way inspection of source manufacturing and distribution sales to strengthen the food
hygiene and safety.

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