Page 96 - 2021 Taiwan Food and Drug Administration Annual Report

Date of Subject of announcement Key point descriptions
announcement

August 4 Amended Article 4 and Article 6 The amendments to Article 4 and 6 specify that except for
August 11 of the “Regulations Governing of the health foods that have been inspected and registered to
Criteria for the Label, Promotion acquire the associated permits, other foods shall not contain
and Advertisement of Foods and the word “health” as part of the product name, as it may
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Exaggerated, Misleading or Having July 1, 2022 (subject to the date of production).
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Amended Article 1 and Article 2 of the 1. Amended the legal basis for Article 1.
Sanitation Standard for Processing
Aids 2. Paragraph 12 of Article 3 of the Act Governing Food Safety
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the Standard is no longer needed and will be removed.

Amended the specifications of monosodium phosphate,

monosodium phosphate (anhydrous), Red No. 6,

A m e n d e d t h e “ S t a n d a r d s f o r monosodium fumarate, sodium lactate, sodium lactate liquid,

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Article 2 Table 1 and Article 3 Table 2 chloride hexahydrate that have been merged into calcium

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August 12 Amended Article 3 of the “Standards Amended the tolerances of 67 residues used in 4 animal
for Veterinary Drug Residue Limits in drugs, Amitraz, Dicloxacillin, Sulpyrine and Toltrazuril.
Foods”

For 20 agricultural livestock and poultry products that can be

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difficult to identify the place of origin, and are often mixed

Stipulated the “Regulations on Bulk and sold, the Ministry of Health and Welfare formulated

August 28 Food Labeling” and abolished the the “Regulations on Bulk Food Labeling” to reinforce the

“Regulations Related to Bulk Food standardized labeling of “Place (country) of origin” to be

Labeling” expanded to all food vendors. The “Regulations Related to

Bulk Food Labeling” stipulated by the Department of Health

of the Executive Yuan in the announcement Shu-Shou-Shi-

Zhi #1011302822, dated September 6, 2012, was abolished.

In accordance with the provisions of Subparagraph 10,

Stipulated the “Labeling Regulations Paragraph 1, Article 22 of the Act Governing Food Safety
on Country of Origin Packaged and Sanitation, packaged foods containing pork and edible
Products that Contain Pork and parts of pigs shall have the place (country) of origin clearly
Other Edible Parts of Pig” labeled on the container or the outer packaging in Chinese.
The place (country) of origin should be based on the place

(country) where the slaughtering of pigs occurs.

September Stipulated the “Regulations of the In accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 2, Article
17 Labeling of Country of Origin of 25 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation,
Pork and Other Edible Parts of Pig establishments directly providing food services shall label
for Directly Supply Food Served in the place (country) of origin for pork and edible parts of pigs
Catering Place” served. The place (country) of origin should be based on the
place (country) where the slaughtering of pigs occurs.

Amended Point 5 of the “Regulations Added that bulk foods using pork or edible parts of pigs
on Bulk Food Labeling” as raw materials shall label the place of origin of such raw
materials.

Amended the “Standards for
Veterinary Drug Residue Limits in Added the tolerance of ractopamine residues in pigs.
Foods”

Amended the “Regulation of Imported In conjunction with the adjustments to the import restrictions
Beef and Beef Products from the
United States and Canada” on beef and beef products from the United States, the
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attached when import were amended.

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