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Aug August 2 The 2022 National Pharmaceutical Control and Administration Conference
was held with a total of 80 representatives, including those from the
Department of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, the Food and Drug
Administration under the Ministry of Health and Welfare and local health
bureaus. The Conference helped to facilitate communication among
health authorities for the promotion and implementation of various
pharmaceutical affairs.

August 22-23 The “2022 Food Sanitation Management General Assembly” was held
and health authorities from local governments were invited to take part.
They discussed trends in the developments of emerging foods, the new
food sanitation and safety management system, and other points and
there were keynote speeches on diet-related pandemic surveys, national
pesticide residue monitoring principles, and food safety challenges in the
post-pandemic era, among others.

August 24 TFDA served as the chairperson of the second working group (for in-vitro
diagnostic medical devices, WG2) of the GHWP and organized the WG2
meeting (in hybrid mode), where members of the first and third working
groups of GHWP were invited to take part in discussions about cross-
working-group in an effort to promote international harmonization of laws
and regulations governing medical devices and to increase Taiwan’s
international visibility.

August 26 through TFDA held the 2022 Medical Devices Regulatory Science Center of
September 11 Excellence Workshop which consisted of online courses and online
meetings. The workshop attracted a total of 53 students from 13 countries.
Sep September 12 It was hoped that the workshop could encourage relevant authorities
in different countries to adopt international standards and improve the
harmonization and consistency of criteria for the pre-market review of
medical devices.

The “GMP Implementation 40th Anniversary and 10th Anniversary
of PIC/S Membership” event was held. Vice President Ching-Te Lai
appeared in person to encourage and present awards to contributors in
the implementation of GMP for medicinal products and with the hope to
boost industry-government-medical community-academia and research
community collaboration and to continue helping the pharmaceutical
industry of Taiwan in line with international.

September 13 The “APEC Online Communication Platform for Testing Techniques
for Food-Pesticide Residue Workshop” was held. Six experts and
scholars from TFDA, Canada, Peru, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam gave
keynote speeches and shared their experience in pesticide residue test
technologies and monitoring. Through international experience sharing
and exchange, attendees gained additional new knowledge about
emerging pesticide test technologies and got to work with APEC member
states.

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