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2023 Taiwan Food and
Drug Administration

Annual Report

   inspections across a total of 12 food categories     Tip station
   was improved by a factor of 1.21 compared
   to the period before its implementation,          An algorithm is a kind of logical
   effectively enhancing the efficiency of border    thinking for solving problems !
   food safety management.
                                                     It refers to a well-defined set of
   II. Development of web                            instructions that a computer can execute
      crawlers for the supervision                   automatically, typically used to achieve
      and management of                              specific objectives.
      emerging web-based food                        ________________
      businesses
                                                     What is “Machine Learning?
          Web crawlers were applied to extract
   information from various prominent food           Machine learning (ML) is a type of
   platforms and define the Top 10 popular           artificial intelligence (AI) that allows
   products each month for each of the               software applications to become more
   e-commerce platforms. Meanwhile, the              accurate at predicting outcomes without
   food registration number was used to cross-       being explicitly programmed to do so.
   reference against The Registration Platform       Design some algorithms that the
   of Food and Medicinal Businesses to explore       computer can execute automatically.
   potentially risky businesses and keep track       These algorithms can analyze and obtain
   of characteristics of emerging web-based          the rules from data, and use the rules to
   distributors (such as cloud-based businesses)     predict unknown data.
   in violations, and to generate the list of        ________________
   businesses prioritized for audits; the list
   is provided to the competent authority for        Risk factor means:
   reference during the auditing process. A
   total of 26 businesses were audited in 2022;      In BPI, the Risk factor
   among them, 9 were qualified (34.6%) and          refers to variables
   17 demanded correction by a given deadline        associated with high
   (65.4%). All of them were qualified upon          risk. The BPI system,
   follow-up audits.                                 which stands for
                                                     Border Prediction
   III. Deal with African Swine                      Intelligent system.
       Fever emergency response
       and notification!

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