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2Consolidated Management over
To keep up in response with the “African
Swine Fever Central Disaster Response
Center,” representatives continued to be sent to I. Promotion of domestic
attend meetings held at the Center. A total of 3
meetings were attended in 2022, during which
we collaborated with the Center on matters
related to African swine fever management.
TFDA also formed the “TFDA African Swine
Fever Emergency Response Working Group”
and activated response tasks to cope with
evolving pandemic circumstances.
Section 6
Development of
New Food Testing
Technologies
▍ Introduction of the Policy
In order to fulfill hygiene criteria such
as allowed limits set forth in food-related
laws and regulations and to identify in real-
time unknown or illegitimate additives and
pollutants that may be generated to impact
health during the process, it is required to
define test methods that are environmentally
friendly, fast, and precise. TFDA continues
to advance its laboratory testing and analysis
capabilities, define emerging test technologies
for foods, and also organize related technical
exchange and training events in response
to the inspection of sudden food events for
enhanced domestic food safety test capacity.
Food Safety
▍ Implementation Strategy
food analytical techniques
interaction
TFDA planned and held technical
exchange events where domestic and
international experts and scholars were
invited to share the current status of analytical
techniques and their experience for the sake
of boosting technical exchange enhancing the
technical level and quality of domestic test
units and nurturing talent.
II. Advancement in high-risk
and high-end food analytical
techniques to protect
people’s dietary safety
For related food items that are at high
risk and of high interest, develop credible
and fast testing methods to quickly clarify the
events and to protect public dietary safety.
In addition, in light of the fact that the scope
of food matrices is highly broad and the
food composition is complex, interference
from various types of matrices needs to
be overcome upon testing. The high-end
analytical techniques from TFDA are applied
to develop quick and highly precise test
methods that may be referred to or adopted
by applicable domestic testing institutions
in order to strengthen border inspection,
commercial product monitoring, and
autonomous management among businesses.
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