Page 101 - 2022 Taiwan Health and Welfare Report

Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) spares no efforts in workings to protect the health of consumers. To achieve this goal, the key working points of the agency in 2021 focus on: bolstering legal standards and register mechanisms; solidifying food businesses supervisions; establishing a detailed supply chain monitoring system; improving national laboratory capacity and capability; setting up risk precautionary and management mechanisms; and proactively bolstering consumer protection and communication channels, so as to provide an environment ensuring drug safety and effectiveness, as well as food safety and health to our consumers.
Chapter 1 Management of Food
Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (hereafter referred to as TFDA) continued to implement its "Five-Point Food Safety" policy to achieve inter-domain integration of five major aspects: source control management, production management, market inspection, manufacturers
and vendors liability and supervision by the citizens in order to create a comprehensive network of food safety.
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1. Regulatory Standards
Food Regulatory Standards and Product Reviews and Registration
In an effort to strengthen food management related regulations in Taiwan, in 2021, TFDA amended 29 regulations, including "Regulations Governing the Labeling of Small Prepackaged Food", "Regulations of COVID-19 Prevention and Management for the Food Service", and revising "Food Business Shall Take Out Product Liability Insurance", "Standards for Specification, Scope, Application and Limitation of Food Additive".
2. Product Reviews and Registration
In 2021, TFDA registered the inspection for specific foods and food additives as shown in Table 7-1.
Table 7-1 Number of Registered Specific Foods and Food Additives, 2021
Category
Effective Licenses
Imported foods in tablet or capsule form
7,231
Health food
406
Genetically modified foods
155
Specific dietary foods
Formula for certain diseases
290
Infant and follow-up formula
129
Domestic capsule and tablet vitamin products
1,400
Vacuum- packaged ready-to-eat soybean food
55
Food additives
6,058
Total
15,724
Source : Taiwan Food and Drug Administration
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Management of Food and Drugs