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 Draft of food businesses of infant and follow-up formula and 
prepackaged milk powders and modifi ed milk powders products shall 
establish traceability system of their foods and relevant products 
MOHW Food No. 1041300457, March XX, 2015. 
The competent authority: Ministry of H ealth and Welfare (MOHW), Executive Yuan 
Basis for the enactment: The stipulations in Article 9 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation. I. The food businesses for which shall estab lish their own traceability system of 
foods and relevant products are as follows: (1) Food retailers, importers and manuf acturers of infant and follow-up 
formula. 
(2) Food retailers, importers and manufact urers of prepackag ed milk powders 
and modified milk powders products. 
II. The scale of the food businesses designated in the preceding section shall be as 
follows: (1) Food manufacturers provided in Subpa ragraphs 1, Paragraphs I: Food 
manufacturers applying for factor y registration and whose amount of 
capital are not less than NT$30,000,000 w ill entry into force on December 
31, 2015; Food manufacturers applying fo r factory registration and whose 
amount of capital are less than NT$30,000,000 will entry into force on 
December 31, 2016. 
(2) Food importers provided in Subparagra phs 1, Paragraphs I: Food importers 
applying for business registration, company registration or factory 
registration will entry into force on December 31, 2015. 
(3) Food manufacturers provided in Subpara graphs 2, Paragrap hs I: according 
to the MOHW Food No. 1031302873 a nnouncement on October 27, 2014, 
Food manufacturers applying for factory registration will entry into force 
on February 5, 2015. 2 
 (4) Food importers provided in Subparagraphs 2, Paragraphs I: according to the 
MOHW Food No. 1031302873 announcement on October 27, 2014, Food importers applying for business regi stration, company registration or 
factory registration will entry into force on February 5, 2015. 
(5) Food retailers provided in Subparagr aphs 1 to 2, Para graphs I: Food 
retailers applying for busi ness registration, company registration or factory 
registration and whose amount of capital are more than NT$30,000,000 
will entry into force on December 31, 2016. 
III. Food businesses provided in Paragraphs 2 shall upload information referred to 
the “Regulations Governing Traceability of Foods and Relevant Products” to the website (http://ftracebook.fda.gov.tw) within 3 working days after receiving date 
and shipping date of products. (1) Food manufacturers applying for factor y registration and whose amount of 
capital are not less than NT$30,000,000 w ill entry into force on December 
31, 2015; Food manufacturers applying fo r factory registration and whose 
amount of capital are less than  NT$30,000,000 will entry into force on 
December 31, 2016. 
(2) Food importers applying for business re gistration, compa ny registration or 
factory registration will entr y into force on December 31, 2015. 
(3) Food retailers applying for business re gistration, company registration or 
factory registration and whose am ount of capital are more than 
NT$30,000,000 will entry into force on December 31, 2016. 
IV. Food businesses provided in Paragraphs 2 sh all use electric uniform invoices if 
food businesses have to use uniform i nvoices referred to “Value-added and 
Non-value-added Business Tax Act”, and will entry into force on May 31, 2015.