The Partial Amended Provisions for the Regulations of 
Inspection of Imported Foods and Related Products  
 
Article 4  Obligatory Inspection Applicants shall submit the 
following documents and papers to the inspection 
authority for inspection:  
1. An application form for inspection.  
2. A declaration form of product information.  
3. A photocopy of application for import declaration.  
4. Necessary documents and papers  required by the 
Food and Dru g Administration, Ministry of Health and 
Welfare (hereinafter as “TFDA”).  
In accordance with Article 32 of the Act, the inspection 
authority may require Obligatory Inspection Applicants 
to provide other necessary documents and papers . The 
Obligatory Inspection Applicants shall not evade, 
obstruct or refuse.  
The forms of inspection in Paragraph 1  may be by 
electronic files or any other manner required by TFDA . 
 
Article 5 (Discard)  
 
Article 17  Verifying and sampling of inspection shall conduct in 
the place where the products were stored. If the 
products were shipped in full container load, which shall 
be verifying and sampling in the centralized inspection 
area of port or where be approved by TFDA, but if it 
takes too long or has other difficult situat ions, TFDA 
shall ask to open container for warehouse delivery . 
During the verifying and sampling in preceding 
paragraph, Obligatory Inspection Applicants shall 
cooperate accordingly and cannot appoint any specific 
sample.  
 
Article 19  Due to requiring five or more days for examination, or 
sampling of such products is difficult in a container yard, 
or the product is perishable,  or the products  in bulk and 
no warehouse in wharf,  after the obligatory inspection 
applicant sign an affidavit of custodial responsib ility, the 
inspection authority may issue a Notice of Prior Release 
for import for customs clearance. However, for products 
designated for batch -by-batch inspection shall be 
retained at border temporarily.    
Article 19 -1 If the product which applicated or labeled as Organic 
Agricultural Product, is substantiation of their 
compliance with the Act and other related laws and 
regulations, after the obligatory inspection applicant 
sign an affidavit of custodial responsibility, the 
inspection authority may issue a Notice of Prior Release 
for import for customs clearance before the applicant 
gets Approval Documents for Organic Agricultural 
Products.  
 
Article 20 Products that belong to one of the following situations, 
and conformed to the preceding two Articles by the 
inspection authority , the authority  may issue a prior 
release notice after the obligatory inspection applicant 
paying a guarantee bond ： 
1. Products were belonging to Reinforced 
randomly -selected batch inspection.  
2. Products were belonging to Oversee in spection and 
the result is not qualified.  
3. The obligatory inspection applicant fails to finish the 
process of inspection after elapse of ninety  days from 
the inspection authority issued a prior release notice, 
and applies for prior release notice again.  
The amount of the guarantee bond in the preceding 
paragraph shall be twice as the products DDP 
(Delivered Duty Paid) price.  
 
Article 21  Paying the guarantee bond in accordance with 
preceding article by an obligatory inspection applicant 
shall be by financial -institutions -issued cashier's check 
or check, or postal order.  
With any of the following conditions  and no violation of 
Subparagraph 3 of Article 51 of the Act, the obligatory 
inspection applicant may request the inspection 
authority to refund th e guarantee bond.  
1. After the products applied for inspection conform to 
the regulations , and earned a permission notice . 
2. The products applied do not conform to the 
regulations but deal with them in accordance with the 
provisions Article 24.  
 
Article 23 Products that fail to conform to the regulations, a  notification of noncompliance for import food and 
relevant products shall be issued.  
The obligatory inspection applicant can apply for 
re-examination to the original inspection authority within 
15 day s upon the  receipt of the notification of results. 
Application for re -examination is limited to one time only 
and shall be performed by the original inspection 
authority using remaining samples for the 
re-examination.  
Remaining samples of products that do not conform to 
regulations shall be destroyed at the end of the period 
of application for re -examination.  
 
Article 24  Imported products that do not conform to regulations 
upon inspection shall be disposed of in one of the 
following ways by the obligatory i nspection applicant:  
1. Return or destroy.  
2. For produ cts do not conform to Article 17  or Article 18 
of this Act or  violate Paragraph 1 of Article 21 of this 
Act, the obligatory inspection applicant may apply to 
TFDA for disinfection, reconditioning or ta king the 
enforcement of appropriate safety measures.  
3. For products violate Article 22, Article 24, Article 26, 
Article 27 or Paragraph 1 of Article 28 of this Act, the 
obligatory inspection applicant may apply to TFDA for 
relabeling.  
When the obligatory inspection applicant takes 
appropriate action in accordance with the 
Subparagraph 2 or 3 of the preceding Paragraph, the 
TFDA may issue a prior release notice to the obligatory 
inspection applicant  and then takes disinfection, 
reconditi oning, enforcement of appropriate safety 
measures or relabeling.  
If imported products that have been released via a prior 
release notice fail an inspection, the inspection authority 
shall order the obligatory inspection applicant to retrieve 
and take appro priate action in accordance with the 
provisions of Paragraph 1 of this Article.  
 
Article 27-1 The C ertificate of course completion according to Article 
5 herein before the amended and came into 
enforcement in October 18 2018 shall be still valid for 
the valid period.