The Partial Amended Provisions for the Regulations of Inspection of 
Imported Foods and Related Products  
 
 
Amended provisions  
Article 4   Obligatory  Inspection Applicants shall submit the following documents 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 certificates required by the Food and Drug 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 certificates and 
data. The Obligatory Inspection Applicants shall not evade, obstruct or refuse.  
The Inspection Applicants may submit the inspection documents of the 
paragraph 1 that required by TFDA with the electronic way.  
Article 5   (Repealed .) 
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.  
Accor ding to the provisions of Paragraph 3 of Article 51 of this Act, in case of 
difficulty in sampling the product, the food merchant who imports food with 
prior release was temporarily stop, inspection Authority may require 
inspection by transferring product from container to the warehouse.  
During the verifying and sampling in preceding paragraph 1 and paragraph 
2, Obligatory Inspection Applicants shall cooperate accordingly and can not 
appoint any specific sample.  
Article 19  Due to requiring five or more day s for examination, or sampling of such 
products is difficult in a container yard, the product is perishable, or the 
product is directly loaded by cargo boat and the terminal without storage, the 
inspection authority may issue a Notice of Prior Release for import ing for 
customs clearance after the obligatory inspection applicant sign an affida vit 
of custodial responsibility . However, for products designated for batch -by-batch 
inspection shall be retained at border temporarily.  
Article 19 -1 If the imported product be  declare d or labeled as an organic product  which 
not to violate  the Act except for the organic labeling approval  document, the 
inspection authority may issue a Notice of Prior Release for import ing for 
customs clearance after the obligatory inspection applicant sign an affida vit 
of custodial responsibility . 
Article 20   Products that belong to one of the following situations, the inspection 
authority may issue a prior release notice after the obligatory inspection 
applicant paying a guarantee bond ： 1. Products were belongs to Reinforced randomly -selected batch inspection.  
2. Products were belongs to Oversee inspection and the result is not  
qualified.  
3. Obligatory Inspection Applicant had submitted Prior Release for more  
than 3 months and had not yet completed the inspection process, then 
re-apply any other product  for the Prior Release.  
The amount of the guarantee bond in the preceding paragraph shall be twice 
as the customs value of the products.  
Article 21   Paying the guarantee bond in accor dance with preceding article by an 
obligatory inspection applicant shall be by financial -institutions -issued 
cashier's check or check, or postal order.  
After the products applied for inspection conform to the regulations or had 
obtained the notification of  noncompliance and in accordance with Article 24, 
and no violation of Subparagraph 3 of Article 51 of the Act, the obligatory 
inspection applicant may request the inspection authority to refund the 
guarantee bond.  
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 days after the day for 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 no t 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 inspection applicant:  
1. Return or destroy.  
2. For products do not conform to Article 22 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 taking the enforcement of  
appropriate safety measures.  
3. For products violate Article 22, Article 24, Article 26, Article 2 7 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, aft er the 
TFDA agreed, may import and recondition goods or correct indication  of the 
product . 
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 appropriate action in accordance with the 
provisions of Paragraph 1 of this Article.