Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation｜第 3 條｜Food and Drug Administration｜Act｜In Force
第 一 章｜衛生福利部 / 食品藥物管理署｜v108.06.12
Last Amended: 2019-06-12
For purposes of this Act, the following terms shall have the meaning set forth below: 1. The term “foods” shall mean goods provided to people for eating, drinking, or chewing, and the raw materials of such goods. 2. The term “special dietary foods” shall mean infant and follow-up formula, formula for certain diseases or other formula approved by the central competent authority to be consumed by people with special nutrient requirement. 3. The term "food additives" shall mean a single substance or combination of substances that are added to or brought into contact with foods for the purpose of coloring, seasoning, preserving, bleaching, emulsifying, flavoring, stabilizing quality, enhancing fermentation, increasing viscosity, enriching nutritional value, preventing oxidation or other necessary purpose. Components of the food additive combinations shall be limited to food additives approved by the central competent authority. The single food additive shall have an approval number granted by the central competent authority. 4. The term "food utensils" shall mean instruments, tools, or containers that come into direct contact with foods or food additives. 5. The terms "food containers or packaging" shall mean containers and packaging materials that come into direct contact with foods and food additives. 6. The term "food cleansers" shall mean substances used to disinfect or clean foods, food utensils, food containers and food packaging. 7. The term "food business operators" shall mean those businesses that engage in the manufacture, processing, preparation, packaging, transportation, storage, sale, import or export of foods, or engage in the manufacture, processing, import, export or sale of food utensils, food containers or packaging, or food cleansers. 8. The term "labels" shall mean wording, pictures, symbols or additional instruction sheet affixed to foods, food additives, food cleansers, food utensils, food containers or food packaging to indicate the product name or to give explanation. 9. The term “nutrition label” shall mean the nutrients, contents or nutrition claims of the food affixed to food containers or packaging. 10. The term “inspection” shall mean verification and analysis. 11. The term “genetic modification” shall mean the transfer of genetic material or insertion into live cells or organisms via genetic engineering, molecular biotechnology, or other related technologies to produce genetic recombination, exogenous genetic characteristics, or to suppress certain genes of the recipient. However, this does not include traditional breeding methods or techniques such as cell and protoplast fusion, hybridization, mutagenesis, in-vitro fertilization, somaclonal variation, and chromosome doubling of plants of the same species and protoplasts. 12. The term “processing aid” shall mean any substance or material, not including apparatus or utensils, and not consumed as a food ingredient by itself, intentionally used in the processing of raw materials, foods or its ingredients, to fulfill a certain technological purpose during treatment or processing and which may result in the non-intentional but unavoidable presence of residues or derivatives in the final product. Any residues of processing aids shall be removed before the food reaches its finished form and remaining in the food after processing should not perform a function in the final product.