Taiwan

Amended Agro-Pesticide Act Requires Buyers to Register

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan   The "Agro-pesticide Act" was amended on 24 December, 2014.  It intended to track the flow of agro-pesticides and to clarify the responsibilities of illegal drugs,...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Agricultural Insurance Extension Program: Mango, Rice, and Tilapia Included by Council of Agriculture

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Recently the extreme winter season caused a sever cold front and made very serious agricultural losses in Taiwan. Scholars asked the government to protect agricultural production from the loss of natural damages by using the agricultural insurance system. Council of Agriculture (COA) responded to...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural risk management
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The Legislative Yuan Passes Third Reading of “Farmers’ Health Insurance Act” Article 5 Amendment

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture (COA)   The Legislative Yuan passes third reading of the “Farmers’ Health Insurance Act”, particularly the article 5 amendments on December 14, 2015. The farmers’ association members and non-members participated in the agricultural...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Farmers' welfare and retirement system
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Application of Non-Target Analysis by High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

Chung-Hung Wang, Pei-Ling Huang, Yan-Hwa Chu, Yu-Tsung Lee
ABSTRACT High-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS)-based non-targeted metabolomic analysis is a new technology used for unbiased collections of food chemical data in food safety inspections involving unexpected factors. HRMS with high resolving power and high mass spectral accuracy allows...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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The Techno Rice: An Industrial Application of Supercritical Fluid Technology in Taiwan

Yi-Jen Liaw
ABSTRACT Techno Rice, which is the rice treated with the state of the art supercritical carbon dioxide rice cleaning process, is tasty, clean, safe, and environmentally sound. As for the preparation of boiled brown rice, no additional rinsing and presoaking is needed and requires much less...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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