Taiwan

Amended Act Governing Food Sanitation Lifts Ban on Beef Containing Ractopamine

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association   Updated food safety act allows for new drug residue levels, Legislature passed amendments to the Act Governing Food Sanitation on July 25, lifting the ban on beef containing the leanness-enhancing drug ractopamine and...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Developing Rice-based Food Products

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association   In response to domestic demand for gastronomic diversity, Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA) has been developing rice-based food products in recent years, ranging from the creation of various innovative...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agriculture
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Establishing New Agricultural Value Chains

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association   The Council of Agriculture (COA) promoted to establish new agricultural value chains as its new policy direction for 2013. In the face of challenges such as increased economic and trade liberalization, climate...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural marketing policy
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Taiwan Plans to Tighten Pension Eligibility for Elderly Farmers

Chan-Ik Chun
Chan-Ik Chun Agricultural Economist, FFTC   On Nov. 8, the Cabinet of Taiwan government tightened rules governing eligibility for the elderly farmers’ monthly pension in a bid to prevent “pseudo-farmers” cashing in on the welfare system which costs the government NT$50 billion (US$1.7...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Farmers' welfare and retirement system
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Crop Health Management

Hwang-Jaw Lee
Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association         Food safety has become a major challenge for many countries in the past years. The safety issues exist in every process of the food chain, such as: from production, manufacturing,...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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