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Executive Yuan’s Cross-Ministerial Food Safety Inspection and Crackdown Task Force initiates liquid eggs inspection

  • Data Source:Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare
  • Created:2016-03-10
  • Last Updated:2024-04-17

The convenience and reduced contamination levels (due to manual egg-whisking) of liquid egg products have made them popular in catering, baking, restaurants, and various food industries. To ensure the quality and safety of liquid eggs, Executive Yuan’s Cross-Ministerial Food Safety Inspection and Crackdown Task Force put the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in charge—together with agricultural agencies and local governments—to initiate a joint inspection of liquid egg manufacturers and their egg suppliers. 
As part of this joint inspection, the FDA and local public health bureaus will target key elements for the inspection, such as the egg source for liquid egg manufacturers, sanitation regulatory compliance of liquid egg products, and whether the manufacturing process meets Good Hygienic Practices standards, etc. Agricultural agencies will increase inspection of animal feeding and drug use at egg suppliers and, in coordination with the Egg Products Traceability System initiated on Sept 1, 2015, enforce thorough transit documentation and tracking of contaminated egg products (eggs with drug residues). This joint operation will ensure the safety of domestic liquid egg products, from the egg suppliers to the liquid egg manufacturers. 
Liquid egg manufacturers must all meet Good Hygienic Practices standards in terms of food processing personnel, production facilities, facility sanitation management and quality assurance (per Article 8-1 of the Food Sanitation Management Act). Manufacturers violating any standards must enact corrective action within specified timeframes; those failing to comply will be fined NT $60,000-200,000,000 (per Article 44 of the same law). Egg suppliers may be fined NT $30,000-150,000 (per Paragraph 2a, Article 40 of the Veterinary Drugs Control Act), for any misuse of animal drugs in terms of species treated, purpose, administration, dosage, withholding time, and notes on usage, or if restricted drug is administered within the withholding time, and the eggs produced within the withholding or discard time is sold for consumption or food processing, etc. (per Paragraph 3, Article 32-3 of the same law).