With the growing public awareness of health and environmental protection, along with the global trend toward carbon reduction and sustainable living, more people are adopting vegetarian diets as an environmentally friendly lifestyle. To continuously safeguard the food safety of vegetarian diets, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has initiated the Inspection Project for Vegetarian Food Service Providers of 2025, in collaboration with local health authorities. The project includes the inspection of vegetarian food service establishments and sampling of ingredients and finished products to ensure the hygiene and safety of food consumed by the public.

The focuses of inspection include the compliance with the regulations on governing the Registration of Food Businesses, the regulations on Good Hygiene Practice (GHP), the regulations on the product liability insurance, preserving the related source documents of the raw materials, and the regulations on labeling, as well as the sampling and testing of vegetarian foods. Those who are found to be violations of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (hereinafter referred to as the “Food Safety Act”) will be punished in accordance with the law.

TFDA calls on all food businesses to practice self-management and comply with the relevant provisions of the Food Safety Act, or else those found to have violated the regulations will be punished according to the law in order to safeguard food safety and sanitation for consumers.