Page 90 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Collective Dining The Language of Food Unit 3: Building Food Security and Agriproduct Safety Systems were not yet on the market 2,029 times, with 99.2% being up to standards; and on seafood in wholesale fish markets 27,330 times, with 99.9% being up to standards. In cases where the tested products did not conform to standards, in all cases we asked the relevant municipal, city, and county governments to hand out punishments and strengthen guidance and improvement based on relevant regulations. The COA also continued in 2018 to do routine monitoring and testing to ensure quality control of premium poultry products; we conducted 855 tests, with 99.6% of products being up to standards. Moreover, the COA sample tested livestock and poultry products on the market for veterinary drug residues 689 times, with 100% being up to standards. (5) Strengthening the slaughterhouse inspection system In order to increase the number of meat inspectors and their professionalism, the COA entrusts the National Animal Industry Foundation to hire meat inspectors who had passed relevant training courses to do inspections. There are already 653 inspectors in charge of livestock and poultry slaughterhouses across the country, undertaking meat inspections under the supervision of the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine and its branch ofces. In 2018, 8.15 million head of livestock (pigs, cattle, sheep) and 355.34 million poultry (chicken, ducks, geese) were inspected, in order to ensure the sanitation and safety of meat products consumed by our citizens. (6) Promoting traceability systems for various agriproducts The COA completed the interface between the production traceability system and the testing data platform, and pro- actively guided agriproduct producers to join the “Taiwan Agricultural Products Production Traceability System.” As of the end of 2018, the COA had distributed 39,059 agriproduct production traceability QR Codes (an increase of 9,051), for 524 domestic fresh and processed agriproducts, including vegetables, fruit, rice, mixed staple crops, and processed foods. In order to expand the traceabililty of seafood, in 2016 the COA finalized the “Operation Directions for Taiwan Aquatic Product on Traceability,” and combined this with information systems, so that consumers can swipe the product QR Code right where the product is sold to immediately 88