Page 92 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Collective Dining The Language of Food Unit 3: Building Food Security and Agriproduct Safety Systems As for the TGAP certification system, the COA combined the advantages of the GAP, CAS, and TAP certification systems, with a certification that covers primary agricultural products and simple processed products to certify that the products are safe and traceable, and have information transparency, from production to the processing end. The new TGAP system incorporates GLOBALG.A.P. certification standards. In the future, it will be promoted based on amendments to the “Agricultural Production and Certication Act.” In addition, in response to international trends with regard to the legal trade in lumber, the COA’s Forestry Bureau is pro- actively promoting a traceability system for domestically produced wood and bamboo. Moreover, they have added a category for wood manufactured goods to CAS certification standards, to construct a system to ensure (i) the legality of the The new design for the “Organic” mark was announced and went into effect on August 24, 2018. source of domestic wood and bamboo raw materials and (ii) quality control over processed products. These measures will protect the rights and interests of consumers and upgrade the sustainability and competitiveness of the domestic wood industry. 3. Implementation of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine (1) Strengthening prevention of avian influenza The COA continued to test the samples collected from poultry farms, slaughterhouses, pet birds, and migratory (wild) birds for avian flu, conducting a total of 55,128 tests in 2018. We also implemented stronger sample testing measures during the time period of greater vulnerability to an outbreak of winter avian influenza, including for (i) birds at higher risk for avian influenza including ducks, native chickens, layer hens, and breeding chickens and (ii) poultry farms within a ve kilometer radius of high-risk wetlands. We confirmed 98 cases of highly pathogenic avian inuenza (HPAI) in 2018 (a reduction of 46% compared to 2017), culling 690,801 birds. Moreover, on November 12, 2018, the COA’s Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine founded 90