Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 10

Factory registration of food business operators shall be handled by the competent industrial authority in conjunction with the competent authority.The construction and equipment of a food factory shall conform to the factory establishment standards, which shall be prescribed by the central competent authority in conjunction with the central competent industrial authority.A food or food additive factory shall be independently established and shall not engage in non-food manufacturing, processing, or preparation at the same address and in the same factory premises. However, this regulation shall not apply to those factories manufacturing both drug and food products that have been verified to conform to the Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice Regulations by the central competent authority.For factories mentioned in the preceding paragraph that were not independently established prior to the amendment of this Act on November 18, 2014, the central competent authority shall announce within six months after promulgation of this Act, and those factories shall complete independent establishment within one year after the announcement.