Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 15

Foods or food additives with any one of the following circumstances shall not be manufactured, processed, prepared, packaged, transported, stored, sold, imported, exported, presented as a gift or publicly displayed:1. those that have deteriorated or rotten;2. those that are unripe and thus harmful to human health;3. those that are toxic or contain substances or foreign materials that are harmful to human health;4. those that are contaminated by pathogenic organisms, or identified through epidemiological surveys as causes of food poisoning events;5. those with pesticide or veterinary drugs residue exceeding the permissible tolerance;6. those that have been contaminated by and contain nuclear fallout or radioactivity exceeding the permissible tolerance;7. those that have been adulterated or counterfeited;8. those that have passed their expiry date;9. those that have never been consumed by humans domestically and have not been proven to be harmless to human health; or10. those that contain additives not approved by the central competent authority.The standards governing the permissible tolerance of pesticide or veterinary drugs residue, and the nuclear fallout or radioactivity mentioned in Subparagraphs 5 and 6 of the preceding paragraph shall be prescribed by the central competent authority through consultation with the relevant authorities.Substances harmful to human health mentioned in Subparagraph 3 of Paragraph 1 includes skulls, brains, eyes, spinal marrow, ground beef, viscera and other related products from non-epidemic areas and countries still having Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or New Variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease cases in past ten years.Beta-agonists shall not be detected via tests in domestic and foreign meat products and other meat-related products, with the exception that the central competent authority may set a permissible tolerance of Beta-agonists after assessing risks in accordance with the citizens’ dietary habits.In the event of food poisoning caused by consumption of meat products containing Beta-agonists of a permissible tolerance, the importation of meat products containing Beta-agonists shall be suspended immediately. If said domestic food poisoning case is confirmed, the government shall take responsibility to health care for such victims and assist them in seeking compensation from the attributable entities.
中文原文 食品安全衛生管理法第15條
食品或食品添加物有下列情形之一者,不得製造、加工、調配、包裝、運送、貯存、販賣、輸入、輸出、作為贈品或公開陳列:
一、變質或腐敗。
二、未成熟而有害人體健康。
三、有毒或含有害人體健康之物質或異物。
四、染有病原性生物,或經流行病學調查認定屬造成食品中毒之病因。
五、殘留農藥或動物用藥含量超過安全容許量。
六、受原子塵或放射能污染,其含量超過安全容許量。
七、攙偽或假冒。
八、逾有效日期。
九、從未於國內供作飲食且未經證明為無害人體健康。
十、添加未經中央主管機關許可之添加物。
前項第五款、第六款殘留農藥或動物用藥安全容許量及食品中原子塵或放射能污染安全容許量之標準,由中央主管機關會商相關機關定之。
第一項第三款有害人體健康之物質,包括雖非疫區而近十年內有發生牛海綿狀腦病或新型庫賈氏症病例之國家或地區牛隻之頭骨、腦、眼睛、脊髓、絞肉、內臟及其他相關產製品。
國內外之肉品及其他相關產製品,除依中央主管機關根據國人膳食習慣為風險評估所訂定安全容許標準者外,不得檢出乙型受體素。
國內外如發生因食用安全容許殘留乙型受體素肉品導致中毒案例時,應立即停止含乙型受體素之肉品進口;國內經確認有因食用致中毒之個案,政府應負照護責任,並協助向廠商請求損害賠償。

English translation for reference only; the Chinese text prevails. Not legal advice.