Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 2-1

To enhance the coordination, oversight, promotion, and investigation of national food safety affairs, the Executive Yuan shall establish the Food Safety Board. The Premier of the Executive Yuan shall serve as the convener with the participation of the heads of other relevant ministries and commissions, experts, scholars, and representatives of non-governmental organizations to take charge of inter-agency coordination for the food safety risk assessment and management measures as well as establish the early warning and auditing system of food safety and sanitation. The Food Safety Board shall meet at least once every three months. When necessary, a temporary meeting may be convened. The convener shall appoint a Minister without Portfolio or a head of ministries and commissions to act as the Chief Executive of the Food Safety Board and the central competent authority shall be in charge of staff affairs.Each municipal and county (city) government shall establish the Food Safety Board; the head of the municipality and county (city) shall serve as the convener to take charge of inter-departmental coordination for the food safety and sanitation management measures. A meeting shall be convened at least once every three months.Decisions made by the Food Safety Board in Paragraph 1 shall be carried out and implemented in compliance by relevant ministries and commissions. Each quarter, the Executive Yuan shall announce the supervision results and include them in its administrative policies report to the Legislative Yuan every year.The regulations governing the formation, tasks, meeting procedures and other matters to be complied with for such Food Safety Board in Paragraph 1 shall be prescribed by the Executive Yuan.