Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 3
For purposes of this Act, the following terms shall have the meaning set forth below:1. The term “foods” shall mean goods provided to people for eating, drinking, or chewing, and the raw materials of such goods.2. The term “special dietary foods” shall mean infant and follow-up formula, formula for certain diseases or other formula approved by the central competent authority to be consumed by people with special nutrient requirement.3. The term "food additives" shall mean a single substance or combination of substances that are added to or brought into contact with foods for the purpose of coloring, seasoning, preserving, bleaching, emulsifying, flavoring, stabilizing quality, enhancing fermentation, increasing viscosity, enriching nutritional value, preventing oxidation or other necessary purpose. Components of the food additive combinations shall be limited to food additives approved by the central competent authority. The single food additive shall have an approval number granted by the central competent authority.4. The term "food utensils" shall mean instruments, tools, or containers that come into direct contact with foods or food additives.5. The terms "food containers or packaging" shall mean containers and packaging materials that come into direct contact with foods and food additives.6. The term "food cleansers" shall mean substances used to disinfect or clean foods, food utensils, food containers and food packaging.7. The term "food business operators" shall mean those businesses that engage in the manufacture, processing, preparation, packaging, transportation, storage, sale, import or export of foods, or engage in the manufacture, processing, import, export or sale of food utensils, food containers or packaging, or food cleansers.8. The term "labels" shall mean wording, pictures, symbols or additional instruction sheet affixed to foods, food additives, food cleansers, food utensils, food containers or food packaging to indicate the product name or to give explanation.9. The term “nutrition label” shall mean the nutrients, contents or nutrition claims of the food affixed to food containers or packaging.10. The term “inspection” shall mean verification and analysis.11. The term “genetic modification” shall mean the transfer of genetic material or insertion into live cells or organisms via genetic engineering, molecular biotechnology, or other related technologies to produce genetic recombination, exogenous genetic characteristics, or to suppress certain genes of the recipient. However, this does not include traditional breeding methods or techniques such as cell and protoplast fusion, hybridization, mutagenesis, in-vitro fertilization, somaclonal variation, and chromosome doubling of plants of the same species and protoplasts.12. The term “processing aid” shall mean any substance or material, not including apparatus or utensils, and not consumed as a food ingredient by itself, intentionally used in the processing of raw materials, foods or its ingredients, to fulfill a certain technological purpose during treatment or processing and which may result in the non-intentional but unavoidable presence of residues or derivatives in the final product. Any residues of processing aids shall be removed before the food reaches its finished form and remaining in the food after processing should not perform a function in the final product.
中文原文 食品安全衛生管理法第3條
本法用詞，定義如下：
一、食品：指供人飲食或咀嚼之產品及其原料。
二、特殊營養食品：指嬰兒與較大嬰兒配方食品、特定疾病配方食品及其他經中央主管機關許可得供特殊營養需求者使用之配方食品。
三、食品添加物：指為食品著色、調味、防腐、漂白、乳化、增加香味、安定品質、促進發酵、增加稠度、強化營養、防止氧化或其他必要目的，加入、接觸於食品之單方或複方物質。
複方食品添加物使用之添加物僅限由中央主管機關准用之食品添加物組成，前述准用之單方食品添加物皆應有中央主管機關之准用許可字號。
四、食品器具：指與食品或食品添加物直接接觸之器械、工具或器皿。
五、食品容器或包裝：指與食品或食品添加物直接接觸之容器或包裹物。
六、食品用洗潔劑：指用於消毒或洗滌食品、食品器具、食品容器或包裝之物質。
七、食品業者：指從事食品或食品添加物之製造、加工、調配、包裝、運送、貯存、販賣、輸入、輸出或從事食品器具、食品容器或包裝、食品用洗潔劑之製造、加工、輸入、輸出或販賣之業者。
八、標示：指於食品、食品添加物、食品用洗潔劑、食品器具、食品容器或包裝上，記載品名或為說明之文字、圖畫、記號或附加之說明書。
九、營養標示：指於食品容器或包裝上，記載食品之營養成分、含量及營養宣稱。
十、查驗：指查核及檢驗。
十一、基因改造：指使用基因工程或分子生物技術，將遺傳物質轉移或轉殖入活細胞或生物體，產生基因重組現象，使表現具外源基因特性或使自身特定基因無法表現之相關技術。
但不包括傳統育種、同科物種之細胞及原生質體融合、雜交、誘變、體外受精、體細胞變異及染色體倍增等技術。
十二、加工助劑：指在食品或食品原料之製造加工過程中，為達特定加工目的而使用，非作為食品原料或食品容器具之物質。
該物質於最終產品中不產生功能，食品以其成品形式包裝之前應從食品中除去，其可能存在非有意，且無法避免之殘留。
一、食品：指供人飲食或咀嚼之產品及其原料。
二、特殊營養食品：指嬰兒與較大嬰兒配方食品、特定疾病配方食品及其他經中央主管機關許可得供特殊營養需求者使用之配方食品。
三、食品添加物：指為食品著色、調味、防腐、漂白、乳化、增加香味、安定品質、促進發酵、增加稠度、強化營養、防止氧化或其他必要目的，加入、接觸於食品之單方或複方物質。
複方食品添加物使用之添加物僅限由中央主管機關准用之食品添加物組成，前述准用之單方食品添加物皆應有中央主管機關之准用許可字號。
四、食品器具：指與食品或食品添加物直接接觸之器械、工具或器皿。
五、食品容器或包裝：指與食品或食品添加物直接接觸之容器或包裹物。
六、食品用洗潔劑：指用於消毒或洗滌食品、食品器具、食品容器或包裝之物質。
七、食品業者：指從事食品或食品添加物之製造、加工、調配、包裝、運送、貯存、販賣、輸入、輸出或從事食品器具、食品容器或包裝、食品用洗潔劑之製造、加工、輸入、輸出或販賣之業者。
八、標示：指於食品、食品添加物、食品用洗潔劑、食品器具、食品容器或包裝上，記載品名或為說明之文字、圖畫、記號或附加之說明書。
九、營養標示：指於食品容器或包裝上，記載食品之營養成分、含量及營養宣稱。
十、查驗：指查核及檢驗。
十一、基因改造：指使用基因工程或分子生物技術，將遺傳物質轉移或轉殖入活細胞或生物體，產生基因重組現象，使表現具外源基因特性或使自身特定基因無法表現之相關技術。
但不包括傳統育種、同科物種之細胞及原生質體融合、雜交、誘變、體外受精、體細胞變異及染色體倍增等技術。
十二、加工助劑：指在食品或食品原料之製造加工過程中，為達特定加工目的而使用，非作為食品原料或食品容器具之物質。
該物質於最終產品中不產生功能，食品以其成品形式包裝之前應從食品中除去，其可能存在非有意，且無法避免之殘留。