Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 32

In order to investigate and prevent food sanitation and safety incidents, the competent authority may require food business operators, non- food business operators, or their representatives to provide relevant records, documents, and electronic files or databases of the imported products when necessary. In this case, food business operators, non- food business operators, or their representatives shall not evade, impede or refuse such requests.The food business operators shall retain the related records, documents, electronic files, or database of imported products and genetically modified food raw materials mentioned in the preceding paragraph for five years.The central competent authority shall prescribe in a public announcement on the information to be retained, method and scope of retention in the preceding paragraph.