Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 4
The actions taken by the competent authority in the governing of food safety and sanitation shall be based on risk assessment and shall align with satisfying the citizens’ right to have healthy and safe food and the right to know, as well as the principles of scientific evidence, precaution, and information transparency. The competent authority shall establish a risk assessment and advisory system.For the risk assessment mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the central competent authority shall assemble experts and scholars specialized in food safety, toxicology, risk assessment, etc., as well as non-governmental organizations, to form a food risk assessment advisory committee. Each gender shall not be less than one-third of the total number of the committee members.The advisory system in Paragraph 1 shall refer to a council advisory committee comprising experts and scholars specializing in food safety, nutrition, medicine, toxicology, risk management, agriculture, law, and humanities and social science to provide advice on food sanitation and safety, nutrition, genetically modified foods, food advertising and labeling, and food testing methods. Each gender shall not be less than one-third of the total number of the committee members.The members of the committee shall abide by the recusal regulation of Article 32 of the Administrative Procedure Act. The regulations governing the formation, proceedings, procedures, scope and other matters to be complied with for such council advisory committee shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.Whenever necessary, the central competent authority may take the following actions on specified products and products from specified areas on the basis of the precautionary principle, the risk assessment or the epidemiological survey result when a significant or an unexpected food safety incident occurs:1. to restrict or suspend importation inspection as well as methods or conditions of manufacturing and processing.2. to withdraw from the market, seal the products, recall within a prescribed time period, recondition within a prescribed time period, confiscate and destroy.
中文原文 食品安全衛生管理法第4條
主管機關採行之食品安全衛生管理措施應以風險評估為基礎，符合滿足國民享有之健康、安全食品以及知的權利、科學證據原則、事先預防原則、資訊透明原則，建構風險評估以及諮議體系。
前項風險評估，中央主管機關應召集食品安全、毒理與風險評估等專家學者及民間團體組成食品風險評估諮議會為之。
其成員單一性別不得少於三分之一。
第一項諮議體系應就食品衛生安全與營養、基因改造食品、食品廣告標示、食品檢驗方法等成立諮議會，召集食品安全、營養學、醫學、毒理、風險管理、農業、法律、人文社會領域相關具有專精學者組成之。
其成員單一性別不得少於三分之一。
諮議會委員議事之迴避，準用行政程序法第三十二條之規定；諮議會之組成、議事、程序與範圍及其他應遵行事項之辦法，由中央主管機關定之。
中央主管機關對重大或突發性食品衛生安全事件，必要時得依預警原則、風險評估或流行病學調查結果，公告對特定產品或特定地區之產品採取下列管理措施：
一、限制或停止輸入查驗、製造及加工之方式或條件。
二、下架、封存、限期回收、限期改製、沒入銷毀。
前項風險評估，中央主管機關應召集食品安全、毒理與風險評估等專家學者及民間團體組成食品風險評估諮議會為之。
其成員單一性別不得少於三分之一。
第一項諮議體系應就食品衛生安全與營養、基因改造食品、食品廣告標示、食品檢驗方法等成立諮議會，召集食品安全、營養學、醫學、毒理、風險管理、農業、法律、人文社會領域相關具有專精學者組成之。
其成員單一性別不得少於三分之一。
諮議會委員議事之迴避，準用行政程序法第三十二條之規定；諮議會之組成、議事、程序與範圍及其他應遵行事項之辦法，由中央主管機關定之。
中央主管機關對重大或突發性食品衛生安全事件，必要時得依預警原則、風險評估或流行病學調查結果，公告對特定產品或特定地區之產品採取下列管理措施：
一、限制或停止輸入查驗、製造及加工之方式或條件。
二、下架、封存、限期回收、限期改製、沒入銷毀。