Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 43

The competent authority shall keep strictly confidential the particulars of, and may grant reward to, anyone informing against foods, food additives, food utensils, food containers or packaging, food cleansers, labels, promotional materials, advertisements or food business operators that are found to have violated the provisions of this Act. If civil servants disclose the confidential information, they will be punished with criminal and administrative responsibilities.The regulations governing the jurisdiction of the complaints received by the competent authority, processing time period, confidentiality, reward to informant and other matters to be complied with mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.Confidentiality of identity of informants in Paragraph 1 shall be subject to the same requirements during litigation procedures.