Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 56

Should food business operators violate Subparagraph 3, 7, or 10 of Paragraph 1 of Article 15 or Paragraph 1 of Article 16 and result in harm to consumers, they shall bear the responsibilities for compensation. But if food business operators prove the harm is not caused by their manufacturing, processing, preparation, packaging, transportation, storage, sales, import, and export or have exercised due care to prevent such harm, they shall be exempted from the responsibilities.Consumers may claim a certain amount of monetary compensation, and may file for consumer litigation in accordance with the provisions specified from Article 47 to Article 55 of the Consumer Protection Law even without suffering property damage.In the event of difficulty for consumers to provide or inability to provide evidence to support the actual amount of damage, they may request the Court to determine the compensation in the amount between NT$500 and NT$300,000 for each case of damage per person based on the circumstances of such damage.The municipal or county (city) government shall assist consumers in accordance with Article 50 of Consumer Protection Law, when receiving complaints concerning the damage from 20 or more consumers for a certain result of the same incident.Attorneys who represent the consumer protection organizations to litigate according to Paragraph 1 of Article 49 of the Consumer Protection Act may request the litigation remuneration and shall not be applicable to the latter part of Paragraph 2 of Article 49 of the Consumer Protection Act.