Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 9

Food business operators shall retain the related source documents of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products.Food business operators falling under a category and scale designated by the central competent authority in a public announcement shall establish their own traceability system for tracing the source and tracking the flow of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products according to their respective industry modes.To govern the food safety, sanitation and quality, and ensure the information accuracy of food traceability system, the central competent authority shall require the businesses in the preceding paragraph to use electronic uniform invoices in a phased public announcement, according to the necessity of tracing the source.The central competent authority shall establish the traceability system in Paragraph 2. Food business operators shall use electronic methods to declare the information of the traceability system. The electronic declaration method and specification shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.The types of documents to be retained and the period of retention mentioned in Paragraph 1 and the regulations governing the establishment, matters to be recorded, verification and other matters to be complied with for the traceability system mentioned in Paragraph 2 shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.