REGULATIONS FOR APPLICATION OF HEALTH FOOD PERMIT Article 21

The items and content of the identification report of ingredients with health care effect in the product in Subparagraph 7 of Paragraph 1 of Article 2 shall include qualitative and quantitative results of the ingredients with health care effect in the product.The items and content of the identification report of ingredients with health care effect in the product pursuant to Article 2 for the health foods in Article 3 shall meet the standards designated by the central competent authority in the Specification Standards for Health Foods.The testing method for the identification of ingredients with health care effect in the product in the preceding two paragraphs shall be the announced or recommended methods by the central competent authority preferentially; otherwise, scientific evidence and comparative reports indicating non-inferiority or superiority to the announced or recommended methods shall be required for using other testing method.The documents and information of the standard operating procedures and validation for the testing methods shall also be provided with the identification report submitted by applicants pursuant to Paragraph 1 and 2.If situation in the latter part of Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 1 of Article 3 of the Act, the identification report of each ingredient with health care effect in the product shall be issued by applicants.