英文摘要 |
Canning industry involves high expertise, thus indicating the importance of sanitation and safety management. From 2017 to 2019, Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) and the local health bureaus have inspected 152 canning factories. According to the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation, the compliance of the regulations on the registration, food labeling and good hygiene practice (GHP) was specifically analyzed. The results showed the compliance rate of the registration and food labeling during initial inspections has reached higher than 80%, whereas the compliance rate of initial inspections of GHP was less than 50% in 2017 and 2018. The major non-compliances of canned food chapters in GHP were deficient in sterilization records and important controlled factors for sterilization. The non-compliance has been followed up with affected factories by the local health bureaus. Factories with violations were penalized according to the provisions of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation. Under continuous inspection programs by government, the compliance rate of overall initial inspections presented an uptrend in 2019. Furthermore, it shows that canning factories with capital above 100 million performed the best in overall management, and those with capital below 30 million have the worst compliance rate during the initial inspections of GHP. The TFDA inspection plan can focus on the canning factories with capital less than 30 million in future, and try to improve the self-management level of canning factories by offering guidance concerning the major non-compliances during inspection. |