2016 All Genetically Modified Food Ingredients to Be Disclosed: Bulk Food Labeling to Be Fully Implemented in Three Phases by 2018

*Editor's note: At the time of writing, Minister of Health and Welfare Chiang Been-huang promised to study whether these three regulations could be implemented earlier, in June 2015.

Text by Chen Ju-wei (member of the Campus Lunch Goes Non-GMO Action Team)

The Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare recently (12/22) announced the "Matters to Be Observed for the Labeling of Packaged Foods Containing Genetically Modified Food Raw Materials," the "Matters to Be Observed for the Labeling of Food Additives Containing Genetically Modified Food Raw Materials," and the "Matters to Be Observed for the Labeling of Unpackaged Foods Containing Genetically Modified Food Raw Materials," three regulations that are mainly based on the regulatory scope for genetically modified food raw materials set out in Article 22, Paragraph 3; Article 24, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 9; Article 24, Paragraph 2; and Article 25, Paragraph 2 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation, which was passed earlier this year, and that will take effect on January 1, 2016.