Reporters have learned from the Food and Drug Administration that the revised “General Rules on the Examination of Food Production” (hereinafter referred to as “the General Rules”) will be put into effect officially on October 1st this year, and the original version of 2010 will be out of use. It is understood that the existing

detailed rules and regulations on the examination of food production will be still effective before the revised version is issued.

There are three major changes in the new “General Rules”, “Two Tong and One Jian[U1] ”

First, the “General Rules” can be universally used.

Second, link licensing with supervision.

Third, simplifies the conditions, requirements and contents for examination.