Special Act on Imported Food Safety Control.

This Act aims to contribute to sound order in trade and to improving people’s health by ensuring the safety of imported food, etc. promoting improvement in the quality thereof, and providing proper information. The Act sets up the basic principles for safety control for the entire cycle from importation to distribution. It makes provisions for: Safety control before importation, including On-site inspections of foreign food facilities or establishments, sanitation assessment of livestock products and products under special sanitary control, arrangements on sanitary control of imported fishery products; Safety control in customs clearance, including: Border inspection(documents review, field inspection, close inspection, random sampling), Orders to undergo inspection; Safety control in distribution(domestic supply chain): Collection and inspection of imported food products, Inspection of overseas direct purchase of food products; etc.