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d) Taiwan TFDA Verification Visit

Source: Food Safety and Quality Programme,MoH

• ISSUANCE OF EXPORT CERTIFICATE
In order to comply with the importing countries requirement, total of 66,296 export certificates were
issued throughout 2017 respectively 60,268 (90.9 per cent) health certificates, 5771 (8.7 per cent)
free sales certificates and 257 (0.4 per cent) of Non-Genetically Modified Food (Figure 5). Issuance
of export certificates can guarantee that the products exported from Malaysia are safe and this will
increase export demand for food products from various countries.

Figure 5
Export Certificate Issuance for 2017

Source: Food Safety and Quality Programme, MoH

INDUSTRIAL DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES 2017

MyFood Tag (Image 2) Registration is a mechanism of strengthening the food safety and traceability
along the food supply chain that focuses on the food safety requirement at certain check points/stages
along the food supply chain. For 2017, this activity was carried out through a pilot project involving

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