Taiwan drafts new regulations to ensure milk product clarity for consumers

The Taiwanese Ministry of Health and Welfare has published draft regulations that make it compulsory for dairy product manufacturers in the country to utilise clearer on-pack labels for various milk products, in hopes of increasing clarity for local consumers. “These new regulations have been drafted in order to increase the clarity of definitions of the terms used in [local dairy] regulations, so as to enable consumers to better understand product information and avoid confusion,”​ said the ministry via a formal statement. “These will cover all milk-related products in Taiwan, from fresh milk to skimmed milk, evaporated milk, condensed milk, flavoured milk, cream, infant formula and more.​ “The update will make current regulations more complete and facilitate better compliance by the local industry [particularly in terms of] product labelling management.”​ The draft regulations include eight areas of major changes to be made to existing policies, mostly concerning the wording to ...