To facilitate the return of Taiwanese pork to the international market and in the interest of the health of domestic consumers, this year the Council of Agriculture made food safety a major policy objective. COA minister Lee Ching-lung has also proposed a concerted effort to eradicate FMD within ten years. But many experts in the animal husbandry industry are dubious, recalling that it took Argentina a century and the Netherlands 30 years to do so.
為了重回國際市場，也為了國內民眾健康著想，今年農委會特別以「安全農業」為施政主軸，農委會主委李金龍也提出「十年內消除口蹄疫」的口號，雖然很多畜牧界人士認為是「不可能的任務」，因為阿根廷為了消除口蹄疫花了一世紀，荷蘭也花了 30 年。