Currently the Department of Health divides things that can be orally ingested into the two categories of foodstuffs and medicines. Research and development for medicines, as well as their approval for sale in the marketplace, must go through rigorous testing, with an emphasis placed upon "efficacy." For food products, however, the primary considerations are "safety" and "cleanliness."
目前衛生署把可入口的東西分成食品和藥品兩種，藥品的研發與上市都要經過嚴格檢驗，著重在「有效性」；而食品則以「安全」與「衛生」為第一考量。