At a seminar on global food safety in late March, Sheu Fu, an assistant professor in National Taiwan University's Department of Horticulture, stated that genetically modified foods (GMFs) had also served to accelerate the development of food traceability systems.
3 月下旬台灣大學園藝系助理教授許輔，在貿協主辦的「全球食品安全趨勢」研討會上發表演說指出，除了狂牛症外，基因改造食物也是加速推動食品追溯制度的原因。