These regulations are promulgated pursuant to the Paragraph 3of Article 37 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (hereinafter referred to as the Act).

Definition of the terms herein employed are as follows:
1. Testing institution: It refers to a testing body (institution), corporation, or group possessing the capacity to implementfood testing.
2. Accreditation: It refers to the procedure established under this set of regulations instituted to validatethe testing competence of a testing institution for a particular testing item.
3. Sanitation Standards: It refers to the permissible tolerance, standards, limitation standards, or provisional standards defined in Paragraph 2 of Article 15, Article 17, Paragraph 1 of Article 18, or Article 19 of the Act.