Taiwan Accreditation Foundation (TAF) has been requested to study the MAD (Mutual Acceptance of Data) of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) GLP (Good Laboratory Practice, GLP) by the Bureau of Standards, Metrology, and Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan since 2004 and launched the program “OECD GLP National Compliance Monitoring System” in 2006.

    TAF represents as the national GLP compliance monitoring authority in Taiwan under the program “OECD Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) National Compliance Monitoring System”. The main task of the national GLP compliance monitoring authority is to inspect, recognize and monitor that the test facility complies with the Principles of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as well as to maintain the registration of the compliance test facility under the program. The test facility can claim to be compliant with the OECD GLP and that its data is a true reflection of the results supported via the registration by TAF. However, whether the plan, purpose and test system of the study as well as the interpretation for the results of each study is suitable or not is the responsibility of each (inter)national regulatory authority which is in charge of submitting the data and evaluation, not included in the function and role of the national GLP compliance monitoring authority.