KOR/604
WTO/SPS
KR Südkorea
  • 67 - Lebensmitteltechnologie
2018-08-31
2018-07-03

Food products

Proposed Amendments to the Standards and Specifications for Foods

The proposed amendment seeks to:

1.      Establish Manufacturing and Processing Standards for lunch boxes.

Specific requirements for disinfection of fruits and vegetables, cooling process before packaging and thawing of frozen fishery products.

2.      Add six aquatic species in the "Ingredients Approved for Use in Food" list. Northern propeller clam (Cyrtodaria siliqua), Goldstripe sardinella (Sardinella gibbosa), Patagonian scallop (Zygochlamys patagonia), Patagonian squid (Loligo gahi), Peruvian calico scallop (Argopecten purpuratus) and Scarlet shrimp (Aristaeopsis ewardsiana/Plesiopenaeus edwardsianus).