KOR/695
WTO/TBT
KR Südkorea
  • 67 - Lebensmitteltechnologie
2017-02-11
2016-12-12

Health functional food products

Proposed Amendments for "Regulation on the Accreditation of Functional Ingredients and Standards/Specifications for Health/Functional Foods" (64 pages, available in Korean)

The proposed amendments seek to:

•  Revise definition of materials for functional ingredients to define compounds, extracts, refined products, etc.

•  Introduce an accelerated evaluation system for a functional ingredient composed of one-component, and tested by the MFDS authorized method

•  Withdraw accreditation certificate of functional ingredients when accreditation is revoked

•  Revoke functional ingredient grading