KOR/574
WTO/SPS
KR South Korea
  • 65 - Agriculture
  • 67 - Food technology
2017-10-27
2017-08-31
Health functional food products
Proposed Draft Amendments to the Standards and Specification for Health Functional Foods.

The proposed amendments seek to:

1.  Allow to apply standards and specifications of Codex Alimentarius or other advanced countries to vitamin/mineral supplement ingredients when they are listed in Health Functional Food Code but their corresponding specifications are not established in Food Code & Food Additives Code;

2.  Amend minimum daily intake of Vitamin D and Chrome in accordance with the revised Nutrient Reference Value;

3.  Add new clauses in standards for manufacturing of Iron and folic acid;

4.  Add a more detailed warning notice for intake of edible oil containing gamma-linolenic acid;

5.  Add amended test methods for 12 functional food ingredients.