Health functional food products

Proposed Amendments to Standards and Specification for Health Functional Foods. Language(s): Korean. Number of pages: 71

The proposed amendments seek to:

1)   Revision of specification, warning notice for intake, and daily intake amount:

-    Tighthen heavy metal specification of conjugated linoleic acids and chitosan/chitooligosaccharides;

-       Strengthen anthraquinone compound specification in aloe gel;

-    Alteration of daily intake amount of oat dietary fiber, chitosan/chitooligosaccharides, garcinia cambogia extracts, and aloe gel;

-    Amendment of warning notice of intake for 9 functional raw materials;

2)   Establishment of definition and test method for 'long-acting' product with delayed-release:

-    Limited to water-soluble vitamins;

3)   Improvement of manufacturing method of aloe gel;

4)   Unification of Folic acid units - ㎍ ⇒ ㎍ DFE.