Food products

Proposed Amendments to the Standards and Specifications for Foods. Language(s): Korean. Number of pages: 252

The proposed amendment seeks to:

1.    Revise the Manufacturing/Processing Standards to allow 'Beverage base' and 'Processed fruit/vegetable product' to be manufactured in tablets;

2.    Revise the Manufacturing/Processing Standards to allow acidic foods (pH of not more than 4.6) which require sterilization to be manufactured by pasteurization;

3.    Revise the Food Irradiation Standard to allow the use of X-ray for food irradiation;

4.    Exclude semi-processed bread products which are intended to be consumed after cooking from the application of limits for foodborne pathogens;

5.    Remove the standard for total chlorine in 'Edible salts';

6.    Revise the standards and specifications for prepared foods from food service business operator (including meal service facilities);

7.    Revise the Annex 1 'Ingredients Approved for Use in Food' and Annex 2 'Ingredients Approved for Limited Use in Food';

8.    Revise the applicable subject of the maximum residual limits of veterinary drugs in foods by including Roxarson and Arsanolic acid in the list of substances that shall not be detected in foods;

9.    Establish and revise the maximum residual limits of pesticides in agricultural products (160 pesticides including Iminoctadine);

10.  Establish and revise the maximum residual limits of veterinary drugs in foods (Arsanilic acid, Fluralaner, Gamithromycin);

11.  Establish the maximum residual limits of pesticides in livestock and fishery products (Pydiflumetofen);

12.  Revise the General Test Methods; 

13.  Reflect the amendments made in other laws and clarify some wordings.