Health Functional Food Products

Proposed Draft Amendments to the "Standards and Specification for Health Functional Foods" Language(s): Korean Number of pages: 144

The proposed amendments seek to:

1.      Clarify the phrase of regulation

2.      Remove the range of "content of functional compounds (or marker compounds)"

3.      Revise the prerequisite for making health functional food using "propolis extracts"

4.      Revise the warning notices for intake of "Saw palmetto fruit extracts"

5.      Add new accreditation content for "Chitooligosaccharide"

6.      Revise the document for easy understanding

7.      Reflect the changes of "Food Code" and "Food Additives Code" 

8.      Revise the testing methods (chitosan, phosphatidicolin in phospholipid, etc.)