KOR/749
WTO/SPS
KR Corée du Sud
  • 67 - Technologie alimentaire
2022-06-19
2022-04-22

Food additives

Proposed amendments to the Standards and Specifications for Food Additives. Language(s): Korean. Number of pages: 13

The Republic of Korea is proposing to amend the "Standards and Specifications for the Food Additives":

1)     The standards for the use of nicotinic acid are revised. Nicotinic acid should be used only for Foods for particular nutritional uses, Foods for particular medical purpose, Food supplements and Nutrition-enriched wheat flour;

2)     22 active and inert ingredients for use in food-contact surface sanitizing solutions are deleted in the list: Acetic acid, chloro-, sodium salt, reaction products with 4,5-dihydro-2-undecyl-1H-imidazole-1-ethanol and sodium hydroxide; Benzenesulfonic acid, dodecyl-, sodium salt; Boric acid, sodium salt; Butanedioic acid, sulfo-, 1,4-dioctyl ester, sodium salt;  n-Carboxylic acids (C6-C12) [consisting of a mixture of not less than 56% octanoic acid and not less than 40% decanoic acid]; Chloromelamine (1,3,5-Triazine, N,N',N"-trichloro-2,4,6-triamino-); 3-Cyclohexene-1-methanol, α,α,4-trimethyl-; Fatty acids, coco, potassium salts; Fatty acids, tall-oil, sulfonated, sodium salts; Hydriodic acid; Lithium hypochlorite; Methylene blue; Nonanoic acid; Phenol, 4-(1,1-dimethyl-propyl)-; 9-Octadecenoic acid(9Z)-, sulfonated; 9-Octadecenoic acid(9Z)-, sulfonated, sodium salts; Oxychloro species; 2,4-Pentanediol, 2-methyl; Ethanol, 2-(2-ethoxyethoxy)-; Phenol, 4-chloro-2-(phenylmethyl)-; Phenylphenol ([1,1'-Biphenyl]-2-ol); Silver ions resulting from the use of electrolytically -generated silver ions stabilized in citric acid as silver dihydrogen citrate (does not include metallic silver).