South Korea proposes Proposed Amendments to the "Standards and Specification for Health Functional Foods" 

Ministry of Food and Drug Safety 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.)

Products Covered:Health Functional Food Products

HS code:3004

Proposed date of adoption:To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force:To be determined

Final date for comments:3 April 2020

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