South Korea proposes amendment to the standards and specification for Health Functional Foods The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has proposed amendment to the standards and specification for Health Functional Foods, which seeks to; 1. Require manufacturer to follow Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP); 2. Clarify the list of ingredients approved to be used in enteric capsule, granule, tablet; 3. Expand the scope of approved ingredients can be mixed into semi-processed products to include oils and fats; 4. Establish standards of lead and cadmium in functional ingredients whose standards are not established; 5. Revise expression in standards and specifications "A~B" to "more than A and less than B"; 6. Establish standards for acid value and peroxide value in "Edible Oil contain EPA and DHA"; 7. Amend the name of a functional ingredient: Change "Lutein" to "Tagetes erecta Extract"; 8. Revise test methods for functional ingredients (Ginsenoside). Products covered: Health functional food products HS Code: 07020000, 110412, 1201, 2002, 2009, 210690, 22029910 Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): To be determined. Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): To be determined. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or(dd/mm/yy): To be determined. Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 24 December 2017 | 
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