Proposed Draft Amendments to the "Standards and Specification for Health Functional Foods"

Regular notification 2019-05-06
G/SPS/N/KOR/641

Description

The proposed amendments seek to:
1. Reflect the changes of "Food Code" and "Food Additives Code";
2. Add the unit, IU (International Units for daily intake), in "Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E";
3. Revise the daily intake amount in "Glucosamine";
4. Remove repeated phrase ('less than 2% of threonic acid') in "Vitamin C";
5. Add testing methods of 'Solvent residue' in "Oenothera biennis extract";
6. Revise the health claims in "Garcinia cambogia extract" and "Marigold flower extract";
7. Revise the numbers, typos and contents in "testing methods".

Keywords

Human health; Food additives; Food safety