Proposed Amendments to the Import Health Requirements for Natural Casing derived from Cloven-Hoofed Animals

Regular notification 2018-10-30
G/SPS/N/KOR/621

Description

The proposed amendment seeks to:
1. Revise requirements for Salted natural casing derived from cloven-hoofed animals as following, in accordance with the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code article 15.1.23 and article 8.8.38.
In case that salted natural casings derived from pigs are originated from countries(regions) that are not allowed to export pork meat to the Republic of Korea, the natural casings must be salted for at least 30 days with dry salt, saturated brine(Aw

Keywords

Food safety; Animal health; Human health