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Notifying Member: Republic of Korea

If applicable, name of local government involved:  

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Agency responsible: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

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Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Food products

4.

Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:

[X]    All trading partners  

[ ]      Specific regions or countries:  

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Title of the notified document: Proposed Amendments to the Standards and Specifications for Foods  Language(s): Korean  Number of pages: 185

http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/KOR/15_2640_00_x.pdf

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Description of content: The proposed amendment seeks to:

1.    Establish requirements for temporarily permitted raw food materials to be listed on the Standards and Specifications for foods;

2.    Establish and revise the maximum residue limits for pesticides in foods:

-     Establish maximum residue limits for ipfencarbazone, tefuryltrione, triafamone, imazapic and imazapyr and expand the range of target agricultural products to 27 products;

-     Revise the maximum residue limit for bistrifluron in Korean cabbages and cabbages;

3.    Revise the names of target foods for the application of veterinary drugs in foods:

-     Revise meat to muscle for the application of Novobiocin, etc.; and

4.    Revise the analytical methods for veterinary drug residues in foods.

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Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.  

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Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:

[ ]      Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard or related text)  

[ ]      World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number)  

[ ]      International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  

[X]    None

Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard? 

[ ] Yes   [ ] No

If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the international standard:  

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Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety Advance Notice No. 2015-137, 29 April 2015 (available in Korean)

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Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

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Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

[ ]      Trade facilitating measure  

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Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 4 September 2015

Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e?mail address (if available) of other body:

International Cooperation Office

Ministry of Food and Drug safety

#187 Osongsaengmyeong2-ro, Osong-eup, Heungdoek-gu Cheongju-si

Chungcheongbuk-do

363-700, Korea

Tel: +(82 43) 719 1559

Fax: +(82 43) 719 1550

E-mail: wtokfda@korea.kr

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Text(s) available from: [ ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e?mail address (if available) of other body:

Documents are available from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety website at http://www.mfds.go.kr. Also available from: 

International Cooperation Office

Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

#187 Osongsaengmyeong2-ro, Osong-eup, Heungdoek-gu Cheongju-si

Chungcheongbuk-do

Tel: +(82 43) 719 1559

Fax: +(82 43) 719 1550

E-mail: wtokfda@korea.kr