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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/KOR/148
20 November 2003
(03-6202)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   REPUBLIC OF KOREA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   Korea Food and Drug Administration
3. 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):  Pesticides, antibiotics, synthetic antimicrobials and patulin
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any
trading partners
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Proposed Amendment of
Food Code (Available in Korean, 90 pages)
6. Description of content:   
- Establishment and Revision of the Maxi mum Residue Limits (MRLs) in 40 food
commodities for 97 pesticides
- Establishment and Revision of the Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) in animal origin
foods for 74 pesticides
- Establishment and Revision of the Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) in meat for one
antibiotic and 10 synthetic antimicrobials
- Establishment and Revision of the Maximu m Residue Limits (MRLs) in fish and
crustacean for 3 antibiotics
- Establishment and Revision of the Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) in milk for 3
synthetic antimicrobials
- Establishment and Revision of the Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for eggs for one
synthetic antimicrobial
- Establishment and Revision of the Maximum Level (ML) in apple juice for patulin
7. 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
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[ X ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [   ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:G/SPS/N/KOR/148
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9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  The Korea Food and
Drug Administration Advance Notice No. 2003-108 (28 October 2003) (available in Korean)
10. Proposed date of adoption:   To be determined
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined
12. Final date for comments:  27 December 2003
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
International Trade & Information Office
Korea Food and Drug Administration#5 Nokbun-dong. Eunpyung-Ku
Seoul, 122-704 Korea
Fax: (82 2) 356 2893
E-mail: wtokfda@kfda.go.kr
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority, [   ] National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Documents are available from the Korea Food and Drug Administration website at
www.kfda.go.kr.  Also available from:
International Trade & Information OfficeKorea Food and Drug Administration
#5 Nokbun-dong. Eunpyung-Ku
Seoul, 122-704 KoreaFax: (82 2) 356 2893
E-mail: wtokfda@kfda.go.kr