. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/KOR/163 
16 August 2004 
 (04-3438) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   REPUBLIC OF KOREA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved: 
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Health and Welfare 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Health  Functional Foods 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any 
trading partner  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Proposed Draft 
Amendment of Ministerial Ordinance of the Health Functional Foods Act 
6. Description of content:   
- Amendment of the facilities criteria for health functional foods manufacturing 
businesses:  Business operators with permits for both pharmaceutical manufacturing and health functional food manufacturing businesses may use the pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities to produce health f unctional foods if the Commissioner of 
KFDA ensures that there is no possibility of  contamination or other negative effect. 
- Mitigation of mandatory laboratory testi ng requirements for all health functional 
foods under the minimum import amount provisi on:  additional laboratory tests are to 
be administered only when the same pr oduct, which has successfully passed the 
previous laboratory test with less than the minimum import amount, is imported in 
larger amounts than the minimum import am ount determined by the Commissioner of 
KFDA. 
- Mitigation of the facilities criteria for place of business for health functional foods 
sales. 
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, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:    G/SPS/N/KOR/163 
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 9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  MOHW  Public 
Notification 2004-146 (Published in the Korean Official Gazette 7.29;  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:  60 days after notification 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or addr ess, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:    
Trade Affairs Division 
Ministry of Health and Welfare 
1 Jungang-Dong, Kwacheon-City, Kyoungi -Do, 427-760, Republic of Korea 
Tel:  +82-2-2110-6458;  Fax:  +82-2-504-3981;  E-mail:  bhang@mohw.go.kr  
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: 
Trade Affairs Division 
Ministry of Health and Welfare 1 Jungang-Dong, Kwacheon-City, Kyoungi -Do, 427-760, Republic of Korea 
Tel:  +82-2-2110-6458;  Fax:  +82-2-504-3981;  E-mail:  bhang@mohw.go.kr