- 1 -MAFRA Notice No. 2019-480
According to Article 34.2 of the Act on the Prevention of Contagious Animal 
Diseases, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs(MAFRA) 
proposes public notice of the Import Health Requirements for animal-protein 
feed and publicly announces its main content and purpose of the notification to 
gather public opinion in accordance with Article 46 of the Administrative 
Procedures Act as follows.
                                               21. November 2019
                       Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
 Proposed public notice of Import Health Requirements
for animal-protein feed
1. Summary
 □The MAFRA is monitoring the global african swine fever (ASF) situation, 
and now the disease has spread across several countries in Asia, including 
South Korea for the first time in 2019, as well as several European 
countries. To prevent the introduction of ASF and other animal diseases 
of concern into South Korea, the MAFRA is proposing the new public 
notice to enhance risk management include: set heat-treatment 
requirements for animal-protein feed and the registration and approval 
process for plants eligible for export 
2. Supplementary information
A. Animal-protein feed ingredients and their production requirements
  ○Porcine origin products shall use ingredients with any porcine origin prodcuts 
from the exporting country or countries allowed to export pig or pork to - 2 -South Korea, or follow sterilization conditions*
     * Moist heat sterilization(121 ℃, 15~20 minutes, or 115℃, 35 minutes), dry heat 
sterilization( 160～170℃, for 1～2 hours)
  ○Poultry origin products shall use ingredients with any poultry origin 
products from the exporting country or countries allowed to export 
poultry or poultry meat to South Korea , or follow sterilization conditions*
     * Moist heat sterilization(121 ℃, for 15~20 minutes , or 115℃, for 35 minutes), dry heat 
sterilization(160 ～170℃, for 1～2 hours)
  ○ Animal-protein shall be produced and managed to avoid commingling or  
cross-contamination with ruminants protein
  ○ The processing, storage and transportation of animal-protein feed should 
be handled in such a manner as to prevent contamination by pathogens 
of infectious animal diseases 
 B. Conditions for plants eligible to export and on-site inspection
  ○ Plants eligible to export should be selected, authorized, and registered by 
a government of a exporting country in advance and then approved by 
on-site inspection or other methods by the Korean government 
     * Provided, that export plants have already exported animal-protein feed to South 
Korea, prior to the enactment of this notification, shall be deemed to have been 
approved pursuant to this notification
  ○The Korean Government will conduct the on-site inspection of export 
plants to regularly monitor heat-treatment conditions and prevention of 
cross-contamination
  ○ When the Korean government official finds out non-compliance with the 
import health requirements during the on-site insepction of the export 
plants, it will result in possible suspension of export to South Korea 
until corrective actions are in place
3. Dates: The MAFRA notice No. 2019-480 is effective when 
published in official gazette.