G/SPS/N/KOR/462  
 
20 November 2013  
(13-6391)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; IC S numbers should be provided in 
addition, where applicable): Feed 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[ ] All trading partners   
[X] Specific regions or countries: Japan  
5. Title of the notified document: Temporary safety measure on Japanese imported feed  
Language(s): Korean  Number of pages: 1 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/sps/KOR/13_4626_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content: These are temporary safety measures to protect public health 
and animal health from leaked water with radioactivity. 
1. Requiring test certificates on Cs, I from importers 
 Requiring prefectures:  
- Feed for fish, fish meal: Kanagawa, Tokyo, Hokkaido, Ehime, Kumamoto, Mie, 
Kagoshima, Aichi, Miyagi, Iwate, Chiba, Aomori 
- Others: Shizuoka, Aomori, Yamanashi, Saitama, Nagano, Iwate, Miyagi, 
Kanagawa, Chiba 
 The certificate should be issued by Japanese official laboratory or by Japanese 
government designated laboratory. 
 Effective Data: Valid from 26 December 2013 shipment. 
2. Revision of the standard of radioactivity material (134+137 Cs) 
 Previous: 370 Bq/kg 
 Revised: Feed intended for cattle and horse: 100 Bq/kg; 
Feed intended for pig: 80 Bq/kg; Feed intended for poultry: 160 Bq/kg; 
Feed for fish: 40 Bq/kg; 
Others: 100 Bq/kg. 
 Effective Data: 25 October 2013. 
7. Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for urgent action: 
Water contaminated by radioactivity has been leaked in Japan. G/SPS/N/KOR/462 
 
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  9. Is there a relevant international stan dard? 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:   
10. Other relevant documents and langua ge(s) in which these are available:      
11. Date of entry into force ( dd/mm/yy )/period of application (as applicable):  
 Requiring test certificates on Cs, I from importers: Valid from 26 December 2013 
shipment 
 Revision of the standard of radioactivity material(134+137 Cs): 25 October 2013 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
Livestock Management Division  
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs  #94 Dasom2-ro, Seiong, Korea 
Tel: +(82 44) 201 2342 
Fax: +(82 44) 868 0127 E-mail: bluewin9@korea.kr  
13. Texts available from: [ ] National Noti fication Authority, [ ] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail a ddress (if available)  of other body:  
Livestock Management Division 
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs  #94 Dasom2-ro, Seiong, Korea Tel: +(82 44) 201 2342 
Fax: +(82 44) 868 0127 
E-mail: bluewin9@korea.kr