WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/SPS/N/KOR/400 
9 January 2012  
 (12-0050) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Korea Food and Drug Administration 
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):  Food additives 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Proposed amendments to the Standards and Specifications 
for Food Additives  Language(s):  Korean  Number of pages:  169 
 http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/sps/KOR/11_4446_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content:  The Republic of Korea is proposin g to amend the "Standards and 
Specifications" for the "Food Additives" and "Food Contact Surface Sanitizing Solution for 
Utensil": 
(1) Polyvinyl alcohol is newly authorized; (2) Mutastein, L-sorbose, crayfish color, and krill color are banned; (3) The compositional specifications of th e following 68 food additives are revised:    
 Cinnamic acid, ammonium persulfate, dis odium glycyrrhizinate, nicotinic acid, 
dibenzoyl thiamine, dibenzoyl thiamine hydr ochloride, maltol, methyl â-naphthyl 
ketone, dl-menthol, l-menthol, morpholine sa lts of fatty acids, vanillin, dry formed 
vitamin A, thiamine naphthalene-1,5-disulf onate, thiamine dilaurylsulfate, thiamine 
thiocyanate, oxalic acid, ethyl vanillin, methyl hesperidin, ion exchange resin, 
disodium DL-tartrate, potassium DL-bitart rate, sodium hydros ulfite, acetic acid, 
sodium carboxymethyl starch, taurine, DL-threonine, L-tyrosine, sodium 
pantothenate, polybutene, sodium polyacr ylate, monosodium fumarate, piperonal, 
disodium succinate, formic acid, itaconic acid, disodium 5'-cytidylate, disodium 5'-uridylate, L-lysine, L-theanine, ferric chloride, sodium oleate, ammonium molybdate, licorice extract, lactoferrin concentrates, kaolin, betaine, D-xylose, phytic acid, rosin, mucin, yucca extract, he me iron, rutin, gallic acid, cyclodextrin 
syrup, ã-oryzanol, chitin, hesperidin, en zymatically decomposed apple extract, 
sesame seed oil unsaponified matter, ga rden balsam extract, enzymatically G/SPS/N/KOR/400 
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  modified stevia, 5'-cytidylic acid, quercetin, ferulic acid, hyaluronic acid, crude 
magnesium chloride(sea water) 
(4) The standards for the use of the fo llowing seven food additives are revised:  
 Sodium saccharin, sodium metabisulfite , potassium metabisulfite, sulfur dioxide, 
sodium bisulfite, sodium su lfite, sodium hydrosulfite 
(5) Chlorine dioxide preparations which is  the food contact surface sanitizing solution 
for utensil is authorized. 
(6) Dodecyl phenoxybenzene disulfonic acid, tall oil fatty acids, sulfonated used for 
preparation of food contact surface sanitizing solutions are delisted. 
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. 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:    
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  The Korea 
Food and Drug Administration Advance Notice No. 2011-241, 19 December 2011 
(available in Korean) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure    G/SPS/N/KOR/400 
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  12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  15 January 2012 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
International Trade & Statistics Office 
Korea Food and Drug Administration 
#643 Yeonje-ri, Gangoe-myeon, Ch eongwon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do 
363-951,  Korea Tel:  +(82 43) 719 1554 Fax:  +(82 43) 719 1550 E-mail:  wtokfda@korea.kr 
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
Documents are available from the Korea Food and Drug Administration website at 
http://www.kfda.go.kr .  Also available from:   
International Trade & Statistics Office 
Korea Food and Drug Administration #643 Yeonje-ri, Gangoe-myeon, Ch eongwon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do 
363-951,  Korea 
Tel:  +(82 43) 719 1554 Fax:  +(82 43) 719 1550 E-mail:  wtokfda@korea.kr