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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/KOR/316 
6 March 2009  
 (09-1163) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd 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 number(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, or [   ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Proposed Amendments to the Standards and 
Specifications for Food Additives  Language:  Korean  Number of pages:   2   
6. Description of content:  To strengthen safety management on children’s favorite food, the 
draft regulation proposes amendments to th e standards for use of the following 14 food 
additives: 
Food Green No.3 (Fast Green FCF); Food Green  No.3 Aluminium Lake (Fast Green FCF 
Aluminium Lake); Food Red No.3 (Erythrosine ); Food Red No.40 (Allura Red); Food Red 
No.40 Aluminium Lake (Allura Red Aluminiu m Lake); Food Blue No.1 (Brilliant Blue 
FCF); Food Blue No.1 Aluminium Lake (Brillia nt Blue FCF Aluminium Lake); Food Blue 
No.2 (Indigocarmine); Food Blue No.2 Aluminium Lake (Indigocarmine Aluminium Lake); Food Yellow No.4 (Tartrazine); Food Yellow No.4 Aluminium Lake (Tartrazine 
Aluminium Lake); Food Yellow No.5 (Sunset Yellow FCF); Food Yellow No.5 Aluminium Lake (Sunset Yellow FCF Alumin ium Lake); and Food Red No.102 (New  
Coccine) 
For the purpose of harmonizing food additive standards with food classification under the 
Food Code, the regulation also proposes amendmen ts to the standards for use of Food Red 
No.2 (Amaranth) and Food Red No.2 Alum inium Lake (Amaranth Aluminium Lake). 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ] protect territory from other damage from pests.    G/SPS/N/KOR/316 
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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 N°)     
[ X ] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [   ] Yes   [ X ] 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 Noti ce No. 2009-66, 2 March 2009 (available in 
Korean) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
Propose 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  
12. Final date for comments: [   ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or ( dd/mm/yy ):  10 April 2009 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ X ] National Notification 
Authority, [   ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:    
International Trade & Cooperation Team 
Korea Food and Drug Administration #194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong-gu Seoul, 122-704 Korea Tel:  +(82 2) 380 1661 Fax:  +(82 2) 356 2893 
E-mail:  wtokfda@kfda.go.kr 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] 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 & Cooperation Team 
Korea Food and Drug Administration 
#194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong-gu Seoul, 122-704 Korea Tel:  +(82 2) 380 1661 Fax:  +(82 2) 356 2893 
E-mail:  wtokfda@kfda.go.kr