. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/KOR/325 
1 September 2011  
 (11-4287) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Korea Food and Drug Administration 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Children's favourite Food 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Proposed Amendment 
of the Standards for Quality Certificated Childre n Favourite Food (7 pages, available in 
Korean). 
6. Description of content:   
Revision of  nutrition standard  
- In Children's Favourite food that are safe and contains appropriat e level of nutrient, 
 'Good quality certification' can be acquire d voluntarily as long as the product meets 
 certain standards. The notif ication seeks to amend these standards the products must 
 meet to acquire certifications.   
- Current nutrition standard  stipulates that childre n favourite food (good quality 
 certification product) must m eet at least one nutritional re quirement for either protein 
 or fibre.  Also the same rule applies to nutrients, vitamin and mineral. Thus children 
 favourite food must satisfy at least two nutritional requir ements in total. 
- The proposed amendment is to delete su ch grouping of nutrients by considering 
 specific nature of food types and refl ecting on their production trend.  Under the 
 amendment, food must satisfy at least tw o nutritional requirement s out of all four 
 nutrients; protein, fibre, vitamin and mineral. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Provision of better information for co nsumers and promotion of public health  
8. Relevant documents:   The Korea Food and Drug Admi nistration Advance Notice No. 2011-
145 (29 July 2011) (Available in Korean)   G/TBT/N/KOR/325 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after the date of notification 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
Documents are available from the Korea Food and Drug Administration website 
http://www.kfda.go.kr  
Also available from:   
International Trade & Statistics Office  
Korea Food and Drug Administration 
643 Yeonje-Ri, Gangoe-My eon, Cheongwon-Gun 
Chungchungbuk-Do, 363-951 Republic of Korea Tel.:  (+82) 43 719 1554 Fax:  (+82) 43 719 1550 
E-mail:  wtokfda@korea.kr  
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