. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/KOR/355 
13 January 2010 
 (10-0122) 
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 numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Food products 
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 Foods  Language:  Korean  Number of pages:  143   
6. Description of content:   
The proposed amendments establish standards: 
- for lead and cadmium in 11 agricultural items and meat by-products 
- for total aflatoxin in dry fruits 
- for mycotoxins in cereals and their simple processed products - for benzopyrene in processed cereal-based f oods and baby foods for infants and young 
children and smoked meat products - for lead in wine 
- for lead and cadmium in wheat flour 
This proposal reclassifies materials of plant origin considering characteristics of the plant 
for agricultural pesticide applications, and pr epares a list of pesticides that should not be 
detected.  It also establishes and revises maximu m residue levels of agricultural pesticides. 
By means of this measure, standards and test methods are established for 
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in fruit and vegetable beve rages, and standards are 
revised for Staphylococcus aureus in fishery products which can be directly consumed with 
no more processing or thermal treatment. 
The proposal revises test methods for:  - Bacillus cereus  
- paralytic shellfish poison and heavy metal 
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.    G/SPS/N/KOR/355 
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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 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. 2009-323 (30 December 2009) 
(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   
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  14 March 2010 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
International Trade & Statistics Office 
Korea Food & Drug Administration #194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong-gu Seoul, 122-704 Korea  
Fax:  +(82 2) 356 2893 
E-mail:  wtokfda@korea.kr 
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification  Authority, [X] 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 
(http://www.kfda.go.kr ).  Also available from:  
International Trade & Statistics Office 
Korea Food & Drug Administration 
#194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong-gu Seoul, 122-704 Korea Fax:  +(82 2) 356 2893 E-mail:  wtokfda@korea.kr