. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/KOR/167 
18 February 2008 
 (08-0706) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   REPUBLIC OF KOREA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Korea Food and Drug Administration 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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):   Health functional food 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proposed amendment 
of ‘Labelling Standard of Health Functional Food’ (10 pages, in Korean). 
6. Description of content:    
- To allow exceptions in the type size on labe ls of small-package products by permitting the 
use of smaller print types  
- Simultaneous use of the emblem and the writing to represent health functional food - To indicate daily intake instead of serving size for nutrition and functional information   - To improve labelling of nutrition informa tion by requiring contents of vitamins and 
minerals to be labelled for h ealth functional food other than vitamin or mineral supplement  
- To reset allowable tolerances for discrepancies between labelled and measured nutrient 
values  
- To clarify labelling of function info rmation by deleting redundant or unnecessary 
information, and declaring functionality la id down in standards and specifications or 
recognized by Commissioner of Korea Food and Drug Administration  
- To provide an unrestricted choice for colors of GMP certification emblem  
- To apply Labelling Standards for Foods, etc. for regulations which are also covered by 
Labelling Standards for Health Functional Food.  The cases include “Allergic ingredient”, 
“Irradiated product or ingredient”, “The standa rd illustration of ginseng”, “The standard 
statement for origin of ginseng”, “Daily  reference values”, “Recommended daily 
allowances for Koreans by age”, “Food additiv e that should label its name and intended 
use”, “Abbreviation and the main use of food additive”.  G/TBT/N/KOR/167 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health 
8. Relevant documents:   The Korea Food and Drug Administration Advance Notice No. 
2008-26 (12 February 2008)  (available in Korean). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   11 April 2008   
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Documents are available from the Korea F ood and Drug Administration website  
(www.kfda.go.kr ) and also available from: 
International Trade and Cooperation Team 
Korea Food and Drug Administration 
#194 Tongilro, Eunpyeong-gu  Seoul, 122-704 Republic of Korea   Tel: (+82 2) 380 1661~2 
Fax: (+82 2) 356 2893 
E-mail:  wtokfda@kfda.go.kr