South Korea releases some amendments to the "Code of Health Functional Food" to increase the production method of probiotics
Food Safety News
2020-07-13
Global Foodmate
Foodmate News: On July 10, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea (MFDS) issued a notice No. 2020-63, amending part of the " Code of Health Functional Food ", the main contents are as follows:
1. Increase the probiotics production process and expand functional probiotics content: conventional probiotic product provides only the 19 kinds of microorganism dry form after culturing to produce, after modifying, products through culturing probiotic is no longer necessary for the individual certified health functional food review.
2. Increase the production method so that it can be produced as a liquid product and expand its functional content.
3. When conducting the water-soluble vitamin content test of soft capsules, the operator can verify whether the content of water-soluble vitamins of soft capsules meets the relevant standards and specifications through the test method submitted by the company.
4. Increase the content of vitamin E and vitamin C certification.
5. Increase the functional content of ginseng: When the new functional content of the notice-type raw materials is individually certified, it takes a certain transition period to be published in the standard specifications of the notice-type raw materials. Therefore, the standards and specifications are revised to add the functional content ginseng to the notice.
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