• SouthKorea
• MFDS
• Strengthen
• Import
• Clearance
• Inspections
• Summer
• Food
• Ingredients

On June 3, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) issued a directive to strengthen the import clearance inspection of summer food ingredients.

• Japan
• MHLW
• Revise
• Food
• Standards
• Sausage
• Oil
• ChilliSauce

On May 30, 2024, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) issued several notices, including 550003936, proposing to revise a number of food standards. Some of the specifics include:

• Canada
• Approve
• Use
• Nisin
• Preservative
• Egg
• Whites

On May 30, 2024, Health Canada issued document M-FAA-24-04 to amend the list of permitted preservatives to approve the use of nisin in egg whites.

• SouthKorea
• MFDS
• Extend
• Application
• SAFE-i24
• System
• Imported
• Food

On May 20, 2024, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea announced that it will extend the application of the "Electronic Audit 24 (SAFE-i24)" system to all imported food products, which currently only applies to foo

• EAEU
• Add
• 12
• Pests
• List
• Quarantine

On May 13, 2024, according to the website of the Eurasian Economic Union Commission, the Council of the Eurasian Economic Union issued Decision No. 52, revising the list of quarantine objects.

• CAC
• Revise
• Regulations
• Use
• Ascorbyl
• Palmitate
• Food
• Additives

On May 27, 2024, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) issued consultation document No. CL2024/59-FA, proposing to revise the provisions on the use of food additives such as ascorbyl palmitate in some foods.

• US
• USTR
• Extend
• Tariff
• Exemptions
• Chinese
• Seafood
• Trade
• War

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) recently announced the duration of tariff exemptions for 164 Chinese goods, including eight seafood categories involving haddock, turbot, and crab meat.

• Poland
• Strengthen
• Quality
• Checks
• Imported
• Agricultural
• Products

As of May 16, Poland will intensify inspections of agricultural exchanges, especially seasonal and imported products, with the aim of controlling food products of foreign origin and providing consumers with safe food products, as well as controlling impor

• EU
• Amend
• Food
• Regulations
• Honey
• Jams
• Jellies

According to the Official Journal of the European Union, on May 14, the European Parliament and the Council issued Directive (EU) 2024/1438 amending the following directives:

• CAC
• Publish
• Sampling
• Plan
• Standard
• Methylmercury
• Fish

On May 18, 2024, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) published the Sampling Plan and Standard for Methylmercury in Fish, which includes definitions of relevant terms, methods for sampling by lot, expanded sampling methods, packaging and transport of s