On December 9, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea issued Notice No. 2024-79, amending part of the "Regulations on Functional Ingredients, Standards and Specifications Certification of Health Functional Food", which are mainly as follows:

The new regulations on the return of application materials and the processing of application materials: In order to simplify the review procedure of raw materials with audit experience, the return and withdrawal of less than two years are only reviewed and returned.