Foodmate News: On July 7, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea (MFDS) issued the Announcement No. 2020-287, which intends to revise some of the contents of the "Inspection Methods for imported Animal Products". The main contents are as follows:

1. imported animal products are subject to inspection fees, other than imported foods that exempted from the inspection fee in Schedule 15 of the "Implementation Rules for the Special Law on the Administration of imported Food Safety".

2. Unify the import declaration and inspection target standards into the same date B/L of “animal products imported by the same company on the same date”; newly set the definition of “product name”, for meat, if separate mentioned in the Food Code such as the MRLs of veterinary drugs, pesticides or contaminants (liver, kidney, etc.), the sampling and inspection should be conducted in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Food Code.

3. Clearly specify the inspection items and methods for precision inspection and random sampling inspection.

4. Improve the precision inspection of overseas returned and unqualified livestock products.

5. In order to strengthen the safety management of the delivery of custody of inspection samples, the sender of inspection samples must be a livestock product transportation operator.

6. Disclosure of information about the initial precision inspection items, inspection information of meat for the first or new setting, and strengthening of standard specifications inspection (country of origin, category, overseas production plant).

The deadline for the solicitation of the above opinions is September 6, 2020.

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