On November 18, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of South Korea issued a message saying: The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of South Korea has issued the "Guidelines for Toxicity Test Methods, which are necessary for the safety inspection of functional additives and functional raw materials for food".

The guide details the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) standard on the most frequently used repeated toxicity tests in food and other toxicity tests, and provides help for food producers and sellers in developing food.

The main contents are: Trends in regulations related to toxicity tests in food and other fields; Principles, methods, evaluations and results reports of repeated poisoning tests; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development standard translation text (Korean), etc.

Application areas: food additives, functional raw materials for health functional foods, pesticide residues in food, genetically modified foods, food principles without standard specifications, etc.

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