On March 25, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of South Korea issued Announcement No. 2021-128, intending to amend part of the "Food Additives Code". The main contents are as follows:

1. In order to unify the management of natural fragrances and synthetic fragrances, newly set fragrance categories; delete 4 duplicated natural fragrance origin substances, add 2 internationally used natural fragrance origin substances, and modify the common names of 3 natural fragrance origin substances; The aliases of 7 synthetic fragrances have been modified, and 58 synthetic fragrances have been designated.

2. Increase the standards for the use of 16 kinds of colorants such as food coloring green No. 3 in health functional foods.

3. Provide the name, English name, scientific name, INS number and other information of 4 kinds of products including fatty acid glycerides in the form of a table.

4. Clearly stipulate the composition specification test method for two kinds of additives such as glycerin; modify the freezing point determination method in the general test method.

The above comments will be collected until May 24, 2021.

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