On April 29, the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) issued Announcement No. 2021-36, amending part of the "Methods and Standards for Field Inspections of Overseas Production Enterprises and Overseas Factories", the main contents of which are as follows:

1. Rectify the sanitation standards of overseas production enterprises and overseas factories.

-Similar and duplicate items of the sanitary standards of the merged manufacturing enterprises: 91 items → 71 items.

2. Rectify the checklist for overseas production enterprises.

-Merging similar and repeated items of food production and processing enterprises: 122 items → 80 items.

3. Rectify the checklist for overseas production enterprises.

-Merging similar and repeated items in the mammalian slaughterhouse: 164 → 160 items.

-Merging similar and repeated items of poultry slaughterhouse: 144 items → 142 items.

-Merging similar and repeated items of the meat packaging processing plant: 107 items → 102 items.

-Merging similar and repeated items of livestock product processing plants: 109 items → 105 items.

-Consolidate similar and repeated items in the edible egg packaging processing plant: 77 items → 76 items.

4. Rectify other provisions.

-Increase the time limit for overseas production companies to respond to the notice of on-site inspections of overseas production companies and overseas factories.

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