On May 10, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of South Korea issued Announcement No. 2021-199, which intends to amend part of the "Regulations on Inspection of imported Healthy Functional Foods". The main contents are as follows:

1. Modify the processing flow of advance import declaration for imported health functional foods. Clarify the processing flow of imported health functional foods declared in advance.

2. Clearly stipulate the inspection of the unqualified items of the health functional food imported again. Re-imported unqualified health functional foods are classified as precision inspection objects and will be inspected including unqualified items.

The deadline for soliciting opinions above is May 31, 2021.

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