On July 1, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of The Republic of Korea revised part of the Implementation Rules of the Special Law on The Safety Management of imported Food. The main contents are as follows:  
   
1. The applicant who intends to register as an overseas manufacturing enterprise shall attach documents proving that the overseas manufacturing enterprise has been approved and registered in the exporting country to the registration application form, and submit them to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.  
   
2. Modify the import food safety management certification standards applicable to the enterprise certification process.   3) Narrowing the scope of the subjects which are subject to conditional import inspection: Previously, imported food products that received a notice of nonconformity within the last two years were excluded from the subject of conditional import inspection.  The previous regulation covered all countries that produce and process imported food, but now it will only be limited to producing countries.  
   
4. Expanding the scope of same food imported from the same company: not only for the precision inspection for the first time, but also for the random inspection of key inspection items specified by the Ministry of Food and Drug, the same food imported from the same company should also be well managed for a period of five years.