The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea issued announcement No. 2022-172 on April 13 to revise part of the “Codex of Food Additives”. Some main points are as follows:  

1. Nicotinic acid can only be used in special nutrition food, special medical food, health functional food and nutrient fortified flour.  

2. In instrumental bactericide and disinfector, 22 ingredients including nonanoic acidwhich was never applied will be deleted from the authorized catalogue.

The above comments will be solicited until June 12, 2021.

The collection of comments on above revisions will last until June 12, 2021.