Agriculture & Food

On January 28, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of South Korea announced that the Ministry of Food and Drugs of South Korea will start to implement a "5-year cycle of precision inspection" on imported food and other * on February 22 this year. In order to facilitate the understanding of import operators, To improve the stability of the system, the "Q&A Information on the Implementation of the 5-Year Periodic Precision Inspection" was released.

*Food, food additives, utensils, containers, packaging materials, health functional foods, and livestock products imported from abroad to Korea.

This question-and-answer document includes the calculation method of the 5-year cycle, the confirmation method of whether or not it is subject to a close inspection, etc., etc.

The 5-year cycle inspection system is a system introduced to strengthen the safety management of imported food and other related products. It is a system for re-inspection of imported food that has been inspected or randomly sampled for 5 years.