National legislation

The Act further provides for: criteria for facilities engaged in the manufacturing, processing, transportation, sale and preservation of food; powers of the Commissioner of the Korea Food and Drug Administration to determine Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points; licensing of cooks and nutritionists; establishment of the Food...

The Act further provides for: preparation of emergency response plans to prevent or minimize harm to public health; orders of inspection; safety management of new food products; management and disclosure of information on food safety; consumer participation; etc. ...

This Law is targeted toward safe food, proper nutrition, and healthy children and to establish a goal to protect children's health against pernicious ingredients, food poisoning and obesity by improving the environment of circulation and consumption conditions of children's preferred food and food services. In particular,...

The remaining part of this Decree contains penal provisions and provisions of miscellaneous nature. ...

The Act further provides for: inspection measures; good manufacturing practice regulations; health functional foods which must not be sold, manufactured, imported, used, stores transported or displayed for sale; the establishment of the Health Functional Foods Deliberation Committee; administrative sanctions, corrective orders and revocation of licences; penalties;...

This Act provides for matters concerning the slaughter and dissection of livestock, the processing, distribution and inspection of livestock products, the sanitary treatment of livestock products and the improvement of their qualities, contributing to the sound development of the livestock industry and to the improvement of...

Drinking water-related businesses shall be furnished with the facilities which meet the standards as prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Environment and shall obtain a permission for business operation. A quality manager shall be hired and shall control the quality of drinking spring water,...

The purpose of this Act is to protect producers and consumers by guaranteeing the right of consumers to be informed and inducing fair trade by having the producers indicate the country of origin of agricultural and fishery products or the processed products thereof, etc. in an...