Korea Amended Food Additive Code

On Jun. 29, 2018, Korea MFDS announced the revision to “Food Additive Code”, including:

New food additive

Nickel now can be used as food additive specifically as a catalyst during the fat hardening process.

Food flavoring and fragrance

60 permitted substances for synthetic fragrance are revised and 28 are newly added. Besides, L- cysteine hydrochloride can now be used as a food flavoring.

Product standard

7 products such as manganese gluconate and L- cysteine hydrochloride have had their usage requirements updated. 5 aluminiferous food additives including aluminum ammonium sulfate have both application scope and usage requirement amended.

Testing standard

Protein analyzer testing method is newly included in nitrogen quantitative method

Other

Infant formula for Lactoprotein sensitized/allergic infant is a new sub-category of infant formula food (formula milk)