Korean Dairy Products: Revision on Livestock Standards

South Korea Dairy Products Regulation

On 15 Jan 2016, Korea’s MFDS promulgated a series of amendments to the “Processing Standards and Ingredient Specifications for Livestock Products”.

1. Natural cheese: the scope of natural cheese is expanded to those using whey as the raw material.

Milk fat specifications will not apply to cheese made by low-fat milk processed products such as skimmed milk, low-fat milk and skimmed milk powder.

2. Milk formula processing standards: Carbon dioxide or a mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen can be used for packaging of milk formula.

3. Testing methods for milk formula

• Corresponding testing methods shall be established as new standards have been introduced for selenium.

• Machine analytical methods for niacin and b12 in milk vitamins.

• Testing methods for carbides are separately set up.

4. Testing methods for phosphatase in milk products are revised.