Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point

WTO code	G/SPS/N/KOR/825
Date notice	24/07/2025
Notice type	Regular
Title	Proposed amendments to the Standards and Specifications for Food Additives - Advance Notice No. 2025-316, 22 July 2025.
Summary	The Republic of Korea is proposing to amend the "Standards and Specifications for Food Additives". The main points of the amendments are as follows: 1) The composition system of the "Standards and Specifications for Food Additives" will be reorganized. Especially, nutrient fortifiers and processing aids will be listed separately from general food additives; 2) Specifications for enzymes (39 items) will be revised; 3) Conditions of use for modified hop extract and vitamin K1 will be revised; 4) General test methods for food additives will be revised.
Product	Food additives
Country	Korea, Democratic Peoples Republic of

File attach:
NKOR825.pdf

Orther Notice:

G/SPS/N/CHL/727/Rev.1/Add.2 - Resolución Exenta No 5.042/2025 que aprueba texto coordinado y sistematizado de la Resolución que establece requisitos de importación para estructuras subterráneas de reproducción vegetativa de especies ornamentales; actualiza requisitos de las especies que indica y deroga Resolución No 3.418 de 2002
G/SPS/N/EU/864 - Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1400 of 16 July 2025 concerning the authorisation of peppermint essential oil from Mentha × piperita L., clary sage essential oil from Salvia sclarea L. and sage essential oil from Salvia officinalis L. as feed additives for all animal species (Text with EEA relevance).
G/SPS/N/EU/865 - Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1402 of 16 July 2025 concerning the authorisation of tea tree essential oil from Melaleuca alternifolia (Maiden & Betche) Cheel as a feed additive for all animal species (Text with EEA relevance)
G/SPS/N/EU/866 - Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1403 of 16 July 2025 concerning the authorisation of Spanish sage essential oil from Salvia officinalis ssp. lavandulifolia (Vahl) Gams and lavender essential oil from Lavandula angustifolia Mill. as feed additives for all animal species (Text with EEA relevance).
G/SPS/N/EU/867 - Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1424 of 17 July 2025 concerning the renewal of the authorisation of biotin and two preparations of biotin as feed additives for all animal species and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/723 (Text with EEA relevance).
G/SPS/N/EU/868 - Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1441 of 18 July 2025 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 on the temporary increase of official controls and emergency measures governing the entry into the Union of certain goods from certain third countries implementing Regulations (EU) 2017/625 and (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).
G/SPS/N/EU/869 - Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1417 of 17 July 2025 concerning the authorisation of Spanish type origanum essential oil from Thymbra capitata (L.) Cav. as a feed additive for all animal species (Text with EEA relevance).
G/SPS/N/GBR/94/Corr.1 - Proposed GB MRLs for emamectin amending the GB MRL Statutory Register
G/SPS/N/JPN/1308/Add.1 - Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards, final rule)
G/SPS/N/JPN/1309/Add.1 - Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards,final rule)
G/SPS/N/JPN/1310/Add.1 - Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards, final rule)
G/SPS/N/JPN/1311/Add.1 - Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards, final rule)
G/SPS/N/JPN/1312/Add.1 - Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards, final rule)
G/SPS/N/JPN/1313/Add.1 - Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards, final rule)
G/SPS/N/JPN/1314/Add.1 - Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards, final rule)
G/SPS/N/KEN/343 - DKS 3037:2025 - Code of practice for the prevention nd reduction of mycotoxin contamination in cereals.
G/SPS/N/THA/793 - Draft Ministry of Public Health Notification (MOPH), No. ... B.E. ..., entitled "Food in a Hermetically Sealed Container".
G/SPS/N/USA/3520 - Triclopyr; Pesticide Tolerances. Final Rule.
G/SPS/N/USA/3521 - Acetamiprid; Pesticide Tolerances. Final rule.
G/SPS/N/USA/3522 - Cypermethrin; Pesticide Tolerances. Final rule.
G/SPS/N/JPN/1339/Add.1 - Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)
G/SPS/N/KGZ/38 - Draft Decision of the Collegium of the Eurasian Economic Commission on Amendments to the Regulation on Common veterinary (sanitary and veterinary) requirements for goods subject to veterinary control (surveillance); and Draft Decision of the Collegium of the Eurasian Economic Commission on mendments to the Forms of the Common Veterinary Certificates for the Importation of Controlled Goods from Third Countries into the Customs Territory of the Eurasian Economic Union.
G/SPS/N/UKR/245 - The Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine No. 725 "On Amending Annex 1 to the Requirements for Food Flavourings With Smoke Aroma (Smoke Flavourings)" of 25 April 2025
G/SPS/N/CHN/15/Add.2 - Control Measures on Inspection and Quarantine of Import and Export GMO products (Revision)
G/SPS/N/CHN/21/Add.1 - Inspection and Quarantine Administration on imported animal origin products other than for human or animal consumption (Revision)
G/SPS/N/CHN/42/Add.5 - Measures for the Administration of Imported Wood Packaging Material (Revision)
G/SPS/N/CHN/80/Add.2 - Administrative Rules of Inspection, Quarantine and Supervision on Entry of Fresh Fruit (Revision)
G/SPS/N/CHN/109/Add.2 - The administrative measure for inspection, quarantine and supervision on import and export of feed and feed additives (Revision)
G/SPS/N/CHN/882/Add.1 - Measures of Inspection and Quarantine for the Entry and Exit Grain (Revision)
G/SPS/N/JPN/1359 - Draft revision of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Disease Control.
G/SPS/N/TUR/65/Add.4 - Turkish Food Codex Regulation Amending the Regulation on Classification and Maximum Residue Limits of Pharmacologically Active Substances in Foodstuffs of Animal Origin
G/SPS/N/EGY/158 - Draft of Egyptian standard ES 6933 for "Quick-Frozen Cauliflower".
G/SPS/N/EGY/159 - Draft of the Egyptian Standard ES 612 for "Blended Tobacco for Cigarettes".
G/SPS/N/EGY/161 - Draft of Egyptian Standard ES 1748 for "Green Peas".
G/SPS/N/EGY/160 - Draft of the Egyptian Standard ES 2063 for "Essential Requirements and Descriptive Criteria for Fruit-Flavored Maassel Tobacco".
G/SPS/N/EGY/162 - Draft of the Egyptian Standard ES-1521 for "Canned Finfish"
G/SPS/N/EU/863 - Draft Commission Implementing Regulation withdrawing from the market certain feed additives (Text with EEA relevance)
G/SPS/N/JPN/1355 - Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards).
G/SPS/N/JPN/1356 - Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards).
G/SPS/N/JPN/1357 - Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards).
G/SPS/N/JPN/1358 - Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)
G/SPS/N/GBR/103 - New GB MRL for potassium phosphonates amending the GB MRL Statutory Register.
G/SPS/N/GBR/104 - Proposed GB MRLs for fenamiphos amending the GB MRL Statutory Register.
G/SPS/N/GBR/105 - New GB MRL for acetamiprid amending the GB MRL Statutory Register.
G/SPS/N/KOR/824 - Proposed Amendments to the Regulation on the Declaration and Inspection of Imported Food Products, etc, - Administrative Notice No. 2025-289, 2 July 2025.
G/SPS/N/TPKM/645/Add.1 - The implementation of the amendment of the "Quarantine Requirements for the Importation of Plants or Plant Products"
G/SPS/N/TPKM/645 - Draft amendment of the "Quarantine Requirements for the Importation of Plants or Plant Products".
G/SPS/N/USA/3257/Add.1 - Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Gardenia (Genipin) Blue; Final Amendment; Order
G/SPS/N/EU/861 - Commission Implementing Regulation concerning the denial of the renewal of the authorisation of a preparation containing a smoke flavouring extract-2b0001 as a feed additive for dogs and cats and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1076/2014 (Text with EEA relevance)
G/SPS/N/EU/862 - Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1254 of 25 June 2025 concerning the authorisation of riboflavin produced from Eremothecium ashbyi CCTCCM 2019833, in the form of a dried inactivated fermentation product, as a feed additive for all animal species (Text with EEA relevance)