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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/KOR/130
17 June 2003
(03-3218)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   REPUBLIC OF KOREA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   Korea Food and Drug Administration
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable):  Foods and food additives
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Revision of Safety
Evaluation Guidelines for Genetically Modified Foods and Food Additives
6. Description of content:  Scope, evaluation procedure, documentation/data requirements of
safety assessment for Genetically Modified Foods and Food Additives.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [ X ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[ X ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [   ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  The Korea Food and
Drug Administration Notice No. 2003-50 (7 June 2003) (Available in Korean)
10. Proposed date of adoption:   15 August 2003
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   27 February 2004
12. Final date for comments:  11 August 2003
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (ifavailable) of other body:G/SPS/N/KOR/130
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13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ] National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Division of Food Microbiology
Food Evaluation Department
Korea Food and Drug Administration
5 Nokbun-dong, Eunpyung-guSeoul, 122-704, Korea
Tel:  82-2-380-1682, 1683
Fax:  82-2-382-4892