1. Reasons for Amendment

This Amendment ensures that consumers are provided with a variety of foods for patients by newly inserting standards and specifications on nutritional formulas for patients with lung disease.

It also amends standards on the use of Garcinia cambogia extract and amends maximum residue limits for 4 types of pesticides including molinate in food, thereby aiming to provide the public with safe food.

2. Major Provisions

 A. Newly insert nutritional formulas for patients with lung disease as a type of food and newly insert standards and specifications [5. 11. 11-1, 8. 2.1.5.4]

 1) Manufacturing standards are currently only available for foods for patients with certain conditions and for certain purposes, which limits the provision of products for a variety of conditions.

 2) Newly insert nutritional formulas for patients with lung disease as a type of food and newly insert standards and specifications.

 3) Improve the ease of meal management for patients with lung disease, and lay the groundwork for supplying a variety of food for special medical purposes.

 B. Amend standards on the use of food ingredients [Table 2]

 1) There is a need to amend standards on the use of Garcinia cambogia extract in accordance with the findings of a reassessment of food ingredients. 

 2) Amend standards on the use of Garcinia cambogia extract from “use up to 5% without exceeding an intake of 6 g” to “use up to 2% without exceeding an intake of 2.5 g.”

 3) Provide the public with safe food by ensuring the safety of food ingredients. 

 C. Amend maximum residue limits for pesticides [(80) Molinate, (146) Silafluofen, (175) Edifenphos, and (403) Flufenacet in attached Table 4]

 1) There is a need to reflect reassessed maximum residue limits for pesticides used in Korea and abroad.

 2) Amend maximum residue limits for 4 types of pesticides including molinate.

 3) Provide the public with safe food by making reasonable amendments to maximum residue limits for pesticides in agricultural produce.