The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea (Minister: Oh Yu-Kyoung) announced an administrative notice with revision of the Standards and Specifications for Health Functional Foods on July 25, which includes the addition of ‘Warning notice for intake’ for 9 f...

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea (Minister OH Yu-Kyoung) and the National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality (SENASA) of the Argentine Republic signed the ‘Korean-Argentine Arrangement on the Safety of Fishery Products’ on August 10, aiming to en...

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (Minister Oh, Yu-Kyoung) will hold a bilateral collaboration meeting with the DAV* delegation on September 14th at MFDS(Osong, Cheongju city) to support cosmetics exports. * DAV : Drug Administration of Vietnam, a regulatory authority under the Ministry of Healt...

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (Minister Oh Yu-Kyoung) is holding the 3rd MFDS Global Conference on Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance (GCFA) on September 12 and 13 under the theme, “The One Health approach and efforts to tackle AMR” in Seoul.

Cosmetics Exports Record 10 Trillion for 2 Consecutive Years Diversified Export Markets, Southeast Asia, Central Asia - MFDS announces statistics data of cosmetics production·import·export for 2022 - Trade balance records 8 trillion 600 billion won ($6.6 billion) in 2022 - Korea ran...

MFDS publishes a compilation of analytical methods to support drug manufacturers’ efforts to control mutagenic impurities including nitrosamines - The compilation features 24 analytical methods used for determination of mutagenic impurities that can be mixed into the products during manufactu...

Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) published 2023 Ministry of Food and Drug Safety White Paper. ‘Ministry of Food and Drug Safety White Paper’ is published every year as a guidance to follow MFDS’s policies and implementations on food and drug safety over the past year. MFDS ho...

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (Minister Oh Yu-Kyoung) exercised Korea’s leadership in global regulations and sought ways to help Korean medical devices to beexported at the GHWP TC Leaders meeting, which was held in Shenzhen, China on 14th and 15th June.

- Minister Oh Yu-kyoung, elected as the inaugural chairperson of APFRAS - Adopted the "APFRAS Seoul Declaration", pledging to strengthen a close cooperation system among APFRAS members - Committed to leading international cooperation on food safety and supporting domestic food exports by removing ...

- Korea launches world's first cooperation channel among senior representatives of food regulatory authorities - Establishment of international coordination system for food regulatory convergence in the Asia-Pacific region - MFDS to lead global standards and resolve non-tariff barriers in the food...