Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) published 2021 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...

[Press Release, September 6, 2021 / Unofficial Translation] □ Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) holds virtuathe 1st MFDS Global Conference on Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance (GCFA) from September 6(Mon) to 8(Wed) in an effort to ramp up international cooperation for managing foodborne a...

[Press Release, July 20, 2021 / Unofficial Translation] □ On July 20, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS, Minister Kim Ganglip) signed agreements with FAO in an effort to support developing countries in Asia and Latin America for building capacity in foodborne antimicrobial resistance (...

[Press Release for Reference, June 15, 2021 / Unofficial Translation] □ The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS, Minister Kim Ganglip) published on June 15 the "2020 APEC Harmonization Center (AHC) Annual Report" both in Korean and English to share AHC's activities in medical Products regulato...

□ The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS, Minister Kim Ganglip)  announce an advance administrative notice on June 10 and receive opinions on the revision of 「Standards and Specifications for Health Functional Food」, which include addition of warning notice for intake of 8 functional ingred...

[Press Release for Reference, May 16, 2021 / Unofficial translation] □ According to a joint analysis on clinical trial authorizations, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS, Minister Kim Ganglip) and the Korea National Enterprise for Clinical Trials (KoNECT, President Bae Byoungjun) announce...

[Press Release for Reference, May 10, 2021 / Unofficial Translation] □ The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS, Minister Kim Ganglip) made an administrative pre-announcement on May 10 on the revision of the “Regulations on Inspection of Imported Foods, etc.”, which includes adjustm...

[Press Release, May 10, 2021 / Unofficial Translation] 1. Current Marketing Authorization Review Status □ On May 9, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS, Minister Kim Ganglip) convened a meeting of the COVID-19 Vaccine Safety and Clinical Efficacy Advisory Committee (hereinafter “the...

[Press Release, May 4, 2021 / Unofficial Translation] □ The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS, Minister Kim Ganglip) has announced that KeraSkinTM Skin Irritation Test (SIT), a locally developed alternative method to animal testing, was approved as an OECD Test Guideline (TG) in the 33rd Wor...

[Press Release April 30, 2021 / Unofficial Translation] On April 30, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS, Minister Kim Ganglip) released the revision of The Guidelines on Review and Approval of AR/VR-Based Medical Devices which is aimed at improving safety review method and clarifying prod...