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Framework Act on Agriculture, Fisheries, Farming and Fishing Villages and Food Industry.
Date of original text: 27 May 2009 (09 March 2011)
National Nutrition Management Act.
Date of original text: 26 March 2010 (29 December 2015)
Framework Act on Food Safety.
Date of original text: 13 June 2008 (02 December 2016)
Seafood Industry Promotion and Support Act.
Date of original text: 18 February 2020 (08 December 2020)
Wheat Industry Promotion Act.
Date of text: 27 August 2019
Act on the Promotion of Science and Technology for Food, Agriculture, and Forestry.
Date of original text: 27 December 2016 (18 February 2020)
Fishery Products Distribution Management and Support Act.
Date of original text: 27 March 2015 (24 March 2020)
Special Act on Imported Food Safety Control.
Date of original text: 03 February 2015 (10 June 2022)
Act on Tea Industry Development and Tea Culture Promotion.
Date of text: 20 January 2015
Act on Testing and Inspection in the Food and Drug Industry.
Date of text: 30 July 2013
Act on the Support for the Rice Processing Industry and the Promotion of Use of Rice.
Date of original text: 22 November 2011 (18 September 2018)
Salt Industry Promotion Act.
Date of original text: 22 November 2011 (22 June 2015)
Kimchi Industry Promotion Act.
Date of original text: 21 July 2011 (19 May 2020)
Food Service Promotion Act.
Date of original text: 09 March 2011 (20 July 2015)
Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act.
Date of original text: 25 May 2010 (21 December 2021)
Act on Origin Labeling of Agricultural and Fishery Products.
Date of original text: 04 February 2010 (30 November 2021)
Act on Promotion of Korean Traditional Liquor Industries.
Date of original text: 04 February 2010 (29 December 2020)
Support of Diet Education Act.
Date of original text: 27 May 2009 (15 June 2021)
Food Sanitation Act.
Date of original text: 06 February 2009 (10 June 2022)
Special Act on Safety Management of Children's Dietary Lifestyle.
Date of original text: 21 March 2008 (27 July 2001)
Special Act on Safety Control of Children’s Dietary Life.
Date of original text: 2008 (07 June 2011)
Food Industry Promotion Act.
Date of original text: 27 December 2007 (27 December 2022)
Health Functional Foods Act.
Date of original text: 26 August 2001 (18 May 2015)
Processing of Livestock Products Act.
Date of original text: 13 December 1997 (29 January 2004)
Grain Management Act.
Date of original text: 05 January 1994 (29 December 2020)
Enforcement Decree of the Act on Origin Labelling of Agricultural and Fishery Products.
Date of original text: 11 August 2010 (29 April 2022)
Enforcement Decree of the Food Industry Promotion Act.
Date of original text: 25 June 2008 (29 November 2022)
Enforcement Decree of the Management of Drinking Water Act (Presidential Decree No. 20241).
Date of original text: 06 September 2007 (10 May 2016)
Enforcement Rule of the Health Functional Food Act.
Date of original text: 31 January 2004 (20 November 2006)
Enforcement Decree of the Health Functional Food Act.
Date of original text: 18 December 2003 (19 June 2022)
Enforcement Decree of the Agricultural Products Quality Control Act (Presidential Decree No. 16444 of 1999).
Date of original text: 30 June 1999 (27 January 2010)
Enforcement Decree of the Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act.
Date of original text: 20 June 1998 (27 December 2022)
Prime Minister Order No. 1633 regarding to the Amendment to Implementation Rules of Special Act on Imported Food Safety Control.
Date of text: 31 July 2020
Amendment to Implementation Rules of Special Act on Imported Food Safety Control.
Date of text: 04 June 2020
Regulation for Approving Reliability of Certification.Assurance Agency for Labels, Advertisements of Foods and Livestock Products.
Date of text: 01 October 2016
Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Support for the Rice Processing Industry and the Promotion of Use of Rice.
Date of original text: 22 May 2012 (30 December 2016)
Notification No. 2023-64 of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) regarding to revising part of the Labeling Standard for Food, etc.
Date of text: 26 September 2023
Notification (No. 2019-57) of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety promulgating the Food Code.
Date of text: 03 July 2019
Notice 2019-1 of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety regarding to the Amendment of Food Additives Code.
Date of text: 09 January 2019
Pesticide MRLs in Food 2017.
Date of text: 29 November 2017
Ministry of Food and Drug Safety Annoucement No. 2016-45 promulgating the Foods Labelling Standards.
Date of text: 13 June 2016
Ministry of Food and Drug Safety Notice No. 2015–94 promulgating the Processing Standards and Ingredient Specifications for Livestock Products.
Date of text: 16 December 2015
Health Functional Food Code.
Date of text: 17 November 2011
Labeling Standard of Health Functional Food.
Date of original text: 31 January 2004 (22 March 2007)
Livestock Products Labelling Standards.
Date of original text: 02 July 1998 (26 March 2014)
FOOD ADDITIVES CODE.
Date of original text: 0000 (2019)
Notice No.2019-71 of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety publishing the “Partial Amendment of the Korea Food Additives Code".
Date of text: 26 August 2019