Act on Testing and Inspection in the Food and Drug Industry.

For the purpose of the present Act the term the term "fields of food and drugs" means fields related to any of the following: a) Food (including functional health foods under the Functional Health Foods Act), food additives, appliances, containers, or packaging under the Food Sanitation Act; b) Livestock products under the Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act; c) Pharmaceutical drugs, non-pharmaceutical items, traditional Korean medicine, and medicinal preparations under the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act; d) Medical devices under the Medical Devices Act; e) Cosmetics and raw materials used in cosmetics under the Cosmetics Act.
In particular, the purpose of this Act is to ensure the reliability of tests and inspections by prescribing matters concerning testing and inspection on food and drugs, the management of testing and inspection agencies, etc., and to contribute to the improvement of public health by contributing to facilitating the development of testing and inspection technology and to fostering and developing related industries. In particular, the Minister of Food and Drug Safety shall formulate and implement a master plan for the development of testing and inspection on food and drugs five-yearly for the improvement of the reliability of tests and inspections and the development of related industries, following deliberations by the Deliberative Committee on the Development of Testing and Inspection. Article 5 establishes the Deliberative Committee on the Development of Testing and Inspection on Food and Drugs under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Food and Drug Safety in order to deliberate on the following: 1) Matters concerning a master plan; 2) Matters concerning a testing and inspection management system and policies related to testing and inspection; 3) Other matters concerning testing and inspection, which are referred to discussion by the Minister of Food and Drug Safety. The text consists of 5 chapters divided into 30 articles as follows: General provisions (I); Designation, etc. of testing and inspection agencies (II); Management of ability of testing and inspection agencies (III); Supplementary provisions (IV); Penal provisions (V).