Health Functional Food Code.

This Code establishes the standards and specifications for manufacturing, processing, production, import, distribution, storage, etc., of health functional food for sale. The Code promotes the distribution of standardized health functional food and assures the consumer’s safety through providing the standards and specifications for functional ingredients and final product for health functional food. The Code also intends to establish a transparent and scientific regulatory system of health functional food through providing regulatory guidelines to the authorized officers.
The scope of the Code is: 1) The standards and specifications regarding manufacturing, processing, production, import, distribution, storage, etc., of health functional food under the Chapter 14 of the Health Functional Food Act; 2) The ingredients or the compounds of health functional food under the Chapter 15 of the Health Functional Food Act; and 3) Regulation for labeling standards of health functional food under the Chapter 17 of the Health Functional Food Act.