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ROK Released Partial Revision List of Codex, and Set Test Methods for GME

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On June 26, MFDS released No.2020-55 Bulletin, and revised part of contents of Codex. Main contents are as follows:

1. Six types of aquatic products are added to acceptable raw materials list for food: Argis lar, Buccinum kushiroensis, Buccinum osagawai, Solenocera Melantho, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, and Sebastes mentella.

2. Food raw materials list is revised: revise scientific name of six food raw materials, integrate one repeated food raw material, clearly normalize application area of 5 food raw materials, and revise name of 5 food raw materials.

3. Test methods for GME are added.

4. Common test methods are revised.

5. The application standard of preservative in vegetable butter in Codex is revised according to revision of Codex Committee on Food Additives.