Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announces results of reassessment of functional ingredients for healthy functional foods in 2020
South Korea
Dec 30, 2020
These 12 materials come from two groups, namely those from 1) the pre-defined list of materials and those which have been 2) individually recognised by the ministry after evaluating the safety and functionality data of a particular ingredient as submitted by businesses.
Functional ingredients are: Red ginseng, ginseng, chlorella, difficult-to-digest maltodextrin, aloe gel, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), milk thistle extract, and marigold flower extract, Lyprinol green-lipped mussel extract oil, silk fibroin extract bf-7, APIC soybean embryo hydrothermal extract, and lutein zeaxanthin complex extract from marigold flower.
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