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Safety Inspection

Safety Inspection

Purpose
To prevent nonconforming products from circulating and provide safe fishery products to the public by doing hazardous substance safety investigation before the production, storing, and shipment of fishery products.
To increase the value of fishery products by increasing the quality, and contribute on national health by providing safe fishery products
Legal Basis
  • Article 61 of Agricultural and Fishery Products Quality Control Act (safety investigation)
  • Regulation on indication of genetically modified agricultural and fishery products, and safety investigation of agricultural and fishery products
  • Guideline on safety inspection of fishery products (Notification of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. (MFDS))
  • Regulation on delegation and consignment of executive authority Article 18.5, and Article 41.2(5)
Objects for Inspection
  • All produced, stored, and shipment fishery products that is just before being traded
    • Production stage: All fishery products that will be shipped without being stored
    • Storing stage: All fishery products that producer store
    • Shipment stage (just before the trade): Fishery product that are shipped to wholesale market, storage area, joint market, or consignment sale market and it is just before being traded
Hazardous substance subject to inspection
  • Heavy metals, antibiotics, organic pollutants residue, pathogenic microorganisms, biological toxin (shellfish toxin), radiation, etc
  • Safety standards on hazardous substances are based on Food Sanitation Act Article 7 (regulation and standard on foods or food additives)
Investigation process
In accordance with Article 61 of the Agricultural and Fishery Products Quality Control Act, shellfish toxin surveys on shellfish living in coastal waters are conducted by the National Institute of Fisheries
Failing of inspection
  • Notify the producer to postpone the shipment, change the usage, or dispose the fishery product
  • Notify the fish farm to suspend any shipment temporarily
    If none of the actions above (postpone the shipment, change the usage, or dispose the fishery product) are implemented, there will be a imprisonment of up to 1 year or a fine of up to ₩10,000,000