Format innovation opportunity: South Korea to allow VMS to be made into jelly, film, and disintegrating tablets
South Korea is allowing vitamins, minerals, and supplements (VMS) to be made into more types of dosage forms, with jelly, film, and disintegrating tablets added into the list of permitted formats for VMS.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) announced that said such new products could hit the market as early as next year.
Currently, the permitted dosage formats for VMS are powder, granules, capsules, effervescent tablets, chewable tablets, pills, troche, syrup, and liquid solution.
Probiotic regulations in APAC: Everything you need to know on latest developments in SEA, China, Korea and Middle East
Regulators across Asia Pacific are paying more attention to the rapidly growing probiotic market and have introduced new policies to keep up with the category’s development, said regulatory specialists on the third day of our Probiota Asia digital summit.
Organised by NutraIngredients-Asia, the theme of the day was “Opportunity Asia and Middle East: Regulations and Market Access Decoded” – featuring insights in the probiotic regulatory development space across Southeast Asia, South Korea, China, and the Middle East.
With the rapid growth of the probiotic industry, regional regulators are now stepping up to regulate the category.
Taiwan regulator proposes new rules for nutrition claims, including vitamin requirements
The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration has proposed new changes to the “Regulations on Nutrition Claim for Pre-packaged Food Products”, including specifying the protein, B vitamins, folic acid, and biotin requirements for different groups of individuals.
In its announcement last month, the Taiwan FDA also proposed that the changes will be applicable to pre-packaged foods for infants, toddlers, and special medical purposes – food categories which now fall under the bigger umbrella of pre-packaged foods.