Reorganize agricultural product safety inspections around wholesale and retail distribution

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A proposal was made in the National Assembly to reorganize agricultural product safety inspections, which are currently concentrated excessively in production areas, to focus on distribution stages such as wholesale and retail, similar to the United States or Germany. The suggestion is to expand the inspection scope of the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service to include import customs clearance and wholesale markets, while readjusting the roles of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety to concentrate on inspections at the retail stage. On October 29, Song Ok-ju, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea (Gyeonggi Hwaseong-gap) and the National Assembly Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, and Fisheries Committee, [reviewed] the ‘2… submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.

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