Response times may be slow due to COVID-19. Organic compliance deadlines and inspections may be delayed for businesses affected by this crisis. Visit our COVID-19 webpage to find pandemic-specific information »
Nuestros tiempos de respuesta pueden ser lentos debido al COVID-19. Los plazos de cumplimiento orgánico y las inspecciones pueden ser demorados para los negocios que se ven afectados por esta crisis. Visite nuestra página web de COVID-19 para encontrar información específica a la Pandemia »
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Operations located in the United States and certified to the National Organic Program (NOP) can ship to Korea through the US/Korea Equivalence Arrangement. The arrangement recognizes the NOP standards and the Korean standard as equivalent, with minor critical variances. The USDA National Organic Program (NOP) and the Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) signed the organic standards equivalency arrangement on July 1, 2014.
This arrangement only covers processed products, as defined by the Korean Food Code, produced in either country. Raw or unprocessed products cannot be traded between the United States and Korea through this equivalence.
"Refers to a food manufactured, processed, and packaged by adding food or food additives to food raw materials (agricultural, forestry, livestock, or marine products), transforming food raw materials (such as grinding or cutting) till their original forms cannot be recognized, or mixing such transformed ones or adding food or food additives to such mixture. However, where, without the use of food additives or other materials, the agricultural, forestry, livestock, or marine products are simply cut, peeled, salted, ripened, or heated (except the cases where heating is performed for sterilization or heating causes significant changes to those products) till their original forms can be recognized or where sanitary risks from treatment processes are not expected and food raw materials are simply treated so as to allow organoleptic identification of food quality, such food products are excluded from the definition of the processed food.”
CCOF has developed a helpful International Market Labeling Guide to explain labeling requirements for organic products sold in Korea. All products shipped to Korea must meet Korean labeling requirements. Send all labels to CCOF for approval prior to printing. To learn more, read the MAFRA Organic logo and labeling information instructions.
Download the Korean logo and learn more about international labeling requirements by visiting our Labeling and Logos page. Use of the Korean logo is optional for imported products. If the Korean logo is used, additional requirements apply.