The Korea Health Functional Food Association holds a signboard ceremony for regulatory science professionals designated by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
Aug 12, 2025
|
Regulatory science' is a science field that evaluates the safety, effectiveness, quality, and performance of food and drugs, and encompasses the necessary technologies, standards, and approaches in the entire process from licensing and use. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is actively promoting professional human resources training and research and development for the development of such regulatory science.
The designation is the result of the comprehensive recognition of the educational achievements accumulated by the Dry Food Association as a specialized institution in the field of health functional food, regulatory science-based expertise, and industry reliability. In particular, this is the first time that it has been designated as a 'regulatory science professional training institution' in the field of health functional food, and it is expected to play a pivotal role in strengthening the competitiveness of related industries in the future.
Earlier, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety designated a total of four institutions in the food sector as institutions to train regulatory science experts to develop regulatory science and strengthen expertise. Designated institutions include ▲ Korea Health Functional Food Association, ▲ Korea University Sejong Campus Food Regulation Science Department (Functional Evaluation), ▲ Seoul National University of Science and Technology Industry Cooperation Group (Food Ingredients), and ▲ Korea Food Safety Management Certification Institute (Food and Livestock Products HACCP).
The Dry Food Association has already operated training for practitioners in the field of health functional foods since 2022, and has recorded about 1,500 cumulative students so far. The annual average number of students is continuously increasing, and educational satisfaction is also steadily maintaining a high level of educational satisfaction of more than 4 points based on 5 points.
The current regulatory science professional training course is ▲ Individually recognized Part.1 ▲ Individually recognized Part.2 ▲ Health functional food BASIC ▲ Display and advertisement Part.1 ▲ Display and advertisement Part.2 ▲ GMP Four Standards and document management ▲ Theory and practice of setting the expiration date, all of which are conducted as offline field training.
The curriculum can be found on the website of the Health Functional Food Education Center.
An official from the Dry Food Association said "We will continue to contribute to the development of the health functional food industry through training of regulatory science experts in the future."
Reporter Kim So-hyung compact@sportschosun.com
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
