The current Act requires food business operators to check production and distribution stages of harmful foods and report their recall plans and the results to the Minister of Food and Drug Safety or the head of the competent local government.
However, since procedures to set planned recall quantity and actual recall depend on the report of business operators and the basis for estimating the planned recall quantity is missing, etc., it is pointed out that it is difficult to trust the food recall process. Furthermore, at the time of hamburger disease controversies in 2016, because manufacturers and the trading partners who received harmful livestock products reported false inventory, there was even a case where the recall and disposal of the hazardous livestock products distributed to trading partners were not made.
Therefore, this amendment aims to eliminate public distrust in the recall process of harmful foods by requiring reporting the objective grounds, with a recall plan, for calculating the recalling details such as inventory confirmation documents and sales statements when reporting the plan, and requiring the trading partners of a relevant business entity to cooperate in identifying inventory, sales, etc. (Article 45 (1), (2), and Article 101 (1) 5 newly inserted).

Article 45 (Recall of Harmful Foods, etc.)