South Korea Act on Prevention of Contagious Animal Diseases (가축전염병예방법) — Import Prohibition of Animal-Product Feed
Source: Act on Prevention of Contagious Animal Diseases (가축전염병예방법), Republic of Korea, first-hand text from the Ministry of Government Legislation national law portal (law.go.kr), rendered via Seoul relay Playwright on 2026-07-24. Status: in force.
This Act is the legal basis for pet-food / animal-product import quarantine in the Republic of Korea. Article 32 (Prohibition of Import) flatly prohibits importing certain goods — including those originating from Foot-and-Mouth-Disease-affected countries/regions and infectious-disease pathogens — which is the statutory hook behind the pet-food import-health requirements (cf. MAFRA Notice 2025-20 already in the repo). The claims below are verbatim Korean sentences from the Act as published on law.go.kr.
Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)
제32조(수입금지) ① 다음 각 호의 어느 하나에 해당하는 물건은 수입하지 못한다. <개정 2013. 3. 23., 2013. 8. 13., 2020. 2. 4.>(Article 32 (Import Prohibition) (1): goods falling under any of the following items may not be imported.)2. 동물의 전염성 질병의 병원체(Item 2: pathogens of infectious animal diseases — an enumerated prohibited import item.)3. 소해면상뇌증이 발생한 날부터 5년이 지나지 아니한 국가산 30개월령 이상 쇠고기 및 쇠고기 제품(Item 3: beef and beef products of 30 months of age or older from a country where BSE occurred, within 5 years from the occurrence date — a prohibited import item.)
Source: pdf-raw/kr-import/contagious_animal_disease_act.txt — first-hand Act on Prevention of Contagious Animal Diseases text (law.go.kr), pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright.