South Korea MAFRA Notice 2025-20 — Annex: Animal-Ingredient Heat-Treatment Conditions
Source: MAFRA Notification No. 2025-20, Annex (Conditions for Animal Ingredients, Art. 5.1). Status: in force (2025.2.7). Full continuous slice of the Annex heat-treatment table.
Allowed animal ingredients are listed in the Annex. For products from import-prohibited regions, mandatory heat treatment (core temperature / time):
- Pig-derived (Annex 3): core temperature at least 70℃ for at least 30 minutes, or equivalent.
- Poultry-derived (Annex 4): moist heat-treated for at least 30 minutes at 56℃, or whole-product internal temperature at least 74℃, or equivalent; extruded dry pet food exempt from heat-treatment.
- Poultry egg-derived (Annex 5):
- Whole egg liquid / powder: 60℃ for 188 seconds or 61.1℃ for 94 seconds
- Liquid egg white: 55.6℃ for 870 seconds or 56.7℃ for 232 seconds
- Liquid egg yolk: 60.0℃ for 288 seconds (10% salted yolk: 62.2℃ for 138 seconds)
- Egg white powder: 67℃ for 20 hours or 54.4℃ for 50.4 hours
- Egg yolk powder: 63.5℃ for 3.5 minutes
- Eggshell / shell-membrane powder: 60℃ for 507 s, 65℃ for 42 s, 70℃ for 3.5 s, or at least 73.9℃ for 0.51 s
- Rabbit-derived (Annex 6a): from farms free of myxomatosis & tularemia for 12 months pre-slaughter and hemorrhagic disease for 60 days pre-slaughter.
- Horse-derived (incl. donkey, mule) (Annex 6b): from farms in a state / province free of African horse sickness for 2 years pre-slaughter (no vaccination), and free of anthrax & glanders for 6 months pre-slaughter.
General sterilization (Annex 7):
- Moist heat 121℃ for 15–20 minutes or 115℃ for 35 minutes, hermetically sealed, room-temperature stable (ruminant-derived BSE-prohibited-region products excluded).
- Canned / bottled / retort: at least 120℃ for at least 4 minutes in hermetic seal, or F 0 value of 3.2 (ruminant-derived → only the 7(a) condition applies).
Dairy (Annex 8a): from FMD-free countries UHT (for at least one second at 132℃), LTLT (for at least 30 minutes at 63 to 65℃), or HTST (for at least 15 seconds at 72℃); from FMD-affected countries UHT or HTST twice.