Food Manufacturing and Processing Business Registration

Procedure

Procedure

1. 01

   Confirm the business type and registration requirement: Determine from the sales method whether the business is an instant food manufacturing and processing business selling directly to consumers or a food manufacturing and processing business that also supplies other businesses and distributors. At this stage also check whether products such as fish cakes, confectionery, bread, rice cakes, beverages, cabbage kimchi and ready-to-eat foods listed in Article 62 of the Enforcement Rule, or products of premises with prior-year sales of 10 billion won or more, are subject to mandatory HACCP.

2. 02

   Check the site before signing a lease: Use the building register and the land use plan confirmation to check that a food factory can operate in the building, and review the septic tank, drainage and any use of groundwater. Because the registration authority checks these two documents directly through shared administrative data, registration is not possible if the building use does not match, even when the facilities are ready.

3. 03

   Design workplace zoning and facilities: The workplace must be a separate building or separated from facilities for other uses by walls or floors, and the raw material handling, manufacturing and packaging rooms must be separated or partitioned. Floors need waterproofing and drainage, inner walls need a light-colored waterproof finish up to 1.5 meters from the floor, and ventilation and thermometers for freezing and refrigeration facilities are required. For mandatory HACCP products, include the clean-zone separation in the first drawings.

4. 04

   Training and registration application: The operator completes 8 hours of food sanitation training before registration, and operators and employees directly engaged in manufacturing receive health examinations. After the business registration application is filed with the registration authority together with the training certificate and the types of food to be manufactured, the facilities are inspected on site before the certificate is issued, so the schedule should include time to correct any on-site findings.

5. 05

   Product manufacturing report: For each product, file a product manufacturing report with the manufacturing method statement and the statement of reasons for the use-by date with the registration authority before production starts or within 7 days after it starts. For products made under contract at another factory the commissioning party reports, and a change report is also filed within 7 days when changing the product name or mixing ratio or extending the use-by date.

Filing route

Filing route

Deadlines & processing notes

Deadlines & processing notes

Basic documents

Basic documents

If the building use does not match or the workplace zoning falls short of the facility standards, construction has to be redone, so check the facility standards against the drawings before signing the lease and starting interior work.