Health Functional Food General Sales Business Report

Procedure

Procedure

1. 01

   1. Confirm the sales method and the report category: Selling health functional food made by others in a store, door to door or online is general sales business. Selling products made by a contract manufacturer under your own brand is a separate distribution-only sales report. Sales at a pharmacy registered under the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act or at a custom-made health functional food outlet do not require a general sales report. If you plan to sell medical devices too, check at this stage whether the items are exempt from the sales business report.

2. 02

   2. Complete 2 hours of safety and hygiene training: Anyone starting a general sales business must take 2 hours of safety and hygiene training before filing (Enforcement Rule Article 19(3)). If you start the same type of business within 2 years of the training date, you need not repeat it. After opening, you take 2 hours of training every year for each place of business.

3. 03

   3. Check the facility standard: In principle the business needs its own independent place of business, but if business operations are not affected it may share another place or keep only an office (Enforcement Rule Table 1). Door-to-door, telephone solicitation, multi-level and e-commerce or mail-order sales, where buyers do not visit the office, may use a residential building as the office. If you open a store, check before signing the lease that the use recorded in the building register allows retail.

4. 04

   4. Submit the business report form: Attach proof of training completion to the business report form (Form No. 6) and submit it to the business report department of the city, county or district office where the premises are located, or apply through Government24. The office checks disqualification grounds through administrative data and must notify you within 3 days whether it accepts the report. If no notice is given within that period, the report is deemed accepted on the day after the period ends. Once accepted, a business report certificate (Form No. 8) is issued.

5. 05

   5. File the medical device sales report and the mail-order report together: If you also sell or rent out medical devices such as massage chairs, blood pressure monitors or thermometers, submit a medical device sales (rental) business report (Form No. 36) for each place of business to the same district office, separately. Processing takes 3 days and no documents are specified for the applicant to attach. A person who has filed a sales report need not file a rental report again. If you sell online, also check whether you must file a mail-order business report under Article 12 of the E-Commerce Act.

Filing route

Filing route

Deadlines & processing notes

Deadlines & processing notes

Fees & official charges

Fees & official charges

Included in the basic fee — Initial document review, required-document guidance, basic form preparation, one filing support and responses to up to two supplement requests.

Conditional success fee — For this service, any conditional success fee may be separately agreed within the lawful service scope and stated in a written engagement agreement. No outcome is guaranteed.

Displayed amounts are starting estimates, not statutory or standard rates. The final fee is confirmed after consultation and document review in the engagement agreement. Government fees and actual expenses may change.

Basic documents

Basic documents

If the business name, representative or location changes, file a change report (Form No. 13); if you close the business, submit a closure report (Form No. 14) within 1 month of the closing date. The medical device sales business also needs its own change, suspension and closure reports. Because sellers of health functional food must take 2 hours of safety and hygiene training every year for each place of business, track the training schedule after filing.