Supplementary Provisions, Article 2-2

①The Prime Minister may, if finding that an additive whose name is entered in the list of existing additives is likely to harm human health, delete the name of that additive from the list of existing additives after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council.

②When the Prime Minister intends to delete, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the name of an additive whose name is entered in the list of existing additives from that list of existing additives, the Prime Minister is to publicize the purpose, content, and other necessary matters and broadly seek the opinions of the public; provided, however, that this does not apply if there is an urgency to prevent the occurrence of food sanitation hazards and there is no time to broadly seek the opinions of the public in advance.

③In the case of the proviso to the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister is to broadly seek the opinions of the public without delay, after the fact.

④The Prime Minister must issue public notice without delay of the list of existing additives from which deletion has been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

⑤The provisions of Article 72, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Food Sanitation Act apply mutatis mutandis to the deletion under the provisions of paragraph (1).

⑥The provisions of Article 80, paragraph (3) of the Food Sanitation Act apply mutatis mutandis to the authority of the Prime Minister under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (4) and the provisions of Article 72, paragraphs (2) and (3) of that Act applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph.