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. 2021 Aug 31;30(9):1151–1170. doi: 10.1007/s10068-021-00943-7

Table 3.

Comparison of food classifications between Korean and Codex food standards (animal origin)

Korean Classification of foods Codex classification of foods
Type Group Commodity a) Type Group
Livestock products Eggs Egg, Duck egg, Quail egg Poultry products Fats
Edible offal
Meat Beef, Pork, Lamb, Goat meat, Rabbit meat, Horse meat, Venison, Chicken, Pheasant meat, Duck meat, Goose meat, Turkey meat, Quail meat Eggs
Meat
Mammalian products Meat
Milk Cow’s milk, Goat milk Milk
Mammalian fats
Edible offal
Fishery products Freshwater fishes Snakehead, Amur catfish, Chinese muddy lasch, Crusian carp, Crucian carp, Pondsmelt, Golden mandarin fish, Carp, Stone moroko, Arctic lamprey, Common carp Aquatic animal products Freshwater fish
Pelagic fishes Cherry almond, Salmon, Ayu Sweetfish, Common eel Diadromous fish
Marine fishes Ray, Flounder, Pacific cutlass fish, Croaker, Chub mackerel, Pacific saury, Japanese Glyingfish, Bastard halibut, Spootybelly greenling, Seabass, Pacific cod, Japanese sandfish, Seabream, Goby, Anchovy, Alaska Pollack, Mi-iuy croaker, Tongue sole, Japanese amberjack, Japanese sardinella, glass fish, Silver pomfret, Puffer, Silverbelly sea perch, Korean rockfish, Dark-banded rockfish, Whitespotted conger, Japanese Spanish mackerel, Black cow-tongue, Common mullet, Crub fish, Korean sandlance, Okhotsk, atka mackerel, Japanese jack mackerel, Dotted gizzard shad, Sardine, Croaker, Slender shad, Threadsail Filefish, Pacific herring, Skate ray, Alfonsino, Broadnose sevengill shark, pelagic tresher, Salmon shark, Shortfin mako, Piked dogfish, smooth hammerhead, Silver chimaera, Blue shark, Blacktip reef shark, Sawedged perch, Inshore hagfish, silver warehou, Southern hake, black cod, tunas, Southern hake, black cod, tunas, Southern Bluefin tuna, Albacore, Bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna, Longtail tuna, skipjack tuna, black skipjack, bullet tuna, Frigate tuna, Indo pacific sailfish, striped marlin, swordfish Marine fish
Fish eggs Pollack roe, salmon roe, caviar Fish roe
Crustaceans Shrimp, crab, lobster, crayfish, three-spined shore crab, krill Crustaceans
Fish offal
Marine mammals
Echinoderms (sea urchins) Sea urchin, Sea cucumber
Tunicates Sea squirt, Warty sea squirt, Wrinkled sea squirt
Mollusks Shellfishes: Invertebrate animals Molluscs (including Cephalopods) and other invertebrate animals
Cephaolpods:
Other mollusks:
Other animals Reptiles and amphibians Edible snail
Edible soft-shelled turtle, Edible frog Amphibians and reptiles Frogs, lizards, snakes and turtles

(a) Korean food commodities which are not classified in the Codex food classification