Day: 28/03/2022

The Americas – USA: FTC Proposed Order Stops Marketers from Continuing to Promote Supplements Using Baseless Health Claims

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Two Texas-based companies and their owner are banned from advertising or selling dietary supplements, and from making claims that their products treat, cure, or reduce the risk of disease, under a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

“This order banning the respondents from the supplement industry should put an end to their long history of making baseless claims that their products can treat various diseases,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “People with serious health concerns should rely on their health professionals, not advertisements.”

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The Americas – Chile: Ministry of Health publishes draft amendment on sodium ulphate levels in salt

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The Ministry of Health published a draft amendment to the Food Sanitary Regulations (RSA in Spanish) on the levels of sodium sulfate above 1.5% established in Article 439 of the RSA. For this reason, the standards that Codex Alimentarius has developed in relation to sodium chloride and its natural contaminants were reviewed, where up to 3% of natural contaminants, including sodium sulfate, are accepted.

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The Americas – Brazil: Resolution DRC No. 623 on tolerance limits for foreign matter in food and the general principles for their establishment

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This Resolution establishes the tolerance limits for foreign matter in foods, the general principles for their establishment and the methods of analysis for conformity assessment purposes.

It applies to the entire food production chain.

It does not apply to aspects of mischief, impurities and defects that are already established in specific standards.

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The Americas – Brazil: Resolution DRC No. 617 on Mandatory laboratory analysis and reporting of phenylalanine, protein and moisture levels in processed foods

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Spanish) published DRC No. 617, which establishes the obligation to perform laboratory analysis and transmit information on phenylalanine, protein and moisture levels in processed foods.

This Resolution applies to processed foods with a protein content between 0.10% and 5.00%.

This Resolution does not apply to the following products:

I – foods and beverages with added aspartame;

II – foods intended exclusively for food service; and

III – foods intended exclusively for industrial processing.

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The Americas – Brazil: Regulation establishing identity and quality requirements for milk fat for industrial use approved

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The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply published the SDA Ordinance No. 537 approving the Technical Regulation that establishes the requirements of identity and quality of dairy fat for industrial use.

For the purposes of these regulations, milk fat for industrial use is considered to be the product recovered by means of technologically appropriate processes:

I – water from cheese straining;

II – From the skimming of sour milk;

III – Whey, obtained from the manufacture of cheese; or

IV – Whey.

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