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.
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.
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.
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.
The provisions of the present technical sanitary regulations shall be of mandatory application at the national level for all natural or legal persons who are owners or legal representatives of establishments subject to sanitary surveillance and control, public or private, where the following activities are carried out activities of production, storage, conditioning, distribution, commercialization, dispensation, sale, importation or exportation of products for human use and consumption; with the exception of public and private health service establishments.
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