The Americas – Brazil: Congressman introduces gluten amendment bill for food labeling regulation

Bill 907/22 has been introduced in Congress, which aims to modify the regulation on labeling of processed foods to include the following warning: “contains gluten – harmful to the health of consumers with celiac disease” or “does not contain gluten”.

Currently, the law defining the labeling of products containing gluten (Law 10.674/03), which establishes that industrialized foods must contain on their label and insert, mandatorily, only the inscriptions “contains gluten” or “does not contain gluten”.