EU -EFSA: Public Consultations/Draft opinion on review of existing health based guidance values for copper

27/05/2022 / infoAlimentario

EFSA’s Methodology and Scientific Support (MESE) Unit has launched an open consultation on the draft Scientific Opinion on an Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) for exposure to copper, in response to a mandate by the European Commission (M-2020-0087). The approach applied in this assessment is the first case of a compound that falls within the context of the 2021 EFSA Statement on “Establishing health-based guidance values for regulated products that are also nutrients”. The aim of this public consultation is to collect constructive input on the establishment of an ADI for copper, within the context of the 2021 EFSA Statement and other relevant EFSA Guidance.

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Brazil: Tolerance limits for inevitable foreign matter, except mites in food

27/05/2022 / infoAlimentario

In ANNEX I (TOLERANCE LIMITS FOR UNEVITABLE FOREIGN MATTER, EXCEPT FOR CARBON, BY FOOD GROUPS, AND ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGIES FOR THEIR VERIFICATION) of the Resolution of the Collegiate Council – DRC No. 623, of March 9, 2022, published in the Official Journal of the Federation (DOU ) No. 51, of March 16, 2022, paragraph 1, folios 119 to 12.

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USA: FDA Denies Request to Exempt D-Tagatose from Added Sugar Labeling

27/05/2022 / infoAlimentario

In a letter dated May 18, 2022, FDA denied a citizen petition from Bonumose LLC which requested that the Agency (1) exempt D-tagatose from classification as an “Added Sugar” and (2) allow for the voluntary labeling of D-tagatose as a separate declaration under “Total Carbohydrates,” similar to the approach taken for sugar alcohols.

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Mexico: Will the characters return to food packaging?

27/05/2022 / infoAlimentario

The Eighth District Judge in Administrative Matters in Mexico City, Martin Adolfo Santos Perez, has declared Article 4.1.5 of the Official Mexican Standard NOM-051-SCFI/SSA1-2010 (NOM-051) unconstitutional in two different cases. This is the precept that forced food and beverage companies to remove their characters from packaging more than a year ago.

The measure to prohibit the use of “children’s characters, animations, cartoons, celebrities, athletes or mascots” on the packaging of products with warning labels was controversial from the beginning. There was no evidence to show that it would help to solve the obesity epidemic in the country, and instead several jurists pointed out that it would violate international intellectual property commitments.

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Brazil: Anvisa will hold a webinar on nutritional claims

27/05/2022 / infoAlimentario

Anvisa will hold a webinar next Monday (5/30/05), at 3 p.m., to address nutrition claims, in accordance with Collegiate Council Resolution (RDC) 429/2020 and Normative Instruction (IN) 75/2020. DRC 429/2020 provides for nutrition labeling of packaged foods and IN 75/2020 establishes the technical requirements for the declaration of nutrition labeling of packaged foods.The webinar is a virtual seminar that aims to strengthen Anvisa’s transparency initiatives, bringing updated content and knowledge to the public. The transmission is via webcast and the interaction with users takes place in real time, through a chat during the event. See the Agency’s specific webinars page.