Month: August 2022

Argentina: Authorities set date for the implementation of front-of-package warning label

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As from August 20, supermarkets and large chains will have to display on their shelves products with their respective black front labels to warn consumers if the product in question has excess sugars, total fat, saturated fat, calories and sodium within the framework of Law 27,642 on Front Labeling, published in the Official Gazette in November 2021.

The Ministry of Health reported that 35% of the 2,658 extension requests for the implementation of the labels were approved. The main items that were submitted are candies, jams, jellies, jams and jams (21.62%); bakery products and cookies (15%); sausages and canned meats (14.45%); dairy products (11.27%); alcoholic beverages (10.63%); processed fruits and vegetables (7.39%). Also cereals and pastas (6.55%); sauces and dressings (5.19%); desserts and powders for preparations (2.96%); snacks (2.16%); ice cream (1.09%); soups and broths (1.02%); coffee and tea (0.67%).

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Spain: Draft Decree to regulate the labeling in the BRAILLE alphabet of consumer goods and products of special relevance

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The Ministry of Consumer Affairs is currently working on the drafting of a regulation that will guide the labeling of essential products in Braille for the visually impaired.
The Consumer Affairs Department believes that this Braille labeling should provide “the minimum basic information (name, nature, expiration date or best before date, allergens)”, as well as dynamic and extensive information (name and address of the producing company, composition and purpose of the product, quality, net quantity or category, production date, nutritional information system, instructions for its correct use or consumption).
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs explains that it focuses on packaged general consumption products, in the case of foodstuffs: meat, fish, eggs, milk, coffee and canned food.

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Cuba: Food Sovereignty Law in force

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The Food Sovereignty and Food and Nutritional Security Law (Ley SSAN in Spanish), approved in an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba last May, was published today in the Ordinary Gazette as Law 148/2022.

Decree 67/2022 was also issued, which presents the Regulations with the methodological guide and its implementation schedule, Yanisbel Sánchez Rodríguez, vice-president of the Agrifood Commission of the highest body of the Cuban State, said at a press conference.

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El Salvador: Extended comment period on RTS 67.05.02:22

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The Government of El Salvador informs that it notified on 30 May 2022, under the symbol G/SPS/N/SLV/17/Add.1, the draft Salvadoran Technical Regulation “RTS 67.05.02:22 MEAT. PROCESSED MEAT PRODUCTS”, with the objective of establishing the specifications and safety and quality characteristics that raw, cured and cooked meat products (including sausages), including poultry and game, intended for human consumption, must comply with.

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For further information, you can access the original source in Spanish
For further information, you can access the original source in Spanish