Month: September 2023

Ecuador – Draft External Instructions on the evaluation of restaurants, cafeterias and other collective food establishments

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The National Agency for Regulation, Control and Sanitary Surveillance (ARCSA in Spanish) has published the Draft External Instructions on the evaluation of restaurants, cafeterias and other collective food establishments. This process is intended only for Restaurants, Cafeterias and other food service establishments that elaborate that elaborate and commercialize food for immediate consumption, which are exempted from obtaining the sanitary notification, being able to also commercialize processed food for immediate consumption. processed foods that may require sanitary notification, as the case may be.
sanitary notification.

Public Consultation: From 05/09/2023 to 26/09/2023

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

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Paraguay – Extension of the public consultation period for the Regulation of Law No. 7092 on the front warning labeling of packaged foods

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The National Institute of Food and Nutrition (INAN in Spanish) has extended the deadline for public consultation of the Regulation Law No. 7092 Frontal warning labeling of packaged foods, until October 2, 2023.
For sending suggestions, considerations, opinions and relevant corrections please send to the following institutional email addresses.

asuntosregulatorios.inan@gmail.com 
direccion@inan.gov.py

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

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Brazil – ANVISA publishes public consultation to include D-ribose as an ingredient in food supplements

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Public Consultation No. 1.199/2023 on the proposed amendment of Normative Instruction No. 28, dated July 26, 2018, which establishes the lists of constituents, limits of use, claims and labeling of food supplements to include D-ribose.

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

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Argentina – Identification and labeling requirements for food contact food containers and utensils

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The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and the Secretariat of Quality in Health published Joint Resolution 25/2023 that incorporates Article 184 bis to the Argentine Food Code, which will be worded as follows: “Article 184 bis: Food containers and utensils in contact with food shall comply with the Identification and Labeling Requirements, which appear in the Annex that, registered under No. IF-2020-82726828-APN-DLEIAER#ANMAT, is part of this Article.”

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

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Nicaragua – MIFIC publishes public consultation on NTON 03003 – Meat and Meat Products. Bird meat

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The Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce (MIFIC in Spanish) published the draft standard NTON 03003 Meat and Meat Products. Meat of Poultry (Gallus gallus domesticus), slaughtered whole, its cuts and giblets for Human Consumption. Sanitary and Safety Requirements.
The purpose of the standard is “to establish the safety requirements to be met by poultry (Gallus gallus domesticus) prepared whole or cut, and their offal, intended for human consumption, as well as the sanitary requirements to be met by processing establishments”.

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

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