The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries together with the Secretariat of Health Quality have published Joint Resolution 26/2023.
ARTICLE 1º.- Article 760 tris of Chapter IX “Farinaceous Foods” of the Argentine Food Code is hereby replaced and shall be worded as follows: “Article 760 tris: With the denomination of products for snacks or for appetizers it is understood those elaborated from potatoes, cereals, flours or starches (derived from cereals, roots and tubers, legumes and pulses), with or without the addition of salt, spices, dried fruits, flavored or not, with or without the addition of other allowed ingredients, baked or fried.
ARTICLE 2.- Article 760 quater of Chapter IX “Farinaceous Foods” of the Argentine Food Code is hereby replaced and shall be worded as follows: “Article 760 quater: With the denomination of snacks cookies it is understood to the products elaborated with wheat flour or others or their mixtures with or without bran, with or without the addition of salt, with or without the addition of spices and other substances allowed for this class of products, flavored or not, with or without authorized chemical and/or biological agents, to which they are given varied forms. The cookies listed in Article 760 are excluded.