Month: February 2024

Guatemala – National Food and Nutrition Security Policy updated 16 years after its first version

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The Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security (SESAN in Spanish) of the Presidency of the Republic, headed by Lizett Guzmán, led the updating of the National Food and Nutritional Security Policy (POLSAN) 2022-2037, which is a milestone as it is something that had never been done since its first version.

The POLSAN 2022-2037 establishes the guiding principles, thematic axes and guidelines to orient the country’s Food and Nutritional Security activities. Among its main updates is the rethinking of the target population, the redefinition of objectives, the focus on malnutrition – and not only malnutrition -, the emphasis on food systems and, in a cross-cutting manner, climate change.

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

Article – Ten Criteria for an Educational Approach to the Law for the Promotion of Healthy Eating in Argentina

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This paper proposes ten educational criteria to work on the Act for the Promotion of Healthy Eating in Chemistry classes (and other subjects) from a Human Rights perspective in order to promote critical attitudes towards food. The criteria were developed from an investigative and exploratory work on the implementation of the Act in supermarket shelves, the representations of people and the review of the manuals that establish its implementation. Throughout the article, different situations will be presented where the contributions of food science and technology in the implementation of the Act can be understood.

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

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Ecuador – Regulation on Food Waste Law has been published

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The President of the Republic, Daniel Noboa, signed this January 19, 2024, the Executive Decree No. 120 with the regulations to implement the Law to prevent and reduce the loss and waste of food.
The law came into force in May 2022 but its regulations had not been issued. The regulation establishes the conditions in which processed food for donation must be found and their respective safety measures.
The regulation establishes the conditions in which processed food for donation must be found and their respective safety measures; parameters of delivery, reception, distribution logistics, transportation and use of donated food; of the recipient organizations of these products.

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

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Peru – Executive Branch proposes to repeal the Law for the Promotion of Nutritional Supplements for Alternative Development

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The Executive Branch proposed to repeal the Law for the Promotion of Nutritional Supplements for Alternative Development (Law 27821). With this objective, the central government submitted a bill to the Congress of the Republic that has been referred to the Agrarian and Health parliamentary commissions.
In the explanatory memorandum of the bill, it is stated that this law “has become irrelevant and ineffective”, and therefore it is proposed to repeal it. This will avoid “generating over-regulation of aspects that are already regulated”.

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

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Bolivia – IBONORCA published draft technical standards on cereals and oils and fats

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The Bolivian Institute for Standardization and Quality (IBONORCA in Spanish) has published for consultation several draft Bolivian technical standards (NB) on cereals and oils and fats.

Draft standards on fats and oils

  • Oils and fats – Determination of dropping point (Cancels and replaces NB 34039:2004).
  • Oils and fats – Determination of Willey melting point (Cancels and replaces NB 34027).
  • Oils and fats – Determination of color (Cancels and replaces NB 34024:2004).
  • Oils and fats – Determination of cold test.
  • Oils and fats – Determination of phosphorus (Cancels and replaces NB 34022:2007).
  • Oils and fats – Determination of soap content (Cancels and replaces NB 34020:2004).
  • Oils and fats – Definitions and classification (Cancels and replaces NB 34011:2006).
  • Oils and fats – Determination of unsaponifiable matter (Cancels and replaces NB 34007:2006).
  • Oils and fats – Determination of iodine value – Wijs method (Cancels and replaces NB 34006).
  • Oils and fats – Determination of the saponification number (Cancels and replaces NB 34005:2006).
  • Oils and fats – Determination of acidity (Cancels and replaces NB 34004:2007).

Draft standards on cereals

  • Flours of vegetable origin – Test method for the determination of dry and wet gluten content.

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