The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Resolution RDC No. 854/2024 on Provides requirements for sanitary conditions applicable to packaging, coatings, utensils, lids and metal equipment intended to come into contact with food.
This Technical Regulation applies to packaging, coatings, utensils, utensils, lids and equipment made of metal materials, coated or uncoated, that come into contact with food and its raw materials during production, preparation, transport, distribution and storage. Printing inks, varnishes on tableware and enamels used on the external surface shall not be subject to the provisions of these regulations, provided that they do not come into direct contact with food, nor with the user’s mouth in the form of habitual use.