Day: 19/06/2025

Argentina – The National Institute of Viticulture updates the requirements for imported wine products

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The National Institute of Viticulture has published Resolution No 20/2025, which establishes that imported wine products must comply with the analytical composition requirements and limits required for similar products of domestic production, as established in Law No 14,878 and complementary regulations. Resolutions Nos. C.121/93, C.36/2012, C.30/16, and Provision No. 1,193/93 are hereby repealed.

ARTICLE 1.- Imported wine products must comply with the analytical composition requirements and limits required for similar products of domestic production, as established in Law No. 14,878 and complementary regulations.

ARTICLE 2.- In the case of imports of products originating in countries with which agreements have been signed regarding oenological or similar practices, the requirements of Law No. 14,878 shall be deemed to have been met.

ARTICLE 3.- Imports of fractionated wine products will prove their authenticity and suitability for consumption when they present an analytical certification issued by the competent authority of the country of origin or an officially authorized entity, which includes the following determinations:

Alcohol, % v/v at 20°C

Reducing sugars and/or glucose + fructose g/l

Total acidity expressed as tartaric acid, g/l

Volatile acidity expressed as acetic acid, g/l

Methanol, mg/l or ml/l

Total sulfur dioxide, mg/l

ARTICLE 4.- The analytical certification cited above must be accompanied by an Import Affidavit, processed electronically, providing details of the transaction and the products to be imported.

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Argentina – Yatay palm fruit is included in the Argentine Food Code

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By means of Joint Resolution 30/2025, the Secretariat of Health Management and the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries amended the Argentine Food Code to include in Article 888 of Chapter XI – “VEGETABLE FOODS”, fruit of the yatay palm (Butia yatay).

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SIECA – Erythrosine (red No. 3) additive banned in SIECA member countries

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By Resolution No 496-2025 (COMIECO-CX), the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA in Spanish) excludes from Annexes A (NORMATIVE) and B (NORMATIVE), Central American Technical Regulations – RTCA 67.04.54:18 Processed Foods and Beverages. Food Additives, the food additive “INS 127 erythrosine (red No. 3)”. Consequently, all references, names, INS numbers, maximum permitted levels, reference legislation, functional class and remarks, to the food additive erythrosine (INS 127) for all food categories listed therein are deleted from these Annexes.
The holders of a registration that must make the corresponding changes in the formulation, labeling and deplete the inventory of labels as a consequence of the exclusion of the food additive referred to in numeral 1 of this Resolution, will have a period of twelve months from the entry into force of this Resolution.
Effective date: July 15, 2025.

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Argentina – New food and dietary supplement advertising regulations in force

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The National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT in Spanish) announces new advertising standards for food and dietary supplements through Provision 4059/25 which establishes rules on advertising aimed at the general public, disseminated in traditional, non-traditional and/or digital media, of national or imported products.

ARTICLE 1: Advertising aimed at the general public, disseminated in traditional, non-traditional and/or digital media, of the products set forth in Article 2°, whether domestic or imported, shall be governed by this provision.

Advertising shall be understood as any form of communication or advertisement whose purpose is to make known a product, its characteristics, properties and/or uses in order to generate interest in the audiences and attract potential users.

Product advertising shall comply with the following general principles:

1. Only products that have obtained the corresponding authorization may be advertised.

2. Advertising shall promote the adequate, safe and rational use of the product, objectively presenting its properties, characteristics and uses without deception or misleading, providing truthful, accurate and clear information, according to the information approved by the sanitary authority.

3. Advertising should be carried out in accessible and understandable language.

4. It shall be the responsibility of the owners of the products to guarantee, according to the consideration of the specific characteristics of the media used for advertising, the proper use of the name, attributes and/or messages disseminated in relation to the product.

ARTICLE 4°.- All advertisements destined to the public shall:

1. include the trade name/active pharmaceutical ingredient, trade name/sales name of the product, as appropriate for each category, as indicated in the registration, authorization or registration of the product. The product label must also be shown as approved.

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Brazil – Modification of regulations on cellulosic materials, packaging and equipment intended to come into contact with foodstuffs

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Resolution No 979/ 2025, which amends Resolution of the Collegiate Council – RDC No 88 of June 29, 2016, approving the technical regulation on cellulosic materials, packaging and equipment intended to come into contact with food and containing other provisions.

This Resolution incorporates Resolution GMC/MERCOSUR No. 2 of 24 April 2025 into the national legal system.

Art. 2.º Point 1.2 of Part II of the Annex of the Resolution of the Collegiate Board – DRC No. 88, of June 29, 2016, shall enter into force with the following modification:
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f) The diisopropylnaphthalene content in the finished product that uses recycled fibers in its production shall be the lowest possible from the technical point of view.

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