The Ministry of Commerce and Industries publishes draft technical regulation DGNTI-00-2025. Food technology. Fresh vegetables. Purple and green cabbage. Requirements. The purpose of this Technical Regulation is to establish the general, quality and safety requirements to be met by purple and green cabbage (Brassica oleracea. var. capitata) for fresh consumption, for marketing and/or as raw material for industrial processing.
Month: July 2025
Panama – Ministry of Commerce and Industries publishes draft technical regulation. Food technology. Tomato. Requirements
The Ministry of Commerce and Industries publishes draft technical regulation DGNTI-00-2025. Food technology. Tomato. Requirements. The purpose of this Technical Regulation is to establish the terminology and quality requirements that tomatoes must meet for marketing and consumption in fresh state.
Panama – Ministry of Commerce and Industries publishes draft Technical Regulation – Food Technology for fresh vegetables. Carrots. Requirement
The Ministry of Commerce and Industries has published the draft Technical Regulation – Food Technology.fresh vegetables. Carrots. Requirement (DGNTI-00-2025). The purpose of this Technical Regulation is to establish the general, quality and safety requirements to be met by carrots (Daucus carota) for fresh consumption, for marketing and/or as raw material for direct industrial processing or further processing in the territory of the States Parties.
Brazil – ANVISA opens public consultation on food additives and adjuvants
The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published a public consultation (Consultation 1.338/2025) to seek opinions on a proposed regulation amending the rules governing the use of additives and technological adjuvants in foods.The proposal revises the maximum limits, functions and conditions of use of these ingredients in foods, updating Normative Instruction (IN) 211/2023.
Brazil – ANVISA amends Regulatory Instruction on food additives and technological adjuvants authorized in food
Through Regulatory Instruction – IN No. 380/2025, the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) amends Regulatory Instruction – IN No. 211, of March 1, 2023, which establishes the technological functions, maximum limits and conditions of use of food additives and technological adjuvants authorized for use in food.
The categories of food use are:
- Caramel sauce
- Fresh, chilled or frozen fish, except mollusks, crustaceans and echinoderms
- Fresh, chilled or frozen mollusks, crustaceans and echinoderms
- Meat and meat products
- Fruit jelly and calf’s foot jelly
- Fruit and seed preparations (including toppings and fillings) for use in other foodstuffs (except fruit pulp)
- Liquid dietary supplements (including suspensions, solutions, syrups, emulsions and liquid contents of gelatin capsules).
- Solid and semi-solid dietary supplements (including tablets, gummies, dragees, pills, capsules, gelatin capsules, gels, creams, powders, granules, lozenges and chewable forms).
- Non-alcoholic soy-based beverages.
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