The National Agency for Regulation, Control, and Sanitary Surveillance (ARCSA in Spanish) has made public the draft of the Partial Reform to Resolution ARCSA-DE-2021-015-AKRG, through which the “Technical Sanitary Norm for the analysis of quality control post-registration or post-notification of products for human use and consumption subject to sanitary control and surveillance” was published in the Official Register No. 574 on November 10, 2021.
Products for human use and consumption subject to sanitary control and surveillance are those products that the Agency regulates, controls, and monitors, including: processed foods, food additives, processed water, general medications, biological products, processed natural products for medicinal use, homeopathic products, medical devices for human use, cosmetics, domestic hygiene products, personal hygiene absorbent products, industrial hygiene products, hospital-use disinfectant hygiene products, food-grade disinfectants, and pesticides for domestic, industrial, and public health use.
Article 5.- Replace Articles 7 and 8 of CHAPTER IV “ON POST-REGISTRATION OR POST-NOTIFICATION QUALITY CONTROL ANALYSES” with the following:
“Article 7.- The post-registration or post-notification quality control analyses aim to verify that products for human use and consumption maintain the conditions that allowed for the obtaining of the sanitary registration, mandatory sanitary notification, sanitary notification, or the unique BPM code, as applicable, and that the water for human consumption meets the applicable quality standards and criteria.
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