The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil issues Ordinance No. 935/2026 to establish mandatory identity and quality standards applicable to the production, import, and marketing of refined oils from cotton, canola, sunflower, corn, and soybeans.
Agri-food corporations and transnational refineries must urgently audit their quality analytical protocols and labeling architectures to ensure the legal viability of their files under this new federal oversight regime.
This technical regulation takes full operational effect thirty days after its official publication, granting a statutory period of eighteen months to implement the comprehensive adaptation of commercial packaging.
Thru General Agreement 7/2026-AAG, published this Thursday in the Official Journal of the Federation (DOF), the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) announced the postponement of the resolution of approximately 25 amparo trials promoted by bottling companies of the Coca-Cola system. These appeals seek to challenge the constitutionality of the federal regulations issued in 2023 and 2024, which prohibit the sale, distribution, and advertising of low-nutritional-value foods (junk food) in public and private schools of the National Educational System.
This measure originates from the decree of September 30, 2024, which reformed the General Education Law in terms of food health (the foundations of which were originally published on December 20, 2023). From this reform emerged the “General Guidelines to which the preparation, distribution, and sale of prepared, processed, and bulk foods and beverages, as well as the promotion of healthy eating lifestyles, within all schools of the National Educational System, must adhere,” still in effect to date. The SCJN detailed that the prohibition of these products in schools will remain in effect while the High Court resolves the amparos under review 20/2026 and 91/2026.
The Dominica Bureau of Standards (Bureau) has published D-DNS CRS 18: 2011 – Specification for Honey. This standard prescribes the requirements for honey produced by the honeybees Apis mellifera and Meliponini sp. It specifies three grades of honey with requirements for production, handling, packaging, labelling, analytic sampling and testing of honey that is intended or offered for sale in Dominica. This standard takes into account the management of equipment and storage conditions of honey, and requirements for hygienic production that assures the safety of food for human consumption.
The period for Public Comments will run from July 01 to August 31, 2026.
The National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil (ANVISA in Portuguese), thru its General Food Directorate (GGALI in Portuguese), invites all interested parties to participate in the virtual sectoral dialog on the regulation of Law No. 15,404/2026, which will be held on August 11, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, via the Microsoft Teams platform.
The meeting aims to present the current status of the work carried out by GGALI, delve into the identified technical issues, and discuss the strategy and next steps for the regulation of the Law. The initiative also seeks to gather the participants’ opinions on regulatory alternatives, the available evidence, and the potential impacts of the measures under evaluation.
During the dialog, topics such as:
Limits for cocoa shells, peels, and other by-products;
Criteria for the calculation, declaration, and verification of total cocoa solids;
Use of other vegetable fats added to chocolate, including their scope, calculation basis, and criteria to verify the 5% limit;
Relationship between the categories of chocolate defined by the Law and their classification criteria;
Total solids of milk or dairy products;
Sale denomination, labeling, and prevention of information that may mislead the consumer; and
Compatibility of the new Law with the current health regulations, in particular the Collegiate Board Resolution (RDC) 723/2022.
To facilitate the debate, GGALI provides the Basic Document on the regulation of Law No. 15.404/2026: New requirements for cocoa-derived products, which presents the regulatory context, the preliminary analyzes conducted, the demands received, and the main points that require evaluation. It is recommended to read the material beforehand for a better understanding of the meeting.
Participation is open to all interested parties, with no prior registration required.
The Brazilian Institute of Consumer Protection (IDEC) in collaboration with the editorial office of the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo (USP) has published an e-book “You Have the Right to Know What You Eat: A Record of the History of Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling from the Perspective of Civil Society,” which gathers unpublished documents, regulatory decisions, scientific studies, and historical records to recount how civil society, academia, and public institutions faced a decade of debates and resistance to approve the new regulation.
The publication notes that, in recent years, scientific studies have increasingly demonstrated the relationship between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and a higher risk of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and premature mortality.
In this context, front-of-package nutrition labeling has become one of the main public health strategies adopted in several countries to alert the population about products with excessive essential nutrients.
In Brazil, the measure now requires the inclusion of a magnifying glass on the front of the packaging for products that contain high amounts of added sugars, saturated fats, or sodium, allowing consumers to identify this information in seconds without having to decipher complex nutritional tables.
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