Brazil – ANVISA issues guidance on health claims for nutrients with fully recognized functions in packaged food labeling

The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) published a Technical Note (in Portuguese) describing the guidelines on the use of functional property claims for nutrients with fully recognized functions in foods, in light of the gaps identified in the current regulations, the recurrent questions received by the General Food Management (GGALI) and the need to provide guidelines to carry out food sanitary control actions, especially in light of the recent changes in the regulatory framework for the regularization of food under the jurisdiction of the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS in Portuguese).