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Brazil – ANVISA announces that the recordings and documents from the sectoral dialogue regarding the Food Regulatory Agenda are now available

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) announces the availability of the recording, presentation, and minutes from the virtual sector dialogue regarding the preparation of topics in the Food sector for the Regulatory Agenda (AR) 2026/2027, which took place on August 27.

This serves as a planning tool that offers predictability and transparency to ANVISA’s regulatory activities.

During the dialogue, the Agency presented a preliminary list of topics in the Food sector, consisting of 30 items.

The deadline for submitting contributions remains open until September 15, via the electronic form available on the ANVISA portal.

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Brazil – New regulation establishing a positive list of authorized substances for the manufacture of regenerated cellulose films intended for contact with food

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Normative Instruction No. 396/2025, which establishes the positive lists of substances authorized for the manufacture of regenerated cellulose films intended for contact with food and their conditions of use.

For the substances listed in the Annexs of this Regulatory Instruction, in case of disagreement between the CAS number and the chemical name, the chemical name of the substance shall prevail.

This Regulatory Instruction comes into effect 6 (six) months after its publication date.

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Brazil – Anvisa, the Ministry of Health, and PAHO hold an event on monitoring food regulation in Brazil

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA en Portuguese), the Ministry of Health, and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will organize the event “Evidence for Monitoring Food Regulation in Brazil: Contributions to the Implementation of the National Food and Nutrition Policy. The meeting will be held in the Anvisa auditorium in Brasília on October 9, from 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The objective of the event is to discuss the advances and evidence related to monitoring food regulation in Brazil as a strategy to support the implementation of the National Food and Nutrition Policy (PNAN), with an emphasis on:

  • Presentation of the project “Monitoring Food Labeling in Brazil: Database Organization, Strategic Information Analysis, and Development of a National Monitoring System.”
  • Presentation of the characterization of food and beverage labels according to the NOVA classification (which divides foods into four categories based on the level of industrial processing they have undergone: natural or minimally processed foods, processed culinary ingredients, processed foods, and ultra-processed foods).
  • Presentation of study results on restricting the use of industrially produced trans fats in foods to support Anvisa’s Regulatory Outcome Assessment (ARR) on the topic.

Dominican Republic – INDOCAL reviews a set of technical standards regarding food

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The Dominican Institute for Quality (INDOCAL in Spanish) has released a series of projects aimed at revising technical standards concerning food:

  • NORDOM 67-1:095 Yellow cheese – Definitions and specifications.
  • NORDOM 492 (2nd Rev.) Crude palm oil – Specifications.
  • NORDOM 614 (1st Rev.) Fish and seafood – Determination of drained net content and pieces in preserves – Testing methods.
  • NORDOM 638 (1st Rev.) Code of practices for the prevention and reduction of tin contamination in canned foods.

NORDOM 67-1:095 Yellow cheese – Definitions and specifications.

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NORDOM 492 (2nd Rev.) Crude palm oil – Specifications.

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NORDOM 614 (1st Rev.) Fish and seafood – Determination of drained net content and pieces in preserves – Testing methods.

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NORDOM 638 (1st Rev.) Code of practices for the prevention and reduction of tin contamination in canned foods.

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Honduras – ARSA updates the list of ingredients along with their minimum and maximum daily concentrations, as well as the evaluation and classification criteria for nutritional supplements

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The Health Regulatory Agency (ARSA in Spanish) has released Communication C-009-ARSA-VA, which updates the list of ingredients along with their minimum and maximum daily concentrations, as well as the evaluation and classification criteria for nutritional supplements (LIS-DAB-001-V2).

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