Argentina – Nutritional Labeling Front

22/12/202323/01/2024 / infoAlimentario

The Law for the Promotion of Healthy Eating established that all food and beverages packaged in the absence of the customer must have on their front face the warning seals according to their nutrient profile and informing the excess of sugars, fat, sodium and/or calories, or when they contain caffeine and/or sweeteners.

Since the enactment of the Law on October 26, 2021, the Congress established a schedule of adequacy sequenced in 2 stages of implementation. To date, the deadlines of the schedule ended on November 20, 2023.

In this sense and in the framework of compliance with the law, its regulatory decree and ANMAT Provision No. 2673/2022, the National Administration informs that all obliged subjects of food products covered by the front labeling must have the affidavit of mandatory nature established by the regulation and at the same time, products manufactured after November 20, must present the warning seals on the main face of the package at the time of being marketed.

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Brazil – New decrees provide guidelines for healthy nutrition in schools and cities

22/12/2023 / infoAlimentario

The renewal of the National Conference on Food and Nutritional Security has a special meaning for more than one thousand participants: the strength of civil society. Representatives from all over the country will hold, in Brasilia, until next July (14.12), the 6th edition of the meeting. This March (12), during the official inauguration, three new decrees signed by President Lula were presented that conform the strategy to promote food and nutritional security in Brazil.

The texts were published in an extra edition of the Official Gazette of the Union and addressed adequate and healthy nutrition at school and in cities. One of them also establishes the National Food Supply Policy (PNAAB) and foresees the elaboration of the National Food Supply Plan. For the holder of the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against the Hambre, Wellington Dias, the decrees guarantee “healthy food conditions in all regions of Brazil and, also, the supply and regulation, which allows this solidity”.

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Argentina – ANMAT publishes “GUIDE OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A SAFE GLUTEN-FREE MENU”

22/12/2023 / infoAlimentario

The National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT en Español) has published Disposition 10867/2023 which includes the text of ANNEX I (IF-2019-06341144-APN-DERA#ANMAT) of ANMAT Disposition No. 4729/2019 by “GUIDE OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A SAFE GLUTEN-FREE MENU”.

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Brazil – Anvisa approves Regulatory Agenda 2024-2025

22/12/2023 / infoAlimentario

The Collegiate Board of Directors (DICOL in Portuguese) of the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) approved through the Deliberative Circuit (CD 1.312, of December 15, 2023), the Regulatory Agenda (RA) for the 2024-2025 cycle.

The document, published in Ordinance 1.409/2023, is composed of 172 regulatory topics distributed in 16 macro-themes. According to the Normative Agenda Manual, the themes are aligned with the strategic objectives of the 2024-2027 Strategic Plan and are feasible to advance during the Agenda’s term.

The construction of the RA 2024-2025 was initiated through a consultation directed to society and entities of the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS) on the regulatory topics that should be addressed by Anvisa in the next biennium. On July 21, 2023, Public Notice 9 was published to receive comments from any interested party regarding the preliminary list of 102 regulatory proposals for the Agency’s AR 2024-2025, as well as suggestions for the inclusion of other regulatory topics.

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