The Executive Branch proposed to repeal the Law for the Promotion of Nutritional Supplements for Alternative Development (Law 27821). With this objective, the central government submitted a bill to the Congress of the Republic that has been referred to the Agrarian and Health parliamentary commissions.
In the explanatory memorandum of the bill, it is stated that this law “has become irrelevant and ineffective”, and therefore it is proposed to repeal it. This will avoid “generating over-regulation of aspects that are already regulated”.
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Bolivia – IBONORCA published draft technical standards on cereals and oils and fats
The Bolivian Institute for Standardization and Quality (IBONORCA in Spanish) has published for consultation several draft Bolivian technical standards (NB) on cereals and oils and fats.
Draft standards on fats and oils
- Oils and fats – Determination of dropping point (Cancels and replaces NB 34039:2004).
- Oils and fats – Determination of Willey melting point (Cancels and replaces NB 34027).
- Oils and fats – Determination of color (Cancels and replaces NB 34024:2004).
- Oils and fats – Determination of cold test.
- Oils and fats – Determination of phosphorus (Cancels and replaces NB 34022:2007).
- Oils and fats – Determination of soap content (Cancels and replaces NB 34020:2004).
- Oils and fats – Definitions and classification (Cancels and replaces NB 34011:2006).
- Oils and fats – Determination of unsaponifiable matter (Cancels and replaces NB 34007:2006).
- Oils and fats – Determination of iodine value – Wijs method (Cancels and replaces NB 34006).
- Oils and fats – Determination of the saponification number (Cancels and replaces NB 34005:2006).
- Oils and fats – Determination of acidity (Cancels and replaces NB 34004:2007).
Draft standards on cereals
- Flours of vegetable origin – Test method for the determination of dry and wet gluten content.
Paraguay – Draft Resolution Requirements and sanitary conditions for the commercialization of poultry meat products
The National Institute of Food and Nutrition (INAN in Spanish) has published the Draft Resolution of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare on the requirements and sanitary conditions for the commercialization of meat products of poultry origin.
Paraguay – INAN confirms food and raw material import requirements are in force
The National Institute of Food and Nutrition (INAN in Spanish) communicates that Resolution S.G. No. 336/2020 is still in force. “Whereby requirements and conditions are established for the registration of food ingredients and raw materials to be imported directly by food industries for their own use”.
The application for registration of food ingredients and raw materials is available in the institutional computer system (SIGRA in Spanish).
Argentina – Updated fees for procedures related to food and supplements
The National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT in Spanish), by means of Disposition 25/2024, updated the amounts of the fees that will accrue for procedures related to food products, dietary supplements, food for specific medical purposes, establishments, packaging, import/export, laboratory analysis, authentications and federal network of laboratories.
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