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Argentina – Project to include hemp seeds and products derived from hemp in the Argentine Food Code

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The National Food Commission (CONAL in Spanish) published a project (files EX-2020-126856186) to include hemp seeds and products derived from hemp in the Argentine Food Code.
Article 1. Replace Article 917, Chapter XI: “Plant foods”, of the Argentine Food Code, which shall be worded as follows:
“Article 917: The edible seeds are the following:
Hemp – Cannabis Sativa L.

Article 2. Article 917 bis is hereby incorporated into Chapter XI: “Plant Food” of the Argentine Food Code, which shall be worded as follows: “Article 917 bis: With the denomination of hemp seeds are understood the healthy, clean and well preserved seeds of the different varieties of the vegetable species Cannabis Sativa L. that do not express more than 1% of delta-9 tetrahydroxyethylene (delta-9 tetrahydroxyethylene).
of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), authorized by the competent authority for food use.

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Argentina – Draft amendment to the Food Code on gluten-free products

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The Spanish National Food Commission (CONAL) published a draft amendment to the Food Code (file EX-2021-114026880) on gluten-free products.
Replace Article 1383 of the Argentinean Food Code (CAA) which shall be worded as follows: “Article 1383: It is understood by. “gluten-free food and beverage” means that which by the characteristics of its ingredients or through a technological process ingredients or through an adequate technological process that effectively demonstrates that it removes gluten that effectively demonstrates that it removes gluten and the application of good manufacturing practices that
practices -that prevent cross-contamination- does not contain prolamins and glutenins from glutenins from wheat, from all Triticum species, such as common spelt (Triticum spelta), and from the (Triticum spelta L.), kamut (Triticum polonicum L.), durum wheat, rye, barley, barley, oats and oatmeal, barley, oats and their crossbred varieties. The gluten content may not exceed exceed a maximum of 10 mg/kg.
In order to verify the gluten-free condition, analytical methodology based on the analytical methodology based on CODEX STAN 118 – 1979 Adopted in 1979. Amendments: 1983 and 2015. Revision: 2008 enzymeimmunoassay ELISA R5 Mendez and any other that the National Health Authority evaluates and accepts.

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Mexico – Advertising Advisory Council presents Decalogue of actions to protect public health

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In order to prevent misleading and inconsistent advertising from continuing to try to clean up the image of brands, products and services with proven health risks and infringement of the right to health, the Advertising Advisory Council headed by the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (COFEPRIS in Spanish), announces the Decalogue of actions that will guide its work as a reference body in the consolidation of an effective legal and regulatory framework to protect the health of the population.

This collegiate body, made up of agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration (APF in Spanish), the academic and scientific community, the business sector, advertising media and the media, has among its objectives to analyze and give its opinion on the use and content of advertising codes of ethics.

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Dominican Republic – DIGEMAPS will be a decentralized, autonomous agency and will promote the homologation of sanitary registrations of imported food and medicines

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One month after the General Directorate of Medicines, Food and Health Products (DIGEMAPS in Spanish) ceased to be a unit attached to the Ministry of Public Health to become a decentralized institution with Decree N°231-23, the entity is working on improving and modernizing some of its processes.

Among them is the homologation of sanitary registrations of foods brought from countries such as the United States and those that are part of the European Union.

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Chile – Congressmen approve bill to amend the Sanitary Code to prohibit the naming of hamburgers or sausages as hamburger or sausage products of vegetable origin

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The Chamber of Deputies approved the Bill “that modifies the Sanitary Code, to define the concept of meat and prohibit giving that denomination to products that are not of animal origin”.

Now the bill will pass to the Senate where it will begin its last instance of discussion to become a law.

This legislation includes a clause that states that “the names associated with products of animal origin, such as ‘hamburger’, ‘chorizo’, ‘sausage’, ‘sausage’, ‘jerky’, among others, cannot be used to describe, promote or market food products that contain a greater proportion of vegetable matter than meat”.

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