The National Service of Agricultural Health and Food Safety (SENASAG in Spanish) published by means of the ADMINISTRATIVE RESOLUTION Nº042/2023, the update of the Labeling Regulation of Food Products for Human Consumption. The update incorporates the implementation of the procedure for the use and issuance of certificates of approval of labels online and digital signatures.
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Mexico – In the Senate, a bill is proposed to amend the General Health Law to include GMO labeling on food and beverages
In the Plenary Session of the Senate of the Republic, legislator Ana Lilia Rivera presented the initiative to reform articles 212 and 215 of the General Health Law, in order to incorporate in the content of the front warning labeling of food and non-alcoholic beverages, the indication of those products that contain components or ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms.
The Senator argued that the traditional forms of production, marketing and consumption of native corn, which are part of Mexico’s food and cultural heritage, have been gradually displaced to make way for large-scale industrial agricultural production systems, based on the use of genetically modified seeds to make plants resistant to pests and tolerate herbicides, such as glyphosate, producing foods that, even when processed, contain this type of highly dangerous agrochemicals.
Canada – List of Permitted Emulsifying, Gelling, Stabilizing or Thickening Agents (Lists of Permitted Food Additives)
Date modified: 2023-03-29
This List of Permitted Emulsifying, Gelling, Stabilizing or Thickening Agents sets out authorized food additives used to form or maintain a uniform emulsion of two or more phases in a food, impart a particular food texture through the formation of a gel, maintain a uniform dispersion of two or more ingredients in a food, or modify the viscosity of a food. It is incorporated by reference in the Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Emulsifying, Gelling, Stabilizing or Thickening Agents.
Colombia – Congressmen introduce bill to promote food donations
Congresswoman Saray Robayo Bechara, presented the bill that promotes food donation and food security, to address malnutrition and face the food crisis that millions of Colombians live today, who do not have enough to eat three meals a day.
According to the congresswoman, the project is motivated so that between 40 and 60% of the food that is wasted today, that is, about 6 million tons per year, can reach the tables of 5 million of the most vulnerable Colombians according to the DNP.
Saint Kitts & Nevis – Labelling of packaged water
The St. Kitts & Nevis Bureau of Standards published Standard on labelling of packaged water. This Standard specifies requirements for the purity, treatment, bacteriological acceptability, packaging and labelling of all waters that are pre-packaged for sale and used as beverages or in foods.
This Standard does not apply to water distributed by the public water supply system, to carbonated beverages, soda water or to packaged water sold for purposes other than as a beverage.
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