Regulatory news in the Americas
The Ecuadorian Standardization Service (INEN in Spanish) has published a draft revision of NTE INEN 2983 (1st Revision) Complementos/ suplementos nutricionales. Requirements. This standard establishes the requirements for nutritional complements/supplements. This standard does not apply to foods for special diets.
Through the Official Journal of the Federation, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued an order to revoke and no longer grant authorizations for the use of genetically modified corn intended for human consumption, as well as the use of glyphosate, a herbicide widely used in the field.
This decree replaces one from December 2020 and its objective, the Ministry of Economy (SE) subsequently detailed in a press release, is to specify the objective and scope of public policies, as well as to “eliminate any possible imprecision of the predecessor text, which lent itself to diverse interpretations”.
The decree, he explained, is strictly limited to corn, so that canola, soybean, cotton and the rest of the raw materials are not subject to this regulation. In addition, to avoid confusion, the decree establishes a categorization of corn according to its use: human food (dough and tortillas), fodder and industrialized corn for human food.
Less than a week is left for the expiration of the extension requested by large companies to comply with the law on front labeling of food and beverages, which seeks to warn the population on food packaging of excessive components that may be harmful to health, such as sugars, sodium and saturated fats, among others. The regulation was approved in October 2021 and most companies requested extensions to comply, which expire on February 16.
Based on the latest nutrition science and extensive feedback from our school meal partners, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service is proposing updates to the school nutrition standards in a few key areas to give kids the right balance of nutrients for healthy and appealing meals. The proposed updates reflect the most recent Dietary Guidelines, as required by law, and build in plenty of time for planning and implementation to ensure the school meals community and the kids they serve have the best chance for long-term success.
This proposed rule – Child Nutrition Programs: Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans – is the next step in an ongoing effort toward healthier school meals that USDA and the broader school meals community have been partnering on for well over a decade.
The Secretary of Access to Health, Sandra Tirado, assured today that “we are fully complying with the timeframe foreseen by the Law” on Front Labeling and Promotion of Healthy Eating, regulated last March, and specified that once the time for large companies to apply it is over, the “second stage” has already begun, which aims at small and medium-sized companies to do so.
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