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Brazil – New regulation establishing a positive list of authorized substances for the manufacture of regenerated cellulose films intended for contact with food

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Normative Instruction No. 396/2025, which establishes the positive lists of substances authorized for the manufacture of regenerated cellulose films intended for contact with food and their conditions of use.

For the substances listed in the Annexs of this Regulatory Instruction, in case of disagreement between the CAS number and the chemical name, the chemical name of the substance shall prevail.

This Regulatory Instruction comes into effect 6 (six) months after its publication date.

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Brazil – Anvisa, the Ministry of Health, and PAHO hold an event on monitoring food regulation in Brazil

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA en Portuguese), the Ministry of Health, and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will organize the event “Evidence for Monitoring Food Regulation in Brazil: Contributions to the Implementation of the National Food and Nutrition Policy. The meeting will be held in the Anvisa auditorium in Brasília on October 9, from 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The objective of the event is to discuss the advances and evidence related to monitoring food regulation in Brazil as a strategy to support the implementation of the National Food and Nutrition Policy (PNAN), with an emphasis on:

  • Presentation of the project “Monitoring Food Labeling in Brazil: Database Organization, Strategic Information Analysis, and Development of a National Monitoring System.”
  • Presentation of the characterization of food and beverage labels according to the NOVA classification (which divides foods into four categories based on the level of industrial processing they have undergone: natural or minimally processed foods, processed culinary ingredients, processed foods, and ultra-processed foods).
  • Presentation of study results on restricting the use of industrially produced trans fats in foods to support Anvisa’s Regulatory Outcome Assessment (ARR) on the topic.

Dominican Republic – INDOCAL reviews a set of technical standards regarding food

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The Dominican Institute for Quality (INDOCAL in Spanish) has released a series of projects aimed at revising technical standards concerning food:

  • NORDOM 67-1:095 Yellow cheese – Definitions and specifications.
  • NORDOM 492 (2nd Rev.) Crude palm oil – Specifications.
  • NORDOM 614 (1st Rev.) Fish and seafood – Determination of drained net content and pieces in preserves – Testing methods.
  • NORDOM 638 (1st Rev.) Code of practices for the prevention and reduction of tin contamination in canned foods.

NORDOM 67-1:095 Yellow cheese – Definitions and specifications.

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NORDOM 492 (2nd Rev.) Crude palm oil – Specifications.

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NORDOM 614 (1st Rev.) Fish and seafood – Determination of drained net content and pieces in preserves – Testing methods.

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NORDOM 638 (1st Rev.) Code of practices for the prevention and reduction of tin contamination in canned foods.

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Honduras – ARSA updates the list of ingredients along with their minimum and maximum daily concentrations, as well as the evaluation and classification criteria for nutritional supplements

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The Health Regulatory Agency (ARSA in Spanish) has released Communication C-009-ARSA-VA, which updates the list of ingredients along with their minimum and maximum daily concentrations, as well as the evaluation and classification criteria for nutritional supplements (LIS-DAB-001-V2).

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Ecuador – ARCSA announces a reform of the Technical Health Regulation for the analysis of post-registration or post-notification quality control of products intended for human use and consumption that are subject to health control and surveillance

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The National Agency for Regulation, Control, and Sanitary Surveillance (ARCSA in Spanish) has made public the draft of the Partial Reform to Resolution ARCSA-DE-2021-015-AKRG, through which the “Technical Sanitary Norm for the analysis of quality control post-registration or post-notification of products for human use and consumption subject to sanitary control and surveillance” was published in the Official Register No. 574 on November 10, 2021.

Products for human use and consumption subject to sanitary control and surveillance are those products that the Agency regulates, controls, and monitors, including: processed foods, food additives, processed water, general medications, biological products, processed natural products for medicinal use, homeopathic products, medical devices for human use, cosmetics, domestic hygiene products, personal hygiene absorbent products, industrial hygiene products, hospital-use disinfectant hygiene products, food-grade disinfectants, and pesticides for domestic, industrial, and public health use.

Article 5.- Replace Articles 7 and 8 of CHAPTER IV “ON POST-REGISTRATION OR POST-NOTIFICATION QUALITY CONTROL ANALYSES” with the following:
“Article 7.- The post-registration or post-notification quality control analyses aim to verify that products for human use and consumption maintain the conditions that allowed for the obtaining of the sanitary registration, mandatory sanitary notification, sanitary notification, or the unique BPM code, as applicable, and that the water for human consumption meets the applicable quality standards and criteria.

Public consultation:
From 12/08/2025 to 10/09/2025

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