Regulatory news in the Americas
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and Office of Food Policy and Response (OFPR) released a list of draft and final guidance topics that are a priority for the FDA Foods Program to complete during the next 12 months.
The agency anticipates it will publish many of these documents by January 2023
ANVISA’s Organizational Governance Policy has just been disclosed. The measure was published in the Official Gazette (D.O.U. in Portuguese). The norm improves the leadership, strategy and control mechanisms to promote effective performance, responsible management and ethical conduct of its agents and collaborators.
Provision 492/2022 establishes the prohibition of “the elaboration, fractionation and commercialization throughout the national territory of the falsified product whose label reads: Mayonnaise reduced in lipid value gluten-free without tacc, brand: NATURA, fantasy name: mayonnaise with lemon juice, RNE: 19000208-9, RNPA: 19010390, VEN: 03/28/22 05 L: 07/01/21 2138 1V4″. The reason is that it lacks records and is “falsely labeled by using records of an establishment and product belonging to the firm NIZA S.A, turning out to be an illegal product.”
The National Agricultural Council (CNA in Spanish) affirms that the update to commercial and sanitary regulations NOM-187, for wheat and corn derivatives, implies a double labeling for products regulated by NOM-51 with nutritional warning stamps, according to the industry.
The deputies of the Health Commission of the National Assembly support the project of deputy Mayín Correa that eliminates and regulates the use of trans fats in industrial food production.
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