The Americas – Brazil: ANVISA publishes guidelines on the application of the regulation of vegetable oils and fats

20/02/2022 / infoAlimentario

The National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Spanish) published a guide on Questions and Answers on vegetable oils and fats used in food. The publication clarifies frequent doubts about the new regulation on the matter, Resolution (RDC) 481/2021 and Normative Instruction (IN) 87/2021.

For further information, you can access the original source in Portuguese

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The Americas – Jamaica: Draft Jamaican Standard Specification for Processed foods – ketchup

20/02/2022 / infoAlimentario

The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) published Standard Specification for Processed Foods, ketchup. This document stipulates general and detailed requirements not only for traditional ketchup made from tomato, but also for ketchup made from other fruits and vegetables. This standard is intended to apply to products labelled as “ketchup” made from tomato or from other fruits and/or vegetables, and offered for direct consumption. This standard is intended to be compulsory, consumer information, labelling.

Proposed date of adoption: 30 December 2022

For further information, you can access the original source

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The Americas – Ecuador: Consultation on Technical Regulation for Processed Foods and Collective Feeding published

20/02/2022 / infoAlimentario

The purpose of this technical sanitary standard is to establish:

Good Manufacturing Practices for food processing plants;
Requirements to be met by the processes of manufacturing, production, processing, preparation, packaging, packing, assembly, transportation, storage, importation, distribution and commercialization of processed foods for human consumption.
Requirements for registration, re-registration and modification of the sanitary notification of domestic and foreign processed foods.
Requirements for registration of certificates of Good Manufacturing Practices.
Requirements for the Certificate of Free Sale.

For further information, you can access the original source in Spanish

The Americas – Argentina: Food Code amendments on bitter substances prohibited and permitted in foods published

20/02/2022 / infoAlimentario

Article 1293 is modified: The following are considered harmful bitter substances and therefore prohibited for use in the food industry:

Those that contain alkaloids: Opium poppy (Papaver spp), Belladonna (Atropa belladona L.), Barley, Coca (Erythroxylum coca), Jimson weed (Datura spp), San Ignacio beans (Strychnos spp), Nux vomica (Strychnos nuxvomica).
Those that contain irritating, drastic or purgative principles: Cantáridas, Coca de Levante (Anamirta cocculus L.), Coloquíntida (Citrullus colocynthis Schrad L.), Grains of paradise (Melia azerdarach L.), except in the cases expressly permitted in the present Code.”

Article 1294 is modified: The following are considered bitter substances of permitted use:

Chicory: Root of the plant Cichorium intybus aromatic calamus
Angostura: Bark of Galipea officinalis Hancock (G. cusparia A St Hill)
10 additional substances.

For further information, you can access the original source in Spanish

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The Americas – Chile: Conadecus study detected non-compliance in the labeling of chocolate ice cream

20/02/202220/02/2022 / infoAlimentario

The National Corporation of Consumers and Users (Conadecus in Spanish) conducted a study on chocolate ice cream in Chile and detected “non-conformities” with food labeling. A detailed observation revealed that there are 109 components in the product, mainly additives. Some examples are non-nutritive sweeteners, fat antioxidants, emulsifiers and flavor enhancers.