Regulatory news in the Americas
The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) approved, this Wednesday (11/13), the 7th edition of the Brazilian Pharmacopoeia, which updates the compendium with the inclusion of 12 new articles among methods, monographs and pharmacopoeia texts.
In the case of the seventh edition of the compendium, two working groups were formed to prepare proposals for the chapter on the monocyte activation test and the chapter on in vitro-in vivo correlation studies.
The Decentralized Service for Standardization, Quality, Metrology and Technical Regulations (SENCAMER in Spanish) has published the draft revision of the COVENIN 412:2024 Cooked sausage standard. Contributions from interested parties will be received until November 29, 2024.
The National Agency for Regulation, Control and Sanitary Surveillance (ARCSA in Spanish) has published a report on Regulatory Impact Analysis on the health risk generated by the consumption of processed foods that do not meet their quality and safety specifications.
The purpose of the report is to establish new guidelines for food processing plants to guarantee to the general population the supply and consumption of processed foods that meet their quality and safety specifications, through the presentation of laboratory analyses, stability studies and technical specifications, minimizing the probability of contracting foodborne diseases (FBDs) that compromise public health.
Alejandro Bongiovanni and Daiana Fernández Molero, members of the Republican Proposal party (PRO in Spanish), are promoting a bill in Congress to repeal the Law for the Promotion of Healthy Food – Front Labeling Regime Law No. 27.642. For the deputies, the legislation passed in December 2021, “has served only to confuse consumers and hinder the international trade of Argentine products.
The project consists of three articles and aims at “restoring the freedom of food producers and consumers, through the repeal of the Front Labeling Regime Law No. 27,642, whose objectives are met more effectively with the regulations already in force in the Food Code in relation to labeling, marketing and information”.
The Ministry of Production through the National Institute of Quality (INACAL in Spanish) approved a total of thirteen (13) new Peruvian Technical Standards (NTP), most of them related to the food industry in order to guarantee food safety.
These technical standards, which were approved through Directorial Resolution N° 025-2024-INACAL/DN, seek to develop the services of the Quality Infrastructure and promote their use in the different economic sectors of the country.
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