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Argentina – ANMAT incorporation of oak wood chips (Quercus petraea) to flavor alcoholic beverages

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The National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT) and the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Argentina, thru Joint Resolution 4/2025, incorporate oak wood chips (Quercus petraea) for flavoring distilled alcoholic beverages into Chapter XVI “Correctives and Adjuncts” of the Argentine Food Code (CAA).

ARTICLE 1. Article 1201 bis is hereby incorporated into the Argentine Food Code, and shall be worded as follows: “Article 1201 bis: By the term “oak chips” is meant oak staves, pieces, and/or shavings, whether used separately or in combination, in the production of distilled alcoholic beverages for the purpose of imparting certain characteristics derived from that wood.

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Brazil – ANVISA opens a specific public consultation on the evaluation of measures to restrict industrial trans fats

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) has opened a specific consultation on the Regulatory Outcomes Assessment Plan (ARR) for measures restricting the use of industrial trans fats in food.

The objective is to gather technical input from researchers, public bodies, laboratories, and representatives of the productive sector to improve evaluation planning. The consultation is part of the preparatory phase of the Evaluation Review process and aims to ensure that the evaluation questions, indicators, and data sources are adequate for measuring the effects of Collegiate Board Resolution 632/2022 (RDC), a regulation that restricted the use of industrially produced trans fats in the country’s food supply.

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Brazil – ANVISA proposes reviewing the regulations on nutritional labeling of packaged foods

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) has published Public Consultation No. 1,358, dated October 31, 2025, on the proposal to revise the regulations on nutritional labeling of packaged foods.

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Brazil – Anvisa promotes sectoral dialog on foods for special uses

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On November 17, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Anvisa will hold a Virtual Sectoral Dialog on foods for special purposes.

  • The purpose of this meeting is to present and discuss two draft regulations that are currently under development: the proposed Normative Instruction (IN) establishing the periodic update of IN 367/2025; and
  • The proposal for a specific amendment to the Collegiate Board Resolution (RDC) 976/2025, intended to correct unintentional substantive changes.

The initiative seeks to promote transparency and dialog with the regulated sector and other stakeholders, enabling the exchange of technical information and the clarification of doubts about the proposed changes.

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Ecuador – ARSA proposes a project on requirements for modifying the health notification of foods for special dietary uses

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The National Agency for Health Regulation, Control and Surveillance (ARSA in Spanish) has published a draft of “Requirements for Modifying the Health Notification of Foods for Special Dietary Regimens” V2.0.
It is updated in accordance with the guidelines established in Resolution ARCSA-DE-2024-015-DASP, by which the Partial Amendment to the Sanitary Technical Regulations for obtaining the health notification certificate and registration of processing plants certified in good manufacturing practices for foods for special dietary uses, distribution, marketing, and transportation establishments, Published in Official Gazette No. 546 of September 27, 2021.

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