The Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria e Inocuidad Alimentaria (SENASAGen Spanish acronym) has published Resolution RA_0208_2023 on Regulations for the Registration of Transport Vehicles and Issuance of Interdepartmental Transport Guide for Milk Products and Byproducts and Derivatives.
This Administrative Resolution will be of mandatory application mandatory, in all the National territory and will be applicable to all natural and juridical persons, whether public or private, with or without or private, with or without profit purposes, that have interests or develop their main or secondary activities in the field of milk secondary activities in the field of agricultural health and food safety.
Ecuador – Draft External Instructions on the evaluation of restaurants, cafeterias and other collective food establishments
The National Agency for Regulation, Control and Sanitary Surveillance (ARCSA in Spanish) has published the Draft External Instructions on the evaluation of restaurants, cafeterias and other collective food establishments. This process is intended only for Restaurants, Cafeterias and other food service establishments that elaborate that elaborate and commercialize food for immediate consumption, which are exempted from obtaining the sanitary notification, being able to also commercialize processed food for immediate consumption. processed foods that may require sanitary notification, as the case may be.
sanitary notification.
Public Consultation: From 05/09/2023 to 26/09/2023
Paraguay – Extension of the public consultation period for the Regulation of Law No. 7092 on the front warning labeling of packaged foods
The National Institute of Food and Nutrition (INAN in Spanish) has extended the deadline for public consultation of the Regulation Law No. 7092 Frontal warning labeling of packaged foods, until October 2, 2023.
For sending suggestions, considerations, opinions and relevant corrections please send to the following institutional email addresses.
asuntosregulatorios.inan@gmail.com
direccion@inan.gov.py
Brazil – ANVISA publishes public consultation to include D-ribose as an ingredient in food supplements
The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Public Consultation No. 1.199/2023 on the proposed amendment of Normative Instruction No. 28, dated July 26, 2018, which establishes the lists of constituents, limits of use, claims and labeling of food supplements to include D-ribose.
Argentina – Identification and labeling requirements for food contact food containers and utensils
The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and the Secretariat of Quality in Health published Joint Resolution 25/2023 that incorporates Article 184 bis to the Argentine Food Code, which will be worded as follows: “Article 184 bis: Food containers and utensils in contact with food shall comply with the Identification and Labeling Requirements, which appear in the Annex that, registered under No. IF-2020-82726828-APN-DLEIAER#ANMAT, is part of this Article.”
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