This project shows graphically the progress of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA in Spanish) in the enactment of local regulations governing the implementation of the Law on Promotion of Healthy Eating (PAS in Spanish) in the jurisdictions, and makes visible the process of regulation at the national level. It seeks to be a tool to promote and strengthen the full implementation of the law in all territories of Argentina.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA in Portuguese) published ORDINANCE SDA/MAP No. 857 on public consultation of the Technical Regulation, which establishes the identity and quality standards to be met by dairy beverages. For the purposes of this regulation, dairy beverage is a dairy product, the composite dairy product, obtained from milk, reconstituted milk or dairy derivatives, or a combination thereof, with or without the addition of dairy ingredients.
The Department of Nutrition and Food, of the Division of Healthy Public Policies and Health Promotion of the Ministry of Health, published the draft modification of the “Message promoting healthy lifestyle habits in Food advertising” established in Decree N°1/2017 of the Ministry of Health.
Food or food products must include in their advertising carried out in mass media, a warning message, hereinafter referred to as the “Message”, when they have been “Message”, when sodium, sugars and saturated fats have been added to them, and content exceeds the value established in article 120 bis of the Supreme Decree No. 977 of 1996, of the Decree No. 977 of 1996, of the Ministry of Health, for those nutrients, or when they exceed the levels established for calories, sugars and saturated fats. when they exceed the levels established for calories and sugars or saturated fats have been added. sugars or saturated fats.
The Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU) published the MERCOSUR Technical Regulations in public consultation.
The National Institute of Food and Nutrition (INAN in Spanish) presents to the public opinion, the industry and the productive sector in general, the Draft Decree of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, which regulates Law No. 7092 “on front warning labeling of packaged foods.
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