Canada – Canadian Food Inspection Agency launches consultation on origin labelling of imported foods from a contested territory

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Consumers are increasingly knowledgeable about food labels, and labelling is one of the most important and direct ways for the industry to share information. All food sold in Canada must be properly labelled in a way that is not false or misleading, including origin indications.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has launched a consultation with consumers and other interested stakeholders to obtain feedback on how to label the origin of imported food from contested territories. For the purpose of this consultation, a contested territory means an area outside of Canada that is subject to competing claims of control by third parties.

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Brazil – Draft Technical Regulations on Identity and Quality for Frozen Fish, Frozen Fish in Brine and Frozen Fish in Brine for Canning

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA in Portuguese) published ORDINANCE SDA/MAPA No. 832/2033 that exposes to public consultation the Technical Regulation of Identity and Quality for frozen fish, frozen brine fish and frozen brine fish for canning.

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

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Paraguay – Draft Technical Regulations for Processed Cereal-Based Foods for Infants and Young Children

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The Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare published the project that approves the TECHNICAL REGULATION FOR FOODS PROCESSED FROM CEREALS FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN.
This Technical Regulation applies to cereal-based foods intended to complement the normal diet of children from 6 months to 36 months of age, taking into account individual nutritional needs, respecting their physiological maturity and neuropsychomotor development to feed infants and young children as part of a progressive and diversified diet.

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

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Brazil – Draft Ordinance to establish minimum requirements for the identity and quality of analogous products of plant origin and labeling standards for these products

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA in Portuguese) published ORDINANCE SDA/MAPA No. 831/2033 that exposes to public consultation, for a period of 75 days, counted from the date of publication of this Ordinance, the project Ordinance to establish the minimum identity and quality requirements for similar plant products, rules of origin, visual identity and labeling of these products.

For further information, you can access the original source in Portuguese
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Article – Nutritional information on the labels of processed and ultra-processed foods and beverages marketed in a supermarket chain in Lima in 2022

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Objectives. To estimate the number of processed and ultra-processed beverages and foods that provide nutritional information on their packaging, and to describe the characteristics of this information, as well as to determine the presence of nutritional information on products with octagons. Materials and methods. Photographs were taken of the labels of 4404 processed and ultra-processed beverages and foods marketed in supermarkets in Metropolitan Lima. The information on the label was collected and registered in the mobile and web version of the Food Label Information Program (FLIP). We analyzed
variables related to the nutritional information, the way in which such information is declared and the information in beverages and foods with octagons. Results. Only 71.4% of the products had some type of nutritional information. Of these, 13.8% provided the nutritional information as a text and not in a table, and only 56.3% declared it per 100 grams or milliliters. Of the total number of foods with the
octagon “Contains trans fats”, only 19.2% declared their content. Conclusions. More than a quarter of the beverages and packaged foods in the Peruvian market did not provide nutritional information of any kind, and of those that did, only one did so in different formats and units. In addition, we found that a proportion of beverages and foods for each type of octagon did not declare information of the nutrient
that is mentioned in the octagon.

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