One month after the General Directorate of Medicines, Food and Health Products (DIGEMAPS in Spanish) ceased to be a unit attached to the Ministry of Public Health to become a decentralized institution with Decree N°231-23, the entity is working on improving and modernizing some of its processes.
Among them is the homologation of sanitary registrations of foods brought from countries such as the United States and those that are part of the European Union.
The Chamber of Deputies approved the Bill “that modifies the Sanitary Code, to define the concept of meat and prohibit giving that denomination to products that are not of animal origin”.
Now the bill will pass to the Senate where it will begin its last instance of discussion to become a law.
This legislation includes a clause that states that “the names associated with products of animal origin, such as ‘hamburger’, ‘chorizo’, ‘sausage’, ‘sausage’, ‘jerky’, among others, cannot be used to describe, promote or market food products that contain a greater proportion of vegetable matter than meat”.
Update of the instructions in accordance with Resolution ARCSA-DE-2022-001-JPFJ issuing the Technical Sanitary Regulations for obtaining the certificate of requirement or not of sanitary registration, sanitary notification or mandatory sanitary notification of products for human use and consumption subject to control and surveillance. products for human use and consumption subject to control and surveillance by the National of the National Agency of Regulation, Control and Sanitary Surveillance – ARCSA, Dr. Leopoldo ARCSA, Doctor Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez.
Definitions update
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.
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.
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