The Americas – Argentina: Medical cannabis and industrial Hemp Bill approved

09/05/2022 / infoAlimentario

The initiative, which has been approved by the Senate, creates the regulatory framework for the production and national commercialization for export of the cannabis plant, its seeds and derived products for medicinal use, including scientific research and industrial use, promoting the development of the sector’s production chain.

In addition, a regulatory agency, the Agencia Regulatoria del Cáñamo y del Cannabis Medicinal (ARICCAME in Spanish), will be created. It will regulate the import, export, cultivation, industrial production, manufacture, commercialization and acquisition of seeds, the cannabis plant and its derivative products for medicinal or industrial purposes.

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The Americas – USA: Draft Guidance for Industry: Policy Regarding N-acetyl-L-cysteine

26/04/2022 / infoAlimentario

The purpose of this guidance is to advise dietary supplement manufacturers, distributors, and other stakeholders of our intent to exercise enforcement discretion with respect to the sale and distribution of certain products that contain N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) and are labeled as dietary supplements. As described below, the enforcement discretion policy would apply to products that would be lawfully marketed dietary supplements if NAC were not excluded from the definition of “dietary supplement” and that are not otherwise in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act).

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Around the World – Denmark: Government proposes to create a climate label for foodstuffs

26/04/2022 / infoAlimentario

The Danish Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries announced an investment of 1.2 million euros for the development of the new labeling whose proposals will be presented later this year. The idea is to have a unified climate label that is controlled by the state, and in which consumers can trust, thus avoiding the presence of a wide variety of labels that only confuse.

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The Americas – Peru: Importers may use the Front of package warning labels octagons by means of stickers

26/04/2022 / infoAlimentario

The Commission on Dumping, Subsidies and Non-Tariff Trade Barriers of the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI in Spanish) Indecopi, through Resolution No. 73-2022/CDB-INDECOPI, declared as a non-tariff trade barrier the prohibition of the use of stickers with advertising warnings that must be consigned on imported processed foods and soft drinks.

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Articles – Mexico: Evaluation of the Mexican warning label nutrient profile on food products marketed in Mexico in 2016 and 2017: A cross-sectional analysis

26/04/2022 / infoAlimentario

Different nutrient profiles (NPs) have been developed in Latin America to assess the nutritional quality of packaged food products. Recently, the Mexican NP was developed as part of the new warning label regulation implemented in 2020, considering 5 warning octagons (calories, sugar, sodium, saturated fats, and trans fats) and 2 warning rectangles (caffeine and non-nutritive sweeteners). The objective of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the Mexican NP and other NPs proposed or used in Latin America against the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) model.