Decree 315/994
This Bromatological Regulation consists of 30 chapters. It incorporates the standards already approved in this area in the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius in all those cases where there is express text.
According to Luz Helena Vargas, the first legal loophole has to do with CBD, “because although the authorities gave the green light to the use of THC products, CBD products are much more commercially attractive, a category for which will still be subject to the regulations issued by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection,” she explained.
Second, for now there is no regulation on the microbiological requirements for foods containing this ingredient (plant component, grain and non-psychoactive derivative of cannabis), therefore, “if an application is submitted at this time, it is not possible to start the procedures immediately, you have to wait until the ministry defines the specific requirements that these products must meet,” he said.
Draft Commission Implementing Regulation laying down rules on conformity checks of marketing standards for olive oil and methods of analysis of the characteristics of olive oil. This draft act includes provisions from the current EU legislation on olive oil standards (Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 29/2012) which relate to conformity checks carried out by EU Member States’ control authorities, collaboration on those checks, obligations of control authorities and operators as well as methods of analysis for determining the characteristics of olive oil.
The National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT) banned the use, distribution and commercialization throughout the country of a series of supplements promoted for “focus, concentration and memory” in capsules, powders and drops.
Provision 2105/2022 published this Tuesday in the Official Gazette indicates that these are the products “Newmind – Noopept – GVS -111 powder; Newmind – F-Phenibut powder; PURENOOTROPICS Noopept capsules; PURENOOTROPICS Noopept powder; NOOPEPT sublingual, PURE NOOTROPICS; B-12 sublingual PURENOOTROPICS; and PURENOOTROPICS BACOGNIZE Bacopa Monnier”.
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), UNICEF and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) highlighted today the regulation by the Executive Power of the Law for the Promotion of Healthy Food, known as the Frontal Labeling Law, which is key to protecting the right to health and access to information about the products consumed by the population.
The rule establishes the obligation to carry warnings on the front of the packaging of processed and ultra-processed products -those with excess sugars, saturated fats, total fats and sodium- that children and adolescents consume to a greater extent than adults.
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