Brazil – ANVISA publishes consolidated standards on additives and processing aids

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Spanish) has published the consolidation of the standards for food additives and technological adjuvants authorized for use in food. The purpose of this consolidation is to facilitate the identification of authorized substances, with their respective conditions of use, by both the regulated sector and the control authorities.

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

The requirements and lists of food additives and processing aids authorized for use in foods are now included in two resolutions and one normative instruction:

Resolution of the Collegiate Council – DRC 778/2023, establishing the general principles, technological functions and conditions of use of food additives and food technology adjuvants.

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Regulatory Instruction 211/2023, establishing the technological functions, maximum limits and conditions of use of food additives and food technology aids authorized for use in food.

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Collegiate Council Resolution – RDC 779/2023, establishing chemical yeast food additives and biological yeast processing aids and yeast nutrients intended for use in bakery and biscuit products.

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Argentina – Amendment to the Argentine Food Code on incident management and product recall procedure

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By Joint Resolution 2/2023 RESFC-2023-2-APN-SCS#MS the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and the Secretariat of Quality in Health publishes the amendment of Article 1415 of the Argentine Food Code, which will be worded as follows: “Article 1415: Health Authorities and Food Companies shall apply the provisions set forth in the “Procedure for the Management of Incidents and Recall of Products.”

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

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Brazil – Creation of the Interministerial Chamber of Food and Nutritional Security

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Decree Decree No. 11422 created the Interministerial Chamber of Food and Nutritional Security as part of the National Food and Nutritional Security System – SISAN, created by Law No. 11,346 of September 15, 2006. Article 2 establishes that the Inter-Ministerial Chamber of Food and Nutritional Security is a collegiate body, of a permanent nature, of intersectoral articulation and integration of the organs and entities of the federal public administration related to the areas of food and nutritional sovereignty and security, food systems and the fight against hunger.

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

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Chile – Update of the “Feeding guide for children under 2 years of age. Feeding guide until adolescence”

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Taking into account the need to update knowledge on infant feeding, is that the Ministry of Health (MINSAL) directed an update of the document entitled: “GUIDE TO FOOD FOR CHILDREN UNDER 2 YEARS OF AGE EATING GUIDE TO ADOLESCENCE.”, developed in 2014, and last edition in 2016.

This new text will address those factors that health professionals should take into account in the individual care and guidance of children and their families, and provides general recommendations, based on the available scientific evidence and expert recommendations, focusing on the normal feeding that a healthy full-term child should receive.

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

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Chile – Consultation on microbiological criteria for treenuts

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The following proposed amendment to the Food Sanitary Regulations (articles 169, 173 and 452) aims to establish microbiological criteria for tree nuts, which are defined under the new table 14.10 of article 173. This clarifies the scope of application of what is indicated in several articles in which reference is made to dried fruits, nuts or others that in the current regulation are used indistinctly to speak of dried or dehydrated fruits, candied dried fruits and tree nuts and peanuts, which leads to confusion.
On the other hand, microbiological criteria are established for tea, mate and herbal infusions, and the nomenclature for the definition of tea species is modified.

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

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