The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Normative Instruction IN No. 351/2025 amending Normative Instruction – IN No. 160/2022, which establishes the maximum tolerated limits (MRLs) for contaminants in food.
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Brazil – Anvisa publishes results of monitoring additives and contaminants in food
The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) published the Food Additives and Contaminants in Food (Promac) Monitoring Program Report for the years 2021 to 2023.
The document presents the results of monitoring the content of food additives – benzoic acid, sorbic acid, bromates, artificial colors, sweeteners, nitrates, nitrites and sulfites – and inorganic and organic contaminants: metals (arsenic, cadmium and lead) and mycotoxins (aflatoxins). (e.g., deoxynivalenol – DON and ochratoxin A).
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