Among the items on the agenda at the VI meeting of the board of directors of the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) is the discussion on:

Process: 25351.913444/2023-52
Subject: Proposal for Regulatory Instruction – IN amending IN No. 211, of March 1, 2023, which establishes the technological functions, maximum limits and conditions of use of authorized food additives and technological adjuvants in food.
Scope: GGALI/DIRE2
Regulatory Agenda 2024-2025: Topic No. 3.34 – Periodic updating of the lists of food additives and technological adjuvants authorized in foods.

The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Normative Instruction IN No. 274, which amends Normative Instruction IN No. 211 of March 2023, which establishes the technological functions, maximum limits and conditions of use of food additives and technological aids authorized for use in food.
Annex III of Normative Instruction – IN No. 211 of 2023 comes into force, in addition to the food additives, their respective technological functions, maximum limits and conditions of use that appear in the Annex to this Normative Instruction.
This Normative Instruction comes into force on March 4, 2024.

The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese ) has published a draft Resolution that establishes the technological functions, maximum limits and conditions of use of food additives and technological aids authorized for use in foods.

The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published an amendment to the Normative Instruction – IN nº 211/2023 on the technological functions, maximum limits and conditions of use of food additives and technological aids authorized for use in foods.

Art. 2 Annex III of the Normative Instruction – IN No. 211, of 2023, enters into force with the exclusions contained in Annex I of this Normative Instruction.

Art. 3 Annex III of the Normative Instruction – IN nº 211, of 2023, enters into force with the modifications contained in Annex II of this Normative Instruction.

Art. 4 Annex III of the Normative Instruction – IN No. 211, of 2023, enters into force in addition to the food additives, their respective technological functions, maximum limits and conditions of use that appear in Annex III of this Normative Instruction.

Art. 5 Annex IV of the Normative Instruction – IN No. 211, of 2023, enters into force with the modifications contained in Annex IV of this Normative Instruction.

Art. 6 Annex IV of Normative Instruction – IN No. 211, of 2023, comes into force with the addition of the technological aids, their respective technological functions, maximum limits and conditions of use established in Annex V of this Normative Instruction.

The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Resolution – RDC No. 826/2023, which amends the Resolution of the Collegiate Council – RDC No. 778/2023, which establishes the general principles, technological functions and conditions for the use of food additives and technological aids in foods.

The maximum tolerable residual limit of ethylene oxide in food additives is established at 0.01 mg/kg, expressed in ethylene oxide and determined based on the sum of the amounts of ethylene oxide and 2-chloroethanol multiplied by 0. 55 (ethylene oxide + 2- chloroethanol x 0.55).