Amendment to the Food Sanitary Regulation on pasteurization and fortification of milk and wheat flour is published.

The Ministry of Health published Decree No. 29, with a series of amendments to the Food Sanitary Regulations related to:

• Pasteurization of liquid milk.
• Fortification with vitamin D. Liquid/fluid milk: a single dose of 1 µg/100 ml, which may be exceeded by up to 40%, reaching 1.4 µg/100 ml.
• Quality requirements for milk powders and cream powder
• Vitamin D fortification of milk powder.
• Vitamin D fortification of wheat flour.

The purpose of the draft regulation is to establish the regulatory regulatory provisions of Law No. 31348, Law that proposes the enrichment of rice in Peru, which apply to national or foreign natural or legal persons (millers, importers, providers of social food programs, among others), involved in the rice production and consumption chain, within the framework of their competences.

Husked rice (cargo rice or brown rice) (HS Code(s): 100620); – Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed (HS Code(s): 100620)
Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed (HS Code(s): 100630); – Broken rice (HS Code(s): 100640).