infant formula

Brazil – ANVISA invites stakeholders to participate in sectoral dialogues on food regulation

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) will hold, on Thursday, March 13, two sectoral dialogues on food regulation. Participation in the dialogues is open to all, without prior registration.

Infant formula regulations

The virtual sectorial dialogue will discuss the review and consolidation of regulations on infant formulas for infants and young children, follow-on foods and cereal-based foods for infants and young children, enteral nutrition formulas and dietary therapy formulas for inborn errors of metabolism.

Regulation of plant-based foods

In the afternoon, the Sectoral Dialogue on Plant-Based Food Regulation will be held. This dialogue aims to discuss issues relevant to the regulation of foods of plant origin, with emphasis on:

(a) presentation of the activities carried out by Anvisa in 2024 on the subject and proposal of regulatory flow that will be submitted to the deliberation of the Collegiate Council for the opening of the regulatory process;

(b) proposal for periodic updating of the lists of food additives and technological adjuvants authorized for use in products imitating dairy products and other standardized animal products.

Canada – Health Canada’s strategy to manage shortages of infant formula and other foods for a special dietary purpose and to modernize related regulations

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The purpose of this notice is to announce Health Canada’s strategy to continue addressing shortages of infant formula and other foods for a special dietary purpose by extending the Interim policy on the importation and sale of infant formulas, human milk fortifiers and dietary products for the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism to mitigate shortages. This notice also communicates Health Canada’s commitment to initiate work on the modernization of the regulations for infant formula and other foods for a special dietary purpose and the department’s plans for a public consultation in the fall of 2023.

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