The E-Government and Information and Knowledge Society Agency has published for public consultation “Modification of Resolution No. 63/18 ‘MERCOSUR Technical Regulations on the Allocation of Additives and their Maximum Limits for Meat and Meat Products’.
The document submitted for public consultation includes acetic acid, INS 260, with acidulant function, concentration limit 2g/100g and with the note “only for treatment of natural wrappings”, for food category 8: Meat and Meat Products, subcategories 8.2.1.2 Dried Sausage and 8.2.1.3 Cooked Sausage, regulated in Resolution GMC No. 63/18.

The Ministry of Development, Industry and Commerce (MIFIC in Spanish) published the draft standard NTON 03003 Meat and Meat Products. Meat of Poultry (Gallus gallus domesticus), slaughtered whole, its cuts and giblets for Human Consumption. Sanitary and Safety Requirements.
The purpose of the standard is “to establish the safety requirements to be met by poultry (Gallus gallus domesticus) prepared whole or cut, and their offal, intended for human consumption, as well as the sanitary requirements to be met by processing establishments”.

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry published the project DGNTI 8 – 241 – 98. Technical regulation on meat and its derivatives. Sausages. General. The purpose of this regulation is to establish the definitions and general specifications that sausages intended for human consumption must comply with.