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07/06/2016
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Law comes into force on January 1 2017
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President Michel Temer in year enacted a law that requires manufacturers to report on the label if a product contains lactose.
The new rule was published in the "Official Gazette" of July 5 and comes into force in 180 days, ie on 1 January 2017.
Still according to the extent the food labels whose original lactose content has been changed shall inform the remaining lactose.
On 3 July, came into effect a resolution of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), which obliges food manufacturers to report on the label the presence of the main foods that cause allergies, including milk.
According to the standard, the labels of food and beverages shall inform the existence of 17 foods: wheat (rye, barley, oats and their hybridized strains); crustaceans; eggs; fishes; peanut; Soy; milk of all mammals; almond; hazelnut; cashew nut; Brazil nuts; macadamia; nuts; ask; pistachios; pine nuts; nuts, and natural latex.
Derivatives of these products should bring information "Allergy sufferers: Contains (common names of foods that cause food allergies)," "Allergic: Contains derivatives (common names of foods that cause food allergies)" or "Allergic: Contains (common names foods that cause food allergies) and derivatives ".
Source: Extra
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