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Anvisa prohibits selling lot of tomato paste with the rodent

07/18/2016

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The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) prohibited the marketing and distribution of a lot of tomato paste brand Heinz, which owns the rodent above the accepted limit. The measure affects L06 lot, valid on April 1, 2017, the product manufactured by Heinz Brazil. The regulator establishes that products tomato products such as sauces, puree, pulp and extract have no more than a fragment of the rodent every 100 grams.

The resolution was published in the Federal Official Gazette on Monday and takes into account a report issued by the Foundation Ezequiel Dias (LACEN-MG), which detects foreign matter.

Anvisa also determined that the company promotes the gathering of the existing stock on the market.

Understand the limits

Anvisa has a resolution that determines to what extent the presence of foreign substances in certain products is allowed. According to the agency, is considered a strange item any material that is not part of the food composition and that may be associated with inadequate conditions of production, handling, storage or distribution.

According to Anvisa, the standard is among the strictest in the world. The thresholds vary according to the food. Cinnamon, for example, is extracted from the bark of a tree, you can optionally carry insect fragments. Therefore, Anvisa considers acceptable 50g cinnamon have up to 100 insect fragments. The same amount of spice can have up to a rodent of the fragment to be approved by Anvisa.

 

Source: Extra

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