Agave syrup added to authorized sugary foods
Argentina
May 23, 2023
The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and Secretariat of Quality in Health publish Joint Resolution 17/2023. This Resolution incorporates in Article 778 of Chapter X: "Sugary Foods", agave syrup. Agave syrup is understood as syrup produced by hydrolysis from fructans (polysaccharides consisting of fructose units with or without a terminal or internal glucose unit linked by ß-2,1 and/or ß-2,6 glycosidic bonds) from plants of the agavaceae family (Agavaceae).
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