ANVISA amends microbiological standards for meat products
Brazil
Sep 10, 2024
The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA in Portuguese) has published Normative Instruction IN No. 313, dated September 4, 2024, which contains microbiological standards for meat products and modifies Normative Instruction No. 161, dated July 1, 2022.
The new regulation stipulates that “foods ready to be offered to the consumer that present deterioration that alters their physical, chemical or organoleptic characteristics are considered to be of unacceptable quality and are not subject to the application of the microbiological standards referred to in this Normative Instruction.”
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