The Secretary of Defense of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (SDA / MAPA) published in the Official Gazette of this Friday (01), Normative Instruction No. 17, which approved the Technical Regulation on the Identity and Requirements of Seasoned meat quality.
Now, 31% of those products that were still pre-approved for registration will have automatic registration. This will expedite the registration for the producing companies and will reduce the time of analysis of the requests of the other products that depend on the prior approval of the Department of Inspection of Animal Products (DIPOA). The standard covers meats and seasoned children of different animal species (cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, other butchers and fish).
The measure, according to Minister Blairo Maggi, “will relieve our servers of analytical work, expedite registration for companies (it will be immediate) and reduce the queue for products that still need analysis.”
With the publication of Decree No. 9,013, of the Regulation of Industrial and Sanitary Inspection of Products of Animal Origin (RIISPOA), in March of last year, the parameters related to these products began to require regulation. The elaboration of IN resulted from public consultation and contribution of different technical areas of the DIPOA, the National Agricultural Laboratory and representatives of the productive sector indicated by the Sectorial Chamber.
Establishments that already have temperate meat products registered will have a period of 365 days from the publication of IN to update the registration of their products and meet the requirements established in the approved technical regulation. One of the requirements is that they have specific packaging that guarantees protection against contamination and must be kept under adequate storage and transport conditions.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.