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Mercosur Proposes Updates to Additives for Food Contact Materials: Seeking Public Feedback
The trade bloc of South America (Mercosur) has released a preliminary regulatory proposal aimed at modernizing the roster of permissible additives for food contact materials.
Should the proposal gain approval, it would result in an update to technical regulation No 02/12. The key addition would be the inclusion of tetramethyl bisphenol F diglycyl ether in the 'positive list' for food contact materials, which specifies authorized plastics and polymeric coatings.
Additionally, the proposal would impose restrictions on the use of polyamide-imide 2, confining it to being a binding agent exclusively for high-temperature resistant cookware.
For these changes to become legally binding in each of the Mercosur countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, they would need to integrate this standard into their national legislations.
Interested parties are invited to submit their comments on the proposal by the 30th of October.
We acknowledge that the above information has been compiled from WTO.
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