• Brazil
• Processed
• Foods
• Contain
• Excessive
• Sodium
• Mortadela
• Food
• Standard
• Label

According to a review released on March 13 by Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), nearly 3 in 10 (28%) processed foods sold in the country contain excessive sodium.

• Australia
• Hope
• China
• Lift
• Restrictions
• Wine
• Imports

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Canberra hopes to agree on the eventual lifting of restrictions on Australian wine imports during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's upcoming visit to Australia.

• China
• Food
• Regulation
• Standard
• Review
• Foodmate

★Hong Kong: Import of poultry meat and products from Essex County of State of Massachusetts in US suspended★CFS has instructed the trade to suspend the import of poultry meat and products (including poultry eggs) from the above-mentioned areas with immedi

• India
• FSSAI
• revise
• nutritional
• food
• standards
• infants
• young
• children

On March 12, 2024, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) revised the standard for nutritional foods for infants and young children to be implemented from the date of publication.

• Brazil
• ANVISA
• Revise
• Standard
• Regulations
• Use
• Food
• Additive

On 12 March 2024, the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) published through the Official Gazette Directive IN No 286, which amends the standard regulations for the use of food additives (i.e., Directive IN No 211).

• UK
• DEFRA
• Revise
• Food
• Labeling
• Rule
• Country
• Origin
• Product
• Subject
• Pre-packaged

On 12 March 2024, the British Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) published a consultation paper on revised food labeling requirements, with a feedback period until 7 May 2024.

• Spain
• Amend
• Labelling
• Liqueur
• Food
• Regulations

On March 12, 2024, according to the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Council of Ministers approved changes to the conditions for the use of the words "dry" and "paledry" on liqueur labels.

• France
• Propose
• Revise
• Biohazard
• Description
• Table
• Food
• Transmission
• Aflatoxin
• Aflatoxin-Producing
• Mo

On March 11, 2024, the French Agency for Food Safety released the “Biohazard Description Table of Food Transmission: Aflatoxin and Other Aflatoxin-producing Molds”, which updates the description of the hazards of aflatoxins transmitted through food.

• India
• FSSAI
• Issue
• Implement
• Regulation
• Standards
• Packaged
• Drinking
• Water

On 12 March 2024, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued regulations for implementation of standards related to packaged drinking water (except mineral water).

• Korea
• MFDS
• Add
• Azelastine
• Food
• Ingredient
• Ban
• Imported

On 13 March, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) issued Announcement No. 2024-133, adding azelastine to the "Guidelines for Designating and Lifting the Ban on the Import of Raw Material Ingredients of Overseas Food, Etc." as a food ingre