On March 22, 2021, the Consumer Agency of Japan issued Notice No. 120 of the Digestion Table, which made partial amendments to the "Guidelines for the Application of Functionally Labeled Foods" and the "Questions and Answers Related to Functionally Labeled Foods".

The purpose of this revision is to improve the convenience of using the functionally labeled food declaration database and to improve the database technically. When using the database to make declaration materials, part of the manually input information is changed to automatic input. Please refer to the old and new comparison table for details of the modification.

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Because 1 outer packaging sample of a batch of frozen salmon, 2 outer packaging samples of a batch of frozen pollock, and 1 outer packaging sample of a batch of frozen pollock were detected as positive for COVID-19 nucleic acid, according to the regulations of the General Administration of Customs Announcement No. 103 of 2020, the national customs will suspend the acceptance of Russian aquatic product manufacturers Kamchatmoreproduct LLC (registration number CH-603), PCF "Yuzhno-Kyrilsky Ryibocombinat" Co., Ltd. (registration number CH-201) and JSC "Yuzhmorrybflot" (registration number CH-702) for one week.

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"National Food Safety Standard, Infant Formula" (GB 10765-2021), "National Food Safety Standard, Older Infant Formula" (GB 10766-2021) and "National Food Safety Standard, Young Children Formula" (GB 10767-2021) (hereinafter referred to as the new national standards) was released on March 22, 2021 and will be implemented on March 22, 2023. In order to do a good job in the product formula registration of infant formula milk powder after the issuance of the new national standard.

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On March 15, 2021, the Brazilian National Sanitary Inspection Agency (ANVISA) issued Regulation IN No 87 and Resolution No. RDC481, promulgating two regulations on the quality and hygiene of vegetable oils and fats.

The former mainly stipulates the types of oil crops allowed to be used to produce vegetable oils, the fatty acid content requirements of various vegetable oils, and the quality index requirements (acid value and peroxide content); the latter mainly includes definitions and product classifications (including Single-component vegetable oils, compound vegetable oils, modified vegetable oils, etc.), various product components and quality and hygiene requirements (partially citing IN NO 87 regulations), regulations on other ingredients and additives that are allowed to be added, and labeling of vegetable oils General and special requirements, etc.

The two appeal regulations will be implemented from the date of promulgation, and the transition period for some clauses is 12 months.

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On March 25, the Food evaluation Center of the State Administration for Market Regulation updated the list of approval document (decision) for the registration of infant formula milk powder products, which involves Aiximu infant formula milk powder (0-6 months old, 1 paragraph), Yujian Infant formula milk powder (0-6 months old, 1 stage), infant formula milk powder (0-6 months old, 1 stage) and other 11 kinds of infant formula milk powder.

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