Laundry detergents - Compulsory requirements
Distribution date: 26 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 25 May 2020
This standard establishes compulsory requirements for laundry detergents. It specifies the chemical requirements for key parameters and also includes requirements for labelling of the packaging used for laundry detergents. This national standard is applicable to laundry detergent that is intended primarily for washing textile products using washing machines designed for household applications or by manual means. The requirements apply to laundry detergents in the following forms : powder; liquid; bar; and liquid laundry detergent packet, capsule or pod. This standard does not apply to detergents for washing and cleaning outside the domestic sphere, carried out by specialised personnel using specific products.
Products Covered: (HS code(s): 340290); Surface active agents (ICS code(s): 71.100.40)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Resolution – RDC number 348, 17 March 2020
Distribution date: 26 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025
This resolution establishes exceptional and temporary criteria and procedure for the processing of petitions for the market authorization of medicines, biological products, and in vitro diagnosis products; and for the post-market authorization of medicines and biological products due to the international public health emergency of the new coronavirus (Covid-19).
Products Covered: HS Code(s): 2941; 3002300; 3003; 3004; 3005; (pharmaceutical products, in vitro diagnosis products, biological products).
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Resolution – RDC number 350, 19 March 2020
Distribution date: 26 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025
This resolution establishes exceptional criteria and procedure for the manufacturing and sale of antiseptic preparations and sanitizers without previous market authorization from Anvisa and provides other measures due to the international public health emergency related to the SARS-CoV-2.
Products Covered: HS Code(s): 33079090, 38089990, 3402 (antiseptic preparations, sanitizer)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Resolution – RDC number 349, 19 March 2020
Distribution date: 26 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025
This Resolution establishes extraordinary and temporary criteria and procedure for the handling of petitions for the market authorization of individual protection equipment, lung ventilator equipment, and another medical devices identified as strategic by Anvisa, due to the international public health emergency of the new coronavirus (Covid-19).
Products Covered: HS Code(s): 2936, 2937, 3001, 3002, 3003, 3004, 3006, 63079090, 90192090 (medical devices, protection equipment, and lung ventilator)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Letter of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance No. FS-KS-7/8093 as of 17 March 2020
Distribution date: 30 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025
This letter introduces a temporary restriction on import of life poultry and poultry products mentioned in point 3 from Poland (Silesian and Łódź Voivodeships) due to the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
Products Covered: Live poultry, egg products, meat and edible offal of poultry, poultry meat products, daily chicks, incubation egg of poultry, incubation egg (except poultry egg), live bird (except poultry), feed and feed additives for birds, equipment for the maintenance, slaughter and cutting of birds HS Codes: 0105; 0407, 0408; 0207;0208,0209,0210,0410 00 000 0,0504 00 000 0,0505,0511,1501,1506 00 000 0,1516 10,1518 00,1601 00,1602, 1603 00,1902 20,1904 20,products from group 20, from 2104, from 2106, 4206 00 000 0, 0106; 508 10 000 0,0106,9705 00 000 0; 9508 10 000 0,0106; 2102, 2309, 2936, 3504, 3507, 3808, 3824; 3923,3926,4415 4416 00 000 0, 4421, 7020 00, 7309 00, 7310, 7326, 7616, 8436 10 000 0, 8436 21 000 0, 8436 29 000 0, 8436 80 900 0, 8606 91 800 0, 8609 00, 8716 39 800
Regulation Type: Emergency notifications (SPS)
Letter of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance No. FS-KS-7/8498 as of 19 March 2020 Letter of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance No. FS-KS-7/9419 as of 25 March 2020
Distribution date: 30 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025
These letters introduce a temporary restriction on import of life poultry and poultry products mentioned in point 3 from Germany (Leipzig and Aurig areas) due to the outbreak of high pathogenic avian influenza
Products Covered: Live poultry, egg products, meat and edible offal of poultry, poultry meat products, daily chicks, incubation egg of poultry, Incubation egg (except poultry egg), live bird (except poultry), feed and feed additives for birds, equipment for the maintenance, slaughter and cutting of birds HS Codes: 0105; 0407, 0408; 0207;0208,0209,0210,0410 00 000 0,0504 00 000 0,0505,0511,1501,1506 00 000 0,1516 10,1518 00,1601 00,1602, 1603 00,1902 20,1904 20,products from group 20, from 2104, from 2106, 4206 00 000 0, 0106; 508 10 000 0,0106,9705 00 000 0; 9508 10 000 0,0106; 2102, 2309, 2936, 3504, 3507, 3808, 3824; 3923,3926,4415 4416 00 000 0, 4421, 7020 00, 7309 00, 7310, 7326, 7616, 8436 10 000 0, 8436 21 000 0, 8436 29 000 0, 8436 80 900 0, 8606 91 800 0, 8609 00, 8716 39 800;
Regulation Type: Emergency notifications (SPS)
Resolution – RDC number 356, 23 March 2020.
Distribution date: 30 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025
This resolution establishes exceptional criteria and procedure for the manufacturing, import, and acquisition of medical devices identified as indispensable for the use in healthcare services due to the international public health emergency related to the SARS-CoV-2.
Products Covered: HS Code(s): 2936, 2937, 3001, 3002, 3003, 3004, 3006 (medical devices)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply – MAPA, Brazil, following public consultations notified in G/TBT/N/BRA/895, has issued the Technical Regulation No. 18, 09 March 2020, published in the Official Gazette No. 055 on 20 March 2020, to inform the incorporation into domestic legislation of the Resolution MERCOSUR/GMC/RES. No. 61/19 (Mercosur Technical Regulation on minimum quality and identity requirements to be met by casein for human consumption) and repealing the Annex X of the Ordinance No. 146, 07 March, 1996. This technical regulation is effective 1 April 2020. The full text in Portuguese is available for consultation at:
Distribution date: 30 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025
Products Covered: HS 350110 Casein
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
Revision of the Standards and Specifications for Foods and Food Additives under the Food Sanitation Act (revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)
Distribution date: 31 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025
Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical Veterinary drug: Xylazine
Products Covered: -Meat and edible meat offal (HS codes: 02.01, 02.02, 02.04, 02.05, 02.06 and 02.08) -Dairy produce (HS code: 04.01) -Animal originated products (HS code: 05.04)-Animal fats and oils (HS codes: 15.02 and 15.06)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Revision of the Standards and Specifications for Foods and Food Additives under the Food Sanitation Act (revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)
Distribution date: 31 March 2020 | Final date for Comment: 30 May 2020
Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical Pesticide: Pyridalyl
Products Covered: -Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates (HS codes: 03.02, 03.03, 03.04, 03.06, 03.07 and 03.08) -Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS codes: 07.01, 07.02, 07.03, 07.04, 07.05, 07.06, 07.07, 07.08, 07.09, 07.10, 07.13 and 07.14) -Edible fruit (HS codes: 08.07, 08.10 and 08.11) -Mate and spices (HS codes: 09.03 and 09.10) -Cereals (HS codes: 10.05 and 10.08)-Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit (HS codes: 12.01 and 12.12)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
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