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The National Drug Administration, Food and Medical Technology (Anmat) prohibited the production, fractionation and marketing throughout the country of an extra virgin olive oil. It is the Chango brand product, made in the Rioja city of Chilecito, and the restriction arises from the fact that “it lacks health records and is falsely labeled.”
The measure was reflected in the provision 5224/2024 published this Wednesday in the Official bulletin, where the agency dependent on the Ministry of Health specified that the decision aims to “protect the health of citizens against the consumption of illegal products”.
“When it comes to food products that lack registration, which is why their traceability, their production conditions, their quality with adequate levels of control under the conditions established by current regulations and their safety cannot be guaranteed, the Department of the Rectorate of Food Regulations of the INAL recommends prohibiting the production, fractionation and marketing of the aforementioned food throughout the national territory,” the text indicates.
In this sense, since it is a product that “cannot be reliably and clearly identified as produced, processed and/or divided in a specific establishment,” Anmat established that “it cannot be made anywhere in the country, neither marketed nor sold in the territory of the Argentine Republic.” The resolution falls on “any presentation, batch and expiration date” of the oil in question because the data presented corresponds to an establishment not authorized for its production.
Faced with this, “the marketing throughout the national territory of any product that displays the RNPA health registration No. 1200612 on its label is prohibited, as it is a falsely labeled product that uses a non-existent RNPA number”
Furthermore, “because the product is advertised and promoted on online sales platforms, the Program for Monitoring and Supervision of Advertising and Promotion of Products Subject to Foreign Trade was requested to evaluate the measures to be adopted.”
THE NATION
