Order SVS/MS No. 1.004 approving the Technical Regulation on Additives and their Maximum Limits of Use for Category 8 - Meat and Meat Products. Country/Territory Brazil Document type Regulation Date 1998 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Food quality control/food safety Meat Food additives Procedural matters Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Consumer protection MRL-maximum residue limit Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Entry into force notes This Order enters into force on the day of its publication. Abstract This Order approves the Technical Regulation on Additives and their Maximum Limits of Use for Category 8 - Meat and Meat Products. The Regulation lays down a list of authorized additives for being used in meat and meat products according to their different use: a) with the maximum permissible employment limits, b) mixture of additives having the same function, provided that the sum of all the limits does not exceed the maximum limit of any of them, c) similar criterion is applied as in b) for the particular case of phosphates and derivatives that fulfill or do not equal functions. Full text Portuguese Website portal.anvisa.gov.br References - Legislation Implemented by Board Resolution RDC No. 179 regulating the use of INS 451i Sodium Tripolyphricate and INS 466 Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose Additives as stabilizers in meat products. Legislation | Brazil | 2001 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Meat, Food additives, Procedural matters, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Consumer protection, MRL-maximum residue limit Source: FAO, FAOLEX