Order SVS/MS No. 28 approving the use of additives in foodstuff with Complementary Nutrition Information and Food for Special Purposes. Country/Territory Brazil Document type Regulation Date 1998 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Food quality control/food safety Food additives Procedural matters Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Consumer protection MRL-maximum residue limit Nutrition 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 use of additives in foodstuff with Complementary Nutrition Information and Food for Special Purposes. It establishes that foodstuff, whose energy value and/or nutrient contents have been altered in order to comply with the parameters of the Technical Regulations on Complementary Nutrition Information and Food for Special Purposes, may use food additives having the same functions and the same maximum limits laid down for the corresponding conventional food. The use of additives not provided for in the similar conventional food, or at an unauthorized limit, is permitted where justified by the technological need arising from the total or partial replacement of the ingredients. Full text Portuguese Website portal.anvisa.gov.br