The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) submitted to public consultation a proposal to update the Brazilian National Plan for the Control of Residues and Contaminants for animal products (PNCRC/Animal, in the Portuguese acronym).
The Secretariat of Agricultural Defense (SDA) at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) launched, through Ordinance n.º 504/2021, a public consultation on the revision of the Brazilian National Plan for the Control of Residues and Contaminants for animal products (PNCRC/Animal, in the Portuguese acronym), currently provided by SDA Normative Instruction n.º 42/1999, which the proposal intends to revoke.
The ministry’s PNCRC program is the regulatory framework through which establishments that produce animal products (e.g., beef, milk, eggs, honey, and fish) are monitored for chemical residuals, such as contaminants (which are not intentionally added) and pharmaceutic products. It is designed to oversee the entire supply chain of such products, including imports. The establishments monitored through PNCRC/Animal are also supervised by the Federal Inspection Service (SIF, in the Portuguese acronym).
The proposal is available in the Annex of the aforementioned ordinance. The fourth article of the proposal establishes different modes of oversight, including a monitoring subprogram, an inquiring subprogram, and a monitoring program for imported goods. Article 13 of the proposals determines that MAPA must maintain a list of detected violations under the inquiring subprogram on its website, including the rural establishment of origin, the products in violation, and the violating substances and their concentration in the sample.
Contributions may be submitted through SDA’s normative acts monitoring system (SISMAN) until March 1. Note: registration at SISMAN, via the SOLICITA system, is necessary to submit contributions. However, it requires a Brazilian Individual Taxpayers Registry (CPF).
