This Board Resolution approves the Technical Regulation of Hygienic-Sanitary Procedures for Handling Foods and Beverages Prepared with Vegetables. This Resolution may be supplemented by state, district and municipal health surveillance agencies to address requirements related to local realities and to improve hygienic and sanitary conditions of food markets and health services. The food markets and food services have the term of 180 days from the date of the publication of this Resolution to comply with the provisions laid down in the Annex. Its purpose is to establish hygienic-sanitary procedures for the preparation, packaging, storage, transport, distribution and commercialization of food and beverages prepared with vegetables, in order to prevent food-borne diseases. It applies to food marketing units and food services that carry out some of the following activities: preparation, packaging, storage, transportation, distribution and marketing of food and beverages prepared with vegetables, such as snack bars, kiosks, stalls, hawkers and the like. This Regulation does not apply to food and beverages prepared from vegetables subject to heat treatment.
Brésil · 2005-07-29