Mapa raises percentage of fat in hamburger production in Brazil

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa) published, this Monday (26), Ordinance No. 724, which brings the new Technical Regulation of Identity and Quality for hamburgers produced in establishments under the Federal Inspection Service (SIF) , such as refrigerators. The establishments will have a period of one year to adapt to the norms. The measure raises from 23% to 25% the maximum percentage of fat in these products. The new regulation does not apply to the hamburger produced in butchers, supermarkets and establishments registered in other spheres of inspection, such as state and municipal inspection services that are not yet part of the Brazilian System of Inspection of Products of Animal Origin (SISBI). The hamburger is an industrialized meat product obtained from the ground meat of butchery animals, with or without the addition of adipose tissue and ingredients, molded into a disc or oval shape, and subjected to an appropriate technological process. Among the ...