Brazil nut: Ordinance regulating the chain will be updated

Institutions linked to the Brazil nut production chain, also known as Brazil nut and Amazon nut, began working together to support the updating of Ministry of Agriculture ordinance No. 846 of 1976. The document regulates the classification and standardization of the product, an important source of income for populations in the Amazon region who live from extractivism. Thematic meetings and field visits will be held, from April to July, to discuss each chapter of the ordinance and verify production chain practices. The following will be discussed: concepts, classification parameters and tolerances, marking and labeling, among other points. “Given the complexity of the production chain and the significance of the various devices that regulate the standardization of a product, our intention is to gradually build a proposal, with the active collaboration of everyone involved”, declared André Machado, from the Executive Secretariat of the Observatório da Castanha-da-Amazônia (OCA), at ...