Ordinance that regulates the Brazil nut chain will be updated

Published 2024년 4월 11일

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A collaborative effort is underway to update the 1976 Ordinance Mapa No. 846, which governs the classification and standardization of Brazil nuts, an essential source of income for communities in the Amazon region engaged in extractivism. This initiative, led by the Observatório da Castanha-da-Amazônia (OCA) network and involving stakeholders such as Embrapa, Unir, Mapa, MDA, Ecoporé, GIZ, companies, and civil society organizations, aims to revise the ordinance to better reflect the current realities of the Brazil nut market. The process, scheduled from April to July, will include thematic meetings and field visits to discuss updates on concepts, classification parameters, and labeling, with the goal of simplifying the standard and encouraging self-regulation within the industry.

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Institutions linked to the Brazil nut production chain, also known as Brazil nut and Amazon nut, began working together to support the updating of Ordinance Mapa No. 846 of 1976. The document regulates 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 the group's first ...

Source: Embrapa