{"topic_id":"BR_ingredient_safety_ADM","category":"brazil","context":"Brazil's feed-ingredient and product framework is administered by MAPA (Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock) under Decree 12031 (May 28, 2024), which modernized inspection and mandatory oversight of animal food and feed from production to commercialization and changed both product and plant registration processes (USDA GAIN BR2026-0001). MAPA classifies animal feed products into nine categories (Appendix 1 definitions): 1 Additive; 2 Ingredient (component of plant, animal or mineral origin used in feed, with or without nutritional value); 3 Feed (ready-to-use complete mixture for production animals); 4 Food (ingredients/raw materials plus additives intended exclusively for COMPANION ANIMALS, fully meeting their nutritional requirements, possibly with specific or functional properties); 5 Supplement; 6 Premix; 7 Nucleus (premix with macrominerals); 8 Concentrate; 9 Chewable (animal by-product based amusement product for companion animals, negligible nutritional value). Under DIPOA/MAPA Circular Letter 12/2025 (July 7, 2025, updated December 1), foreign establishment plant registration runs government-to-government while producers register their own products on the PGA-SIGSIF platform, which replaces the old SIPEAGRO system (SIPEAGRO registrations remain valid five years from July 8, 2025); products cannot be shipped until BOTH plant and label registration are confirmed by Brazil. Earlier claims in this topic — a 'Lista de Ingredientes (updated 2024)', year-specific prohibited-ingredient bans (BHA/BHT 2013, ethoxyquin 2007, propylene glycol 2006, melamine 2008), and 'ANVISA RDC 26/2015' inclusion-rate limits (premix max 0.5%, antioxidants max 0.02% of fat) — have no support in project sources; neither USDA Brazil report mentions ANVISA or RDC 26/2015 in the animal-feed context (registration runs through MAPA, not ANVISA), and all such claims were removed.\n","sources":["pdf-raw/BR2026-0001_brazil_animal_feed_registration.txt (Decree 12031/2024; Circular Letter 12/2025 DIPOA/MAPA; PGA-SIGSIF; Appendix 1 nine product categories)"],"tokens_estimated":275,"generated_at":"2026-07-19","tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}