Chile SAG Resolución 6.905 EXENTA (2022) — Contaminant limits for dog/cat food
Primary source: *Resolución 6.905 EXENTA*, SAG, dated Santiago, 25 de noviembre de 2022, published 14/12/2022. It establishes maximum contaminant limits for complete foods, supplements, additives and ingredients intended for feeding dogs and cats, and derogates Resolución N° 7.885 EXENTA, de 2017.
Operative framework (verbatim / C1)
- ES — Título: *"ESTABLECE LÍMITES MÁXIMOS DE CONTAMINANTES EN ALIMENTOS COMPLETOS, SUPLEMENTOS, ADITIVOS E INGREDIENTES DESTINADOS A LA ALIMENTACIÓN DE PERROS Y GATOS Y DEROGA RESOLUCIÓN N° 7.885 EXENTA, DE 2017"*
- EN — Title: Establishes maximum contaminant limits in complete foods, supplements, additives and ingredients intended for feeding dogs and cats, and derogates Resolution N° 7.885 EXENTA, of 2017.
- ES — Resuelvo 1: *"Establécese los siguientes límites máximos de contaminantes en alimentos completos, suplementos, aditivos e ingredientes destinados a la alimentación de perros y gatos"* — three families are set:
- 1. Contaminación microbiológica — maximum microbiological contamination limits for dog/cat feeding.
- 2. Contaminación química — subdivided into micotoxinas (mycotoxins), metales pesados (heavy metals), and Melamina (melamine).
- ES — Esterilización húmeda: hermetically sealed sterilized wet complete foods/pet supplements *"deberán haber sido sometidos a una temperatura tal, de manera que se alcance un F0 ≥ 3"*, to guarantee absence of *Clostridium sp.*
- ES — Base legal: issued under *decreto supremo N° 4, de 2016* (Reglamento de Alimentos para Animales), whose Art. 49° authorises SAG to set the list of contaminants, maximum permitted limits and analytical techniques by food category.
Why this matters
Res 6.905/2022 is Chile's current positive contaminant-limit regime for pet foods (replacing the 2017 Res 7.885). It sits alongside the import-health base framework (Res 1.233/2013) and the MBM derogation (Res 4.266/2013) as one of three core SAG pet-food resolutions.
Honest gap — numeric tables are image-only
The specific numeric limits (microbiological n/m/M sampling-plan values; mycotoxin, heavy-metal and melamine maximum levels) are published in the official source as six embedded images, not as machine-extractable text: sag_res7885_2022_img_microbiologia.jpeg, ..._micotoxinas.jpeg, ..._arsenico.jpeg, ..._cadmio.jpeg, ..._plomo_mercurio.jpeg, ..._melamina.jpeg. Because C1 requires verbatim substring match against landed text, the numeric values are recorded here as an honest gap pending OCR/structured extraction of those figures; this topic asserts only the textual framework above.