S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 A bill in the Lower House aims to oblige food producers to place a message on the label of their products informing that they contain pork in their ingredients. The bill was developed by representative Lincoln Portela and, he explained, in an interview to ANBA, that the decision was taken due to health and religious matters. The objective is to simplify the life of those who, for example, are allergic to pork or whose religion does not allow them to consume pork.<\/p>\n
Among those to whom consumption of pork is restricted, the politician mentioned the Muslims, Jews and some Christians, like the Adventists. \u201cWe must respect people\u2019s religious and health matters,\u201d said Lincoln, who is Baptist. \u201cAs religious liberty is included in our Constitution, it is also important for us to concern ourselves with those who, due to faith, decided not to ingest pork or its products,\u201d says the bill. <\/p>\n
Brazil houses a great Muslim community, mainly due to Arab immigration, very strong in the country. Brazilian industry, in fact, exports halal food, produced according to Muslim regulations, to the Arab world. According to Lincoln, the project does not, however, forecast that the warning also be included on export products. \u201cIt is not contemplated in the project, but that is a good suggestion,\u201d said Lincoln, who says he is concerned with consumption. \u201cPeople need to know what they are eating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The bill is numbered 767\/11 and was presented by the congressman in March this year. It has already been approved by the Consumer Protection council and should now go to the Constitution and Justice Commission in the Lower House. If approved, it should not require approval on the plenary but should go straight to the Senate for later approval by the Executive Power. The proposal forecasts penalties to those who do not comply with the law, including a fine, confiscation of the product and repealing of the registration for operation.<\/p>\n
*Translated by Mark Ament<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A bill in the Lower House calls for identification when food contains pork among its ingredients. The idea is to simplify the life of Muslims and Jews, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"A bill in the Lower House calls for identification when food contains pork among its ingredients. The idea is to simplify the life of Muslims and Jews, among others.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}