The norm, in detail
SENASA repeals two obsolete chapters of the 1968 inspection regulation
Res. SENASA 62/2026 (Official Gazette Jan 23, 2026)
in forceNATIONAL
Market deregulation
What changed and who it applies to
What changed
SENASA repeals two chapters of the Inspection Regulation for Products, By-products and Derivatives of Animal Origin (Decree 4.238 of 07/19/1968): Chapter XXIX 'On Advisory Services' (Art. 1) and Chapter XXXIII 'On Products from Family Farming' (Art. 2). Rationale: Chapter XXIX became obsolete due to technological advance (digital platforms that replace the print-media institutional communication mechanisms it regulated), and Chapter XXXIII, given the productive particularities of family farming, warranted separate treatment from the rest of the regulation's homogeneous sanitary criteria. verif · Jan 23, 2026 ↗
In force
Jan 24, 2026, the day after its publication in the Boletín Oficial (Jan 23, 2026), as the resolution itself sets out. verif · Jan 24, 2026 ↗
Who it affects
Establishments in the animal-origin products chain (meatpacking plants, meat and dairy industry) subject to the Inspection Regulation of Decree 4.238/68, and family-farming producers whose specific chapter is repealed (pending differentiated treatment). Modest direct material impact: it is regulatory cleanup of obsolete chapters, not a substantive easing of sanitary control. verif · Jan 23, 2026 ↗
The norm
Resolución 62/2026 of the Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria (SENASA), issued on Jan 22, 2026 and published in the Boletín Oficial on Jan 23, 2026 (notice 337675), in force from the day after publication. It repeals Chapters XXIX and XXXIII of Decreto 4.238/68. verif · Jan 23, 2026 ↗
Our reading
A signal that the regulatory-simplification agenda reaches concrete action in agriculture too (R-desregulación): SENASA prunes chapters of a 1968 regulation. Its value for the observatory is as evidence of continuity of the deregulatory program, not for its direct economic impact, which is limited. Worth watching whether it is the first of a series of larger prunings of Decree 4.238/68 with real effect on meatpacking plants. thesis
Where it lands, province by province
Applies the same nationwide
We looked at this rule from each of the five provinces we track and found no effect that lands differently in any of them: it applies the same across the country.
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