Milei Wants to Repeal the Front Labelling Act but Depends on Allies and Governors
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The Executive's bill entered the Senate, where the law was passed almost unanimously in 2020.The norm forced the food industries to place in their black octagon packages with warnings for excess critical nutrients.
The national government has sent a bill to Congress to repeal the Front-of-Package Labeling Law, the regulation that requires food companies to include black octagons on products with excessive amounts of sugar, fat, sodium, or calories. The initiative, which has been introduced in the Senate, proposes to nullify Law 27,642, passed in 2021 during the administration of Alberto Fernández. The law was championed by then-Senators Anabel Fernández Sa…
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The national government made progress with a project to repeal the Front Labelling Act and put forward a number of technical, economic and regulatory arguments with which it seeks to justify the elimination of one of the most debated health standards in recent years. Why the government wants to eliminate frontal labelling The initiative, sent...
The national government formalized the sending of a new package of laws to Congress and the first initiative to come to light points to the heart of the current food policy: it proposes the total repeal of Law 27.642, popularly known as the Front Labelling Law. The project, which formally entered to begin its debate in the Senate, carries the signatures of President Javier Milei, Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni and Health Minister Mario Lugones.
The Milei government sent the Congress of the Nation a bill to repeal the Healthy Food Promotion Act No. 27,642, popularly known as the Front Labelling Act. The bill entered the Senate this Saturday. The text bears the signatures of President Javier Milei, Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni, and Minister of Health Mario Lugones. The official text argues that the application of the current regulation, based on the parameters of the Pan American Health …
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