This will be the ultimate front label for ultra-processed foods

The Ministry of Health and Social Protection informed, this Tuesday, December 13, that the Resolution 2492 regulation of Law 2120, with which it firmly establishes the front end labelingtivo for ultra-processed foods of the so-called ‘Junk Food Law’.

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so announced the Minister of Health, Carolina Corcho, who assured that the rulings of the high courts were complied with and the warning stamps that products with components harmful to health must bear were established.

Through a video, the head of the portfolio said that they also attended to the ruling of the Council of State, which regulates and recognizes as a rule the octagon seal with black background.

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In addition, in these notices that must have the foods that are marketed in the country, the definitive use of the word will have to be applied. ‘Excess in’, and the name of the Ministry of Health in the lower part of the stamps.

According to Corcho, the objective is that these decisions that are adopted have a positive impact on the nutrition of citizens, boys and girls, that they will be able to see the warning on the products, “and take care of their diet in a healthy way”.

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The minister finished her intervention in the graphic piece, assuring that the Ministry of Health is “complying with the commitments, rulings and laws of the Republic“.

These changes and the decisions around the call ‘Junk food law’ they had been urged in days past from different fronts, since the time limit established by the rulings for the modification of this Resolution was close to expiration.

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TIME