The new Law for the Promotion of Healthy Eating (Law 27.642) enacted in Argentina contains provisions that imply a direct restriction on the exercise of the right to use duly registered trademarks, mainly based on the protection of consumer health. This question generates a clear tension between these rights, whose analysis is very useful in order to provide clarity to the panorama resulting from the enactment of the Law, a panorama that has great implications for the commercial activity carried out in our country by companies associated with the food industry. The present work will analyze the regulatory conflict raised and will seek to answer how it should be resolved according to the current laws, doctrine and jurisprudence in Argentina and in the international framework.
Day: 05/02/2024
Paraguay – Draft Resolution Requirements and sanitary conditions for the commercialization of poultry meat products
The National Institute of Food and Nutrition (INAN in Spanish) has published the Draft Resolution of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare on the requirements and sanitary conditions for the commercialization of meat products of poultry origin.
Paraguay – INAN confirms food and raw material import requirements are in force
The National Institute of Food and Nutrition (INAN in Spanish) communicates that Resolution S.G. No. 336/2020 is still in force. “Whereby requirements and conditions are established for the registration of food ingredients and raw materials to be imported directly by food industries for their own use”.
The application for registration of food ingredients and raw materials is available in the institutional computer system (SIGRA in Spanish).
Argentina – Updated fees for procedures related to food and supplements
The National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT in Spanish), by means of Disposition 25/2024, updated the amounts of the fees that will accrue for procedures related to food products, dietary supplements, food for specific medical purposes, establishments, packaging, import/export, laboratory analysis, authentications and federal network of laboratories.
Ecaudor – INEN publishes draft standard on Chocolates and Chocolate Products
The Ecuadorian Standardization Service (INEN in Spanish) has published NTE INEN 539 (2R) – Chocolates and chocolate products determination of non-fat milk solids by calculation. This standard describes the indirect measurement method to determine by calculation the content of non-fat milk solids in milk chocolate or milk chocolate products.
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