Uruguay – Bill on digital front-of-package food labeling advances in parliament

Congressmen in the national Parliament approved the bill that requires digital front labeling (QR codes or bar codes) of food. The initiative now passes to the Senate.

As explained by the deputy of the Colorado Party, Martín Melazzi “Basically, it is to incorporate digital front labeling to consumer products, which currently already have it. These are the well-known QR codes or bar codes, all the information that consumers need today”.