The National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (Confiep in Spanish) has sent a notarized letter to the Minister of Health, César Vásquez, to demand compliance with the current legal regulations that establish, among other things, that the manufacture of industrially processed food intended for human consumption is only carried out in establishments that have the current sanitary authorization granted by the respective national sanitary authority.

In this sense, according to the business association, the Health Sector should refrain from requiring sanitary registrations to extend industrially manufactured food and beverages of national or foreign production, since such measure is not covered by the General Health Law.