The Health Commission of the National Congress, with the accompaniment of the Health Regulation Agency (ARSA in Spanish), continued this Tuesday the socialization of the Front Labeling Bill with representatives of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP in Spanish), the National Association of Industrialists (ANDI in Spanish) and companies producing packaged foods.

The president of the Commission, congressman Wilfredo Sabio, explained that the initiative seeks to strengthen public policies that allow the population to have access to clear information on the critical nutritional content of such foods.

To this end, it is necessary to place warning octagons on the labeling of certain packaged products, a labeling system that clearly, simply and visibly indicates when a product contains excess nutrients such as sugar, sodium, saturated fats or sweeteners, among others.

Sabio emphasized that, although the private sector has raised the importance of harmonizing the regulations with regional legislative policies, together with ARSA it has been possible to demonstrate that the proposal does not contravene any Central American technical regulation, which allows the project to move forward at the national level.