Within the framework of the WHO’s Acceleration Plan for the Prevention of Obesity, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) facilitated spaces for dialogue and accompanied technical experts and key actors from various government sectors, international cooperation agencies and civil society in the search for consensus and actions to help strengthen regulatory policies that promote healthy eating in Peru.

Regarding Peruvian legislation, in 2013, Law No. 30021 on the promotion of healthy eating for children and adolescents (NNA) came into force, which includes the supervision of advertising, information and other practices related to food aimed at children and adolescents, to reduce and eliminate diseases related to overweight, obesity and other non-communicable diseases. However, in 2021 the Supreme Court declared that the technical parameters of the regulation of this law do not comply with WHO standards and ordered the Executive Branch to modify it. It also annulled the provision that exempted products such as breast milk substitutes, which must include advertising warnings.

Faced with these needs for action in governance for the good of children, PAHO has been accompanying the efforts of various sectors of the country to put on the agenda the revision of the regulation and thus have a stronger law, which reaches the regulation of labeling of infant formulas and proposes improvements for proper infant nutrition.