Members of 7 organizations of businessmen and producers of Panama requested the National Assembly to suspend the discussion of Bill 265 “Law of Frontal Labeling of Nutritional Warning”, since Panama as a signatory of the Central American Economic Integration Subsystem (SIECA) is currently participating in the discussion of the Central American Technical Regulations (RTCA) on this matter.
Nutrition specialists have defended the continuation of the discussion of Bill 265, after hearing the request of businessmen to stop the bill, which would oblige imported and local food products to detail their nutritional information on the front of the packages.
The argument of the businessmen is that the norm cannot be implemented in the country because Panama is still in arrears with the rest of Central American countries in terms of establishing a general labeling technical regulation.
The subcommittee of Labor, Health and Social Development met to study the bill 265 on front nutritional warning labeling, proposed by Congresswoman Yaidelis González.
The purpose of the initiative is to implement and regulate the front nutritional warning labeling on the containers and/or packaging of pre-packaged processed food products for human consumption, in order to protect the health and welfare of the population in Panama.
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