The Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP in Spanish), made through a statement the request to shelve the law under study with which they wanted to label some products with a black seal, known as Front Labeling Law.

According to the statement published in social networks: “The Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP) on behalf of the thousands of jobs generated by the private sector in the food and beverage sector asked the National Congress to shelve the proposed front labeling law which was read in first reading last Thursday”.

They also added that: “COHEP’s request is due to the fact that the proposal, presented by the Honorable Vice President of Congress, Kritza Perez, contradicts everything indicated in the Central American technical regulations approved by Honduras within the framework of the Central American Integration System”.

Alejandro Bongiovanni and Daiana Fernández Molero, members of the Republican Proposal party (PRO in Spanish), are promoting a bill in Congress to repeal the Law for the Promotion of Healthy Food – Front Labeling Regime Law No. 27.642. For the deputies, the legislation passed in December 2021, “has served only to confuse consumers and hinder the international trade of Argentine products.
The project consists of three articles and aims at “restoring the freedom of food producers and consumers, through the repeal of the Front Labeling Regime Law No. 27,642, whose objectives are met more effectively with the regulations already in force in the Food Code in relation to labeling, marketing and information”.

The Court rejected a corporate lawsuit and upheld the Front Labeling law. The ruling of the Federal Contentious Administrative Judge Santiago Carrillo did not uphold a class action brought against the Front Labeling Law 27.642 and its regulatory decree that promotes healthy eating by means of warning seals.

The lawsuit had been filed by the Argentine Chamber of the Industry of Sausages and Allied Products (CAICHA) against the National Government and the Executive Power, in order to declare the unconstitutionality of Law 27,642, Decree 151/2022 and other regulatory rules.