The Congress of the Republic published this Wednesday, November 8, the Law 31919which modifies Law 30021, on the Promotion of healthy eating for children and adolescents, to allow the use of adhesive octagons on products manufactured or imported by mypes.
The device indicates that imported products and products manufactured by micro and small businesses (mypes), whose warnings are not printed on the labels, are allowed to be recorded, as appropriate, through the use of adhesives that are difficult to remove (adhesives).
These adhesives should not cover consumer information, and will be in line with the quality standards established by the National Quality Institute (Inacal) for said adhesives.
For all other products, advertising warnings are marked, as appropriate, indelibly on the labels and cannot be covered in whole or in part by any other element.
Inacal will develop the Peruvian technical standard for adhesives for the food industry that guarantees their difficult removal. The new technical standard will be issued within a period of two hundred and forty business days from the entry into force of this law, under responsibility.
The Ministry of Health, within a period of 90 calendar days from the entry into force of Law 31919, will adapt the Advertising Warning Manual, approved by Supreme Decree 012-2018-SA and will dictate the complementary regulations necessary for its compliance. .
Suppliers will adapt to the modification established in this law within a period of no more than 180 calendar days from the entry into force of the Peruvian technical standard for adhesives for the food industry issued by Inacal.
Source: Larepublica
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