The Ministry of People's Power for Health published Resolution N°137/2021 which establishes the requirements for the labeling of foods for human consumption that contain sugar, saturated fats and trans fats.
This resolution complement the FOP labelling for sodium approved in 2021 and that will be effective in January 2023.
Some highlight from this resolution:
- Products exceeding the nutrient profiles for sugar, saturated fats and/or trans fats shall bear a black and white octagon with the warning stamen ?HIGH IN? for such nutrients (see the image below) on the main panel of the package.
- Nutrients profiles are based on 100 mg or 100 ml, as follows:
- The Resolution foresees the technical requirements such as dimensions and proportions of the seals.
- Stickers will be allowed only in the case of imported products. However, the resolution that imported products already bearing a label with warnings in Spanish about the high content of sugar, saturated fats and trans fats will be not required to use stickers to adapt their labels. Thus, it seems Venezuela would recognise other countries' FOP labelling based on warning statements, at least for the three critical nutrients covered by this resolution.
These FOP labelling requirements will be effective on 7 December 2024.
It is worth mentioning that no notification was made by the Venezuelan government, to the WTO, nor any publication on the official website of the Ministry of Health or the SARCS (the sanitary authority). The same thing happened with the resolution for the FOP labelling of sodium in 2020.
This way, the map for the FOP labelling approved in the region results in the following:
Reach out to us to know more about the FOP labelling regulation across Latin America and the Caribbean.
14 January, 2022
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