Overview
- The executive sent a repeal bill that entered the Senate on Saturday and the text is signed by President Javier Milei, Chief of Cabinet Manuel Adorni and Health Minister Mario Lugones.
- The proposal seeks full annulment of Law No. 27.642, removing black octagonal warning labels and the law’s advertising, school and child-targeting restrictions.
- The government argues the law’s binary nutrient-profile model creates inconsistent results, fails to reward partial product reformulation and embeds technical rules in statute that limit agility.
- Officials say mandatory nutrition declarations of energy, sugars, fats and sodium will remain under the Argentine Food Code and Mercosur rules even if the law is repealed.
- Health groups, consumer organizations and medical societies warned the change would roll back a measure that began to shift consumer choices and spur reformulation, while industry and regional-trade advocates welcomed the review as easing costs for producers and small businesses.