The Ministers of Education, Jaime Perczyk; and Health, Carla Vizzotti; They agreed with the Ministers of Education of the provinces to advance in the implementation in schools of the Law on Healthy Eating and Food Labeling, which provides for food education in school establishments.
During the 120th Assembly of the Federal Council of Education, in which the Minister of Health participated, Perczyk assured that the agreement with the provinces “It is very important because so that girls and boys can learn healthy eating habits in all schools.”
For her part, Minister Vizzotti thanked the two years of joint work during the pandemic, and stated: “We come on behalf of a huge group of people who worked on the Law for the Promotion of Healthy Food.”
He further highlighted that “one of its fundamental axes of the law is its articulation in healthy environments with schools”for which he recalled that the regulations “It’s not just the front labeling.”
The law encourages the population to adopt a healthy diet through the implementation of a Frontal Labeling of warnings, which is a graphic tool that allows consumers to have information that is simpler, clearer, more precise, not misleading and of spontaneous visibility or easily visible, in order to know what they are choosing to buy and consume.
In addition, it provides for the inclusion of nutritional food education in schools to contribute to the development of healthy eating habits and warn about the possible harmful effects of unhealthy eating.
Front labeling will be applied in a mandatory manner only to non-alcoholic foods and beverages that are sold packaged and that during their manufacturing process have added sugars, sodium, fats or ingredients that contain them, and that in the final composition the amounts of these nutrients critical are equal to or greater than the limits defined in the law.
Regarding its link with the school, the objective of the law is to promote healthy eating habits.
For this, the Federal Council of Education must promote the inclusion of didactic activities and policies that establish the minimum contents of nutritional food education in educational establishments at the initial, primary and secondary levels of the country, in order to contribute to the development of habits of healthy eating and warn about the harmful effects of improper eating.