Front-of-Pack Food Labelling and Legal Iconography: An Example of Legal Transplant and the New Latin American Paradigm

• Autor: Ferrante, Alfredo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/24467
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/24467
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Front-of-pack-labelling; Food labelling; Comparative law; Comparative methodology; Legal transplant; Formante; Right to information; Consumer; Etiquetado; Alimentos; Derecho comparado; Metodología comparada; Trasplante; Derecho a la información; Consumidor

This paper analyzes the front-of-pack food labelling, with particular attention to Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian regulations (also de lege ferenda regulations). The aim is to contribute to a better understanding and use a comparative methodology, in particular of the figure of the legal transplant. In that sense, a concrete example of operability (not necessarily achieved) of a transplant is provided. The work also shows that the analyzedlegislations are far from European models and take Latin American standards as a reference, contributing to a paradigm shift in relation to the traditionalinfluence of foreign regulations that is usually incorporated into Latin American national systems.