{"title":"The Mexican Front-of-Pack Labeling Reform: Is It Compatible with International Trade Law?","authors":"A. Bahri, Ana Sofia Charvel","doi":"10.1163/22119000-12340208","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\nMexico has by far the world’s highest death rate linked to obesity and other chronic diseases. As a response to the growing pandemic of obesity, Mexico has adopted a new compulsory front-of-pack labeling regulation for pre-packaged foods and non-alcoholic beverages. This article provides an assessment of the regulation’s consistency with international trade law and the arguments that might be invoked by either side in a hypothetical trade dispute on this matter.","PeriodicalId":163787,"journal":{"name":"The journal of world investment and trade","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The journal of world investment and trade","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22119000-12340208","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mexico has by far the world’s highest death rate linked to obesity and other chronic diseases. As a response to the growing pandemic of obesity, Mexico has adopted a new compulsory front-of-pack labeling regulation for pre-packaged foods and non-alcoholic beverages. This article provides an assessment of the regulation’s consistency with international trade law and the arguments that might be invoked by either side in a hypothetical trade dispute on this matter.