Chile: Bill regulating the Foodtech industry returns to committee

Published Sep 13, 2024

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The Chilean Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill regulating Foodtech companies, which use IoT, big data, and AI in food production. The bill also aims to establish equal competition between animal and plant-based food products. The bill defines and prohibits the advertising of simulated food as animal-derived and mandates the reporting of quality on the labels of such food products. The bill will now return to the Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources for a second report.

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The Chamber of Deputies approved in general – by 77 votes in favor, 54 against and 3 abstentions – the bill (bulletin 16131) that regulates Foodtech companies. However, as it is subject to amendments, the proposal will return to the Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources for a second report. Foodtech companies are companies that use technologies such as the “Internet of Things” (IoT), big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to produce a series of food products. The core or fundamental idea of the bill is to create a regulation of this industry. Along with this, to establish a statute of free competition between foods of animal origin and those foods of plant origin, when the latter imitate the properties of the former. The project had its origin in a motion authored by deputy Harry Jürgensen (IND). It was also signed by Miguel Ángel Calisto (IND-DEM), Felipe Camaño (IND), Felipe Donoso (UDI), Daniel Lilayu (UDI), Benjamin Moreno (PREP), Gloria Naveillan (IND), Emilia ...

Source: Agromeat