In an effort to curb child obesity, in mid-2016 the Nutritional Composition of Food Law (Law No. 20.606) went into effect in Chile.

With the advances in technology, it has become routine for advertisers to keep track and record the behavior of individuals online to better know their habits and the effectiveness of advertisement.

The final chapter of what started with the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act of 2011 in Australia remains to be seen, with a complaint presented by Ukraine, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Cuba and Indonesia before an arbitration panel at the WTO still pending.

A much awaited update on our Data Protection Law is currently being discussed in Chilean Congress.

Through this supreme decree, the Ministry of Health has modified several provisions regarding the commercialization of pharmaceutical products contained in various normative bodies...

Recently the "guideline for the supervision and regulation of the nutritional composition of foodstuff and its advertisement ("the guideline") was published by the Undersecretary of Health.

On December 11th, Decree No. 1 of the Ministry of Health (herein, the "Decree") was published on the Official Gazette.

On November 13th, 2015, Law N°20,869 on Food Products Advertisement "Advertisement Law") was published in the Official Gazette.

In the last few weeks, the Ministry of Health solicited public comments on three proposals which would amend relevant regulations in connection to foodstuff products, as detailed below ...

Medical devices are any instrument, apparatus, application, material or article, including software, used by themselves or in tandem, and defined by the manufacturer to be used directly on human beings.

Este busca que las empresas provean un contrato donde los consumidores permltan la recepci6n de publicidad directa;

Decree N°13 is the long awaited regulation of Law N°20,606 on the Nutritional Composition of Foodstuff and its Advertisement.

On June 2, 2014, President Michelle Bachelet presented to Congress a bill to modify Law N° 19,496 on the Protection of the Rights of Consumers ("CPA") –Bulletin N° 9369-03.