El deber de advertencia en las relaciones de consumo de productos comestibles envasados en el ordenamiento jurídico chileno

The present research examines the nutritional warning duty established in the regulation of food labeling and marketing in Chile. The working hypothesis is the following: the current configuration of the duty of nutritional warning goes beyond the protection of consumers in their legal relationship with suppliers and distances itself from the category established in Law 19.496, since it has a different purpose, that of guiding consumers in their nutritional choices. The text explains the purpose, content and legal consequences of the obligation to provide nutritional information. It concludes that, in its present form, it is possible to achieve the objectives of public health and the protection of the right to adequate food, so that, in case of violation, the intervention of the health sanction system is preferable to that of the consumer law.