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LATU and the Congress of Intendents forge a key alliance to modernize food safety controls across Uruguay
In a new sign of coordination between LATU, public agencies, and the Congress of Intendants, a framework cooperation agreement was signed to strengthen food safety procedures throughout the country.
The agreement was signed during the Congress of Intendants meeting held in Salto, where LATU President Lucila Arboleya and Board Member Rossanna González presented the institution’s technical capabilities and its potential as a strategic partner for territorial development to the departmental governments.
This is a framework cooperation agreement between LATU and the Congress of Intendants aimed at establishing a joint working framework to strengthen food safety procedures at the national level, in connection with the National Unified Registry of Food Products, Companies, and Vehicles.
The RUNAEV is a system operating under the authority of the Congress of Intendants that standardizes the food safety procedures of the nineteen departmental governments for the authorization of premises, products, and vehicles. Through the agreement signed with LATU, both parties will be able to carry out activities such as technical advisory services, risk management support, analytical services, and participation in technical forums, among other forms of collaboration to be defined in supplementary agreements and specific arrangements to be signed within the framework of this instrument.
The agreement also leaves open the possibility of expanding cooperation to other areas of common interest, such as productive development, to be defined by mutual agreement.
The signing took place during the visit by Arboleya and González to the Congress of Intendants, gathered in Salto, where they presented the proposal of LATU and its foundation, Latitud, to departmental governments. The event sought to position LATU as a strategic ally of the departmental governments in the fields of technology, sustainability, innovation, and territorial productive development.
LATU has been strengthening its presence in the western region of the country through concrete projects in Artigas, Salto, and Paysandú, focused on areas such as citrus, wool, olive oil, hemp, digital transformation, and trade, as well as other areas for the rest of the country.
Through the LATU Uruguay program, the institution now has regional representatives throughout the country and offices in Salto, Rivera, Fray Bentos, and Colonia, under a proximity-based approach aimed at enabling companies and departmental governments in the interior of the country to access applied technology and innovation without needing to travel to Montevideo.
