Overview
- Mexico’s Supreme Court approved Minister Yasmín Esquivel Mossa’s opinion resolving a contradiction of criteria and affirmed that schools may pursue provisional suspensions via amparo.
- Schools within the National Education System can seek temporary relief if they demonstrate direct harm from the rules restricting preparation, sale and distribution of processed foods on campus.
- The justices emphasized the ruling does not authorize sales or advertising of ultraprocessed products and does not rule on the constitutionality of the regulations.
- Public‑health advocates report that few challenges have yielded definitive suspensions to date, though they anticipate a wave of new amparos from schools and food producers.
- The SEP’s guidelines, published in the Diario Oficial and in force in 2025 with sanctions for noncompliance, have been contested by institutions including Cinvestav, UVM and Universidad Iberoamericana.