Health Ministry Now Requires Sanitary License to Sell Used Clothing

Published on Honduras Daily · Aug 9, 2026 · Originally reported August 8, 2026 by Once Noticias

Honduras's Health Ministry now requires used-clothing sellers to obtain a sanitary license, a mandate traders say costs about 21,000 lempiras (roughly $840) and must be met within three days, alarming small vendors who previously faced no such rule.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Once Noticias, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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