The Local Committee of Supply and Production (CLAP in Spanish) requires that businesses sell them products to be redistributed to citizens through its ongoing food and goods distribution program, it was announced Thursday, October 13.

Food, personal hygiene and household cleaners are specifically subject to the new law.

The companies reportedly effected include "commercial companies," mills, factories agriculture and farms, manufacturing plants, processing plants and industrial slaughterhouses, an announcement said.

CLAP has been for some time the government's strategy for selling regulated products directly to Venezuelan households affected by the so-called "economic war."

As of late, many food banks have been struggling to deliver the promised amount of goods to Venezuelans. Areas known to be dominated by government opposition have reportedly felt the blunt of this struggle, complaining that they are sometimes completely excluded, or that members of the ruling PSUV Party receive preference.