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Marketing (Breast-Milk Substitutes) Act.

Country/Territory
Nigeria
Document type
Legislation
Date
1990 (2013)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to provide for the control of the importation, sale, advertisement, distribution, or offer as sample or gift of breast-milk substitutes or infant formula to members of the public.
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Breastfeeding/infant food Registration International trade Internal trade Authorization/permit Packaging/labelling Offences/penalties Nutrition
Geographical area
Africa, North Atlantic, Western Africa
Abstract

This Act provides for the control of the importation and placing on the market of breast-milk substitute or infant formula (as defined). No person shall import, sell, display for sale, promote the sale of, distribute or offer as sample or gift to any person or the general public, any breast-milk substitute or infant formula, unless such products have first been registered with the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control. Products shall be subjected to sampling and analysis by manufacturers or distributors. The Act prescribes also rules relative to the labelling of the products to which it applies and requires every governmental, non-governmental or private institution or organisation engaged directly or indirectly in health care delivery to take such measures as may encourage, promote and protect breast-feeding.

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