Marketing (Breast-Milk Substitutes) Act. Country/Territory Nigeria Document type Legislation Date 1990 (2013) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn 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. Full text English Website www.placng.org