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Infant Nutrition. Manufacture and disposal of infant food

Type Class Valid From Valid To
SPS Goods 17/09/2020
Summary:

A person cannot manufacture, sell, or otherwise manage infant food or dairy products that are unsafe for infants, and the Minister must create policies to support breastfeeding in line with international standards.

Description:

Manufacture and disposal of infant food

50.

(1) A person may not manufacture, prepare, sell, import, export, transmit, exchange, donate or dispose of infant food or dairy products which is unfit for consumption by infants. 

(2) In order to promote breastfeeding in accordance with the “International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes”, the Minister must adopt or develop appropriate policies and guidelines.

Commodities Affected by the Measure

# HS Code Description
1 04.01 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
2 04.02 Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
3 04.04 Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, not elsewhere specified or included:
4 19.01 , Malt Extract not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 per cent by mass of cocoa calculated on a totally
5 20.05 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen (excluding products of heading 20.06):
6 21.06 food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

Procedures Implementing the Measure

No procedures found under this measure.

Legal Documents Related to the Measure

Name Type Category
Public and Environmental Health Act 1 of 2015 Act SPS