NAFDAC Food Fortification Regulations 2019
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
These regulations apply to all fortified foods manufactured, imported, exported, distributed, advertised, sold or used in Nigeria. The document emphasizes that no person can sell or advertise any food that is represented on the label to the general public as fortified with vitamins and minerals unless it is registered with the Agency, manufacture, import, export, advertise, sell, distribute, store or use any fortified food as treatment, preventive or curative for any of the diseases, disorders or abnormal physical states specified in schedule I to these regulations, sell or advertise any food to the general public as fortified with vitamins and minerals referred to in these regulations, if the Nutrient Reference Value (NRV) intake of that food by a person will result in the NRV by such a person of more than the number of vitamins and mineral nutrients specified in schedule II of these regulations and no food product for global listing for supermarket Items and Restaurant Operators, shall be allowed unless it complies with the provisions of these regulations or as prescribed by the Agency. The Nutrient Reference Values are covered in schedule II.
Process Flow
Department of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition ⬤
Office of the Director General NAFDAC ⬤
Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health ⬤
Office of the Minister of State for Health ⬤
Office of the Minister of Health ⬤
Federal Executive Council ⬤
NAFDAC Food Fortification Regulations 2019 Current Version
January 2022
These regulations apply to all fortified foods manufactured, imported, exported, distributed, advertised, sold or used in Nigeria. The document emphasizes that no person can sell or advertise any food that is represented on the label to the general public as fortified with vitamins and minerals unless it is registered with the Agency, manufacture, import, export, advertise, sell, distribute, store or use any fortified food as treatment, preventive or curative for any of the diseases, disorders or abnormal physical states specified in schedule I to these regulations, sell or advertise any food to the general public as fortified with vitamins and minerals referred to in these regulations, if the Nutrient Reference Value (NRV) intake of that food by a person will result in the NRV by such a person of more than the number of vitamins and mineral nutrients specified in schedule II of these regulations and no food product for global listing for supermarket Items and Restaurant Operators, shall be allowed unless it complies with the provisions of these regulations or as prescribed by the Agency. The Nutrient Reference Values are covered in schedule II.
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