Nigeria - 2019 - Agriculture and Rural Development

NAFDAC Non-Nutritive Sweeteners In Food Products Regulations 2019

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

These regulations apply to all non-nutritive sweeteners listed in schedule 1 of this document. it states the general requirements for the use of non-nutritive sweeteners. it emphasizes that no person shall manufacture, import, export, advertise, sell, or present any food item or beverage containing a non-nutritive sweetener for human consumption, except as provided for in these regulations and no person shall sell a sweetener or food product containing a sweetener as an ingredient, other than a sweetener referred to in schedule I of these regulations.

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

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NAFDAC Non-Nutritive Sweeteners In Food Products Regulations 2019 Current Version

January 2022

These regulations apply to all non-nutritive sweeteners listed in schedule 1 of this document. it states the general requirements for the use of non-nutritive sweeteners. it emphasizes that no person shall manufacture, import, export, advertise, sell, or present any food item or beverage containing a non-nutritive sweetener for human consumption, except as provided for in these regulations and no person shall sell a sweetener or food product containing a sweetener as an ingredient, other than a sweetener referred to in schedule I of these regulations.

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