Laws

Question 1

Mandated the Integration of Nutrition Education in the School Curriculum

Answer 1

LOI 441

Question 2

• The National Nutrition Council was created.
• The month of July as the NUTRITION MONTH under section 7 to create greater awareness among people on the importance of nutrition.

Answer 2

Presidential Decree No. 491 (1974) NUTRITION ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Question 3

To ensure safe and adequate nutrition for infants is provided, to protect and promote breastfeeding, and to inform the public about the proper use of breastmilk substitutes and supplements.

Answer 3

Executive Order 51 (1986) NATIONAL CODE OF MARKETING OF BREASTMILK SUBSTITUTES, BREASTMILK SUPPLEMENTS AND OTHER RELATED PRODUCTS

Question 4

• Designed to prevent businesses that engage in fraud or specified unfair practices from gaining an advantage over competitors and provide additional protection for the weak and those unable to take care of themselves.

Consumer Rights:
• Right to basic needs
• Right to safety
• Right to information
• Right to choice
• Right to representation
• Right to redress
• Right to consumer education
• Right to a health environment

Answer 4

R.A. 7394 (1992) CONSUMER ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Question 5

• An act providing incentives to all government and private health institutions with rooming in and breastfeeding practices and for other purposes.
• This law is in promotion of the state policy to encourage the practice of breastfeeding in the Philippines.

Answer 5

R.A. 7600 (1992) THE ROOMING IN AND BREASTFEEDING ACT

Question 6

• To protect and promote the health of the people, to maintain an effective food regulatory system to provide the entire population, especially women and children with proper nutrition.
• Contribute to the elimination of micronutrient malnutrition in the country, particularly iodine deficiency disorders, through cost-effective preventive measures of salt iodization.

Answer 6

R.A. 8172 (1995) ACT FOR SALT IODIZATION NATIONWIDE (ASIN LAW)

Question 7

• Consist of voluntary food fortification and mandatory food fortification.
• Section 5. Voluntary food fortification - Under the Sangkap Pinoy Seal Program (SPSP), the department shall encourage the fortification of all processed food or food products based on acceptable standards on food fortification set by the DOH through the BFAD shall issue effectivity of this act.
• Section 6. Mandatory food fortification act - The fortification for staple foods based on standard set by the DOH through BFAD is hereby made mandatory.

Answer 7

R.A. 8976 (2000) FOOD FORTIFICATION ACT

Question 8

The national food fortification day is observed annually on Nov. 7, persuant to E.O 382, which recognizes the persistence of micronutrient deficiencies as a public health problem.

Answer 8

National Food Fortification Day

Question 9

Responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the laws.

Answer 9

Department of Health

Question 10

Serves as the policy making body, particularly relative to determining what food vehicles should be fortified with what nutrients.

Answer 10

National Nutrion Council

Question 11

Assists manufacturers in upgrading their technologies by providing financial assistance and other non-monetary assistance.

Answer 11

Department of Trade and Industry

Question 12

Helps in developing and implementing comprehensive programs for the acquisition, design, and manufacture of machines and technologies and their transfer to manufacturers.

Answer 12

Department of Science and Technology

Question 13

Assist manufacturers by providing preferential loans at preferential rates.

Answer 13

Land Bank of the Philippines and Livelihood Corporation

Question 14

An act Strengthening and nationalizing capacity of the bureau of food and drugs BFAD by establishing adequate testing laboratories and field offices. Upgrading its equipment, aumenting its human resource complement, giving authority to retain its income, renaming it the FDA, amending certain sections of R.A. 3720, as amended and appropriating funds thereof.

Answer 14

R.A. 9711 (2008) FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ACT

Question 15

• An act expanding the promotion of breastfeeding, amending for the purpose R.A. 7600.

Provisions
• Lactation stations in every private enterprise, government agencies, government owned, and controlled corporations.
• “Lactation periods” for breastfeeding employees, in addition to time off for meals, to allow them time to express their breast.

Answer 15

R.A. 10028 (2009)
EXPANDED BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION ACT

Question 16

• The food safety act of 2013 shall be a framework for implementing the farm to fork food safety regulatory system.
• To strengthen the food safety regulatory system in the country.

Answer 16

R.A. 10611 (2013) FOOD SAFETY ACT

Question 17

The yearly campaign in the Philippines aimed at the importance of safe and clean food. The week long celebration falls every October and was proclaimed on Aug. 1999 by vitrue of proclamtion no. 160, signed by President Joseph Estrada.

Answer 17

Food Safety Awareness Week

Question 18

Allergy awareness month and great time to leatn more about food allergies and how to keep those with allergies safe.

Answer 18

The month of May

Question 19

• An act reguakting the practice of nutrition and dietetics in the Philippines.
• Recognizes the important role of registered nutritionist-dieticians (RNDs) in nation-building and in human development through adequate nutrition.
• Promote the sustained development of RNDs whose competence has been determined by honest and credible licensure examinations and whose standards of professional service and practice are intentionally recognized and considered world-class, brought by regulatory measures, programs and activities that foster growth and advancement of the profession.

Answer 19

R.A. 10862 (2015) NUTRITION AND DIETETICS LAW OF 2016

Question 20

• President Rodrigo Duterte signed on Nov. 29, An act scaling up the national and local heakth and nutrition programs through a strengthened integrated strategy for maternal, neonatal, child health, and nutrition in the 1st 1000 days of life.
• Strengthens the national and local health and nutrition programs for pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls, infants, and youbg culdren in the 1st 1000 days.

Answer 20

R.A. 11148 (2018) KALUSUGAN AT NUTRISYON NG MAGNANAY ACT