Infant formula: A comparison of legislation in the United States and Taiwan
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Shang-Yu Lin, "Infant Formula: A Comparison of Legislation in the United States and Taiwan" (March 18, 2012).Abstract
This paper examines and contrasts the legal framework in the United States and comparable legislation in Taiwan. Prompted by the Syntex incident, the U.S. Congress passed the Infant Formula Act of 1980, and delegated the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to establish the regulations in order to safeguard the health of infant children. In contrast to the legislation history in the United States, Taiwan enacted the comparable law and established relevant regulations late in 2008. A comparison of these two legal systems reveals that the United States has a more comprehensive regulatory scheme for infant formula, while Taiwan focuses only on the sanitary conditions for infant formula manufacture. Besides, U.S. infant formula regulations have expanded and become more stringent while Taiwan’s FDA (TFDA) only requires manufacturers to meet certain sanitary requirements, without mandating how to achieve them. Another difference is that the U.S. FDA does not require infant formula manufacturers to note that breastfeeding is more nutritious than infant formula on their product labels, but TFDA takes a firm stance and requires formula manufacturers to state on product labels that breast milk is more nutritious than formula.Terms of Use
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