(a) requiring the medical examination of any person in any premises in which any article of food intended
for sale is collected, kept, sold or exposed for sale, or of any person who has been engaged in the collection, preparation, keeping, conveyance or distribution of any such article;
(b) prohibiting the employment in connection with the collection, preparation, storage, distribution or sale
of any article of food of any person who has proved to be a carrier of the infection of typhoid or enteric
fever or other infectious disease.
(2) Any person contravenes or fails to comply with an order made in terms of subsection (1) shall be guilty
of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six
months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
[Subsection as inserted by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001]
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[Section repealed by Act No. 22 of 2001]
PART VII
INFANT NUTRITION
73 Interpretation in Part VII
In this Part—
“feeding article” means a bottle, teat, measuring device or other utensil or article designed to be used in preparing infant food or feeding infant food to infants;
“health worker” means a person who—
(a) is employed in a hospital, nursing-home, clinic, surgery, creche, nursery or other institution wherein
health care, treatment or attention is provided for pregnant women, mothers or infants; or
(b) is a medical practitioner or is employed by a medical practitioner in connection with his practice as such;
or
(c) performs any work, whether as a professional or non-professional and whether paid or not, in connection with the health of pregnant women, mothers or infants;
“infant” means a child under the age of seven years;
“infant food” means any food, including dairy produce as defined in the Dairy Act [Chapter 18:08] which
is—
(a) sold for consumption by infants; or
(b) represented by its manufacturer or seller as being suitable for consumption by infants;
“label” means any brand, mark or written or pictorial or other descriptive matter that appears on or is attached to or packed with, and refers to, any infant food or feeding article or the package thereof;
“market”, in relation to any product, indudes to promote, distribute, advertise or sell such product or to provide public relations or informational services in connection with such product;
“package” means anything in or by which any infant food or feeding article is covered, enclosed, contained
or packed;
“sell” includes—
(a) for the purposes of sale, to offer, keep, possess, expose, display, transmit, consign, convey or
deliver;
(b) to authorize, direct or allow a sale;
(c) to barter, exchange, supply or dispose of for any consideration, direct or indirect.
74 Regulations in respect of infant nutrition
(1) The Minister may make regulations in respect of all or any of the following matters—
(a) encouraging and promoting the breast-feeding of infants;
(b) standards of composition, quality or other properties of any infant food or feeding article, which standards may be prescribed by reference to any publication or document, whether published inside or outside Zimbabwe;
(c) the sampling and testing of infant food and feeding articles;
(d) regulating or restricting the marketing and sale of infant food and feeding articles, and in that connection—
(i) regulating the packages in which or from which any infant food or feeding article may be sold;
(ii) regulating the labels that may be attached to or marked on packages of any infant food or feeding article, and prescribing the matter to be or not to be contained on such labels;
(iii) regulating, restricting or prohibiting the marketing of any infant food or feeding article to the
public generally or any section of the public;
(iv) restricting or prohibiting any method of marketing any infant food or feeding article;
(v) regulating, restricting or prohibiting the giving or distribution of donations or samples of infant
food or feeding articles;
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