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    Special Purpose Foods
    Malaysia


    This section provides the regulatory definition of the food category in scope, or the appropriate food category for the product in scope. Additionally, it provides the food products that belong to this food category along with the definition and specific information on each of these types of food products.

    2.1 Category Name & Definition

    Category Name

    Special Purpose Food (Regulation 388, Malaysia Food Regulation) [1]

    Definition

    "Special purpose food" means a food named or described as particularly suitable for consumption by persons requiring special nutritional needs and includes infant formula, follow-up formula, canned food for infants and children, processed cereal-based foods for infants and young children, low-energy food, formula dietary food, special dietary foods with low sodium content including salt substitute.


    2.2 Product & Definition


    Refer to Section 2.2 of “2.0 Product Categories” of specific product Guidebooks.

    2.3 References

    1. Malaysia Food Regulations

    http://fsq.moh.gov.my/v6/xs/page.php?id=72


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