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The Breast-Milk Substitutes (Regulation of Marketing) Ordinance, 1984

( Ordinance NO. XXXIII OF 1984 )

Container and labelling
5. (1) No breast-milk substitute shall be marketed unless-
 
 
(a) it is put in a sealed and hermetically closed container;
 
 
(b) an easily readable and understandable message in Bangla is printed on a conspicuous part of its container to the effect that nothing is substitute for or equivalent or superior to breast-milk;
 
 
(c) clear instructions on the proper method of its preparation and information regarding its composition are printed on the container or in a literature kept inside the container; and
 
 
(d) 1[its registration number and the dates] of its manufacture and the expiry of its usefulness are printed on the container.
 
 
(2) Neither the container nor any literature kept inside the container shall have any picture of infant or such other picture or writing which may idealise the use of any breast-milk substitute.

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    The words “its registration number and the dates” were substituted for the words “the dates,” by section 4 of the Breast-Milk Substitutes (Regulation of Marketing) (Amendment) Act, 1990 (Act No. XVI of 1990)
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