Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Rules 2003 PDF

f | (४९, 2 aS THE GAZETTE OFINDIA:EXTRAORDINARY ————_—[Paar Il—Sec. 3(i)] MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEV...

f | (४९, 2 aS THE GAZETTE OFINDIA:EXTRAORDINARY ————_—[Paar Il—Sec. 3(i)] MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (Department of Women and Child Development) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 19th December, 2003 G.S.R. 959(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 26 of the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 (41 of 1992), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Rules, 1993, namely :— 1. (1) These rules may be called the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Rules, 2003. (2) They shall come into force on the Ist day of January, 2004 2. In rule 5 of the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Rules, 1993 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules),— (i) for the words “infant milk substitutes, feeding bottles”, the words “infant milk substitutes or infant foods or feeding bottles” shall be substituted; — (ii) for the words “infant milk substitutes or feeding bottles” at both the places where they occur, the words “infant milk substitutes or infant foods or feeding bottles” shall be substituted (iii) for the word “organization or health worker in private practice”, the words “organization, health worker in private practice, pharmacy, drug store or any association of health workers” shall be substituted. 3. In mule 7 of the said rules,— (i) for the marginal heading, “Particulars of labelling of infant foods”, the marginal heading “Particulars of labelling of infant milk substitute and infant foods” shall be substituted; (ii) for the words “infant milk or infant food substitute or their advertisements”, the words “infant milk substitute or infant food” shall be substituted; (iii) for the words “the label, container or the advertisement’, at both the places where they occur, the words “the label or container” shall be substituted; (iv) In clause (d), sub-clause (i), for the words, “Infant milk food” the words, “Infant food” shall be substituted. 4. Inrule 8 of the said rules, — (i) in the marginal heading, for the words “a label, container or an advertisement”, the words “a label or container” shall be substituted (ii) for the words “a label, container or advertisement”, wherever they occur, the words “a label or container” shall be substituted 5. Inrule 9 of the said rules, in sub-rule (1), in clause (a), in sub-clause (ii), in item (A), for the words “in the first few months of its birth”, the words “for the first six months of life” shall be substituted [F. No. 12-13/97-TR.I/IMS(Vol. 1D} KASTURI GUPTA MENON, Secy. Footnote :— The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India vide notification number G.S.R. 528(E), dated the 31st July, 1993 and subsequently amended vide G.S.R. 726(E), dated 2nd December, 1993 and G.S.R. 50(E), dated the 22nd January, 1999. Printed by the Manager, Govt. of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.