9. Acts prohibited from being done by manufacturer and
distributor:
(1) No manufacturer or distributor shall make an advertisement in the following manner:
(a) promoting any product,
(b) giving an impression or creating a belief that the feeding of mother’s milk substitutes is equivalent to, or better than, mother’s
milk.
(2) For purposes of this section, “advertisement” includes any advertisement made as follows:
(a) by any publication or television, radio, film, video or telephone,
(b) by a symbol, billboard, notice or exhibition of goods,
(c) by exhibition of pictures or miniatures,
(d) in any other manner.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in Sub-section (1), those publications reaching the medical practitioners only may contain an advertisement of
a product. Provided that, such advertisement shall be limited only to the factual and scientific matters and shall not be of such a nature as to give an impression or create a belief that the feeding of mother’s milk substitutes is equivalent to, or better than, mother’s milk. Such advertisement shall include the information as referred to in Section 7.
(4) No manufacturer or distributor shall give or distribute samples of product to any person.
(5) No manufacturer or distributor shall promote any product in the health care system.
(6) For purposes of this section, “promotion” means to introduce a product to any person or make any person acquainted with a product in any
manner including the following manner:
(a) by making advertisement,
(b) by using a book, pamphlet or poster as well as printed material containing the name or logo of the manufacturer or
distributor or the name, logo, graphic or other miniature of a proprietary product,
(c) by giving or distributing, free of cost or at nominal price, any matter containing the name or logo of the manufacturer or distributor or the
name, logo, graphic or other miniature of a proprietary product, (d) by demonstrating products, or
(e) in any other manner.
(7) Except in cases where a health care system or another institution or organization makes a request for a grant or contribution from a manufacturer or
distributor in the prescribed format and the committee approves the request as prescribed, no product shall be provided or donated to the health care system or
institution or organization.
(8) No manufacturer or distributor shall make contact with the general public in the health care system to increase own business or for such purpose.
(9) No manufacturer or distributor shall donate any equipment or goods to the health care system without obtaining the approval of the committee.
(10) No manufacturer or distributor shall present any gift or cause any financial or other benefits to a health worker.
(11) Except in cases where a manufacturer or distributor or health worker makes a request in the prescribed format and the committee approves such
request as prescribed, no scholarship or research grant shall be given to the health worker nor shall such amount as required to organize a professional
symposium or conference or as required for the health worker to participate in the symposium or conference be provided to the health worker.