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1986

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CHAPTER 249 AN ACT REQUIRING PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES TO INCLUDE PRENATAL CARE INFORMATION WITH SELF-ADMINISTERED PREGNANCY TEST KITS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chapter 94 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 192 the following section:-

Section 192A. The department of public health shall prescribe regulations requiring any pharmaceutical company which sells or delivers in the commonwealth self-administered pregnancy kits to include in the instructional brochures for each such kit language stressing the importance of early prenatal care and appropriate nutrition, in order to encourage pregnant women to seek medical care promptly after self-diagnosis of pregnancy.

Approved July 15, 1986.