Section 102 in The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945
102. [ Non-Sterile Surgical Ligature and Suture. [Amended by S.R.O. 3262, dated 15.10.1954.]
- Every container of, and wrapper enclosing surgical ligature or suture other than a ligature or suture offered or intended to be offered for sale as sterile, shall bear a label on which are printed or written in a conspicuous manner in indelible red ink the words "Non-sterile surgical ligature (suture)-not to be used for operations upon the human body unless efficiently sterilized".]
