Traditional Drug Law.

The aims of this Law are: (a) to promote and develop traditional medicine and traditional drugs; (b) to enable the public to consume genuine quality, safe and efficacious traditional drugs; (c) to register traditional drugs systematically; (d) to control and regulate systematically the manufacture of traditional drugs.
For the purpose of carrying out measures relating to traditional drugs mentioned in this Law, the Government shall incorporate in the Myanmar Food and Drug Board of Authority. The functions and duties of the Board of Authority iclude: (a) laying down policy relating to registration of traditional drugs; (b) determining the qualifications of persons entitled to apply for licence and the terms and conditions thereof for the manufacture of the registered traditional drug; (c) stipulation terms and conditions relating to labeling of drugs, altering of labels and advertising; (d) stipulating terms and conditions relating to the quality assurance of the registered traditional drug; etc. The Law further makes provisions, inter alia, for: registration of traditional drugs, application for licence, offences and penalties.