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105 CMR 630.000: PLASTIC BAGS AND PLASTIC FILM 
No person shall sell, off er for sale, or deliver, or offer for delivery, or give away any 
plastic bag or partial plastic bag intende d for dom estic or household use, or for 
packaging articles intended for dom estic or household use, or which is so designed or 
decorated so as to encourage its use as a toy, the length and w idth of which w hen added 
together totals 25 inches or m ore and the opening of which when shaped into the form 
of a circle has a diam eter of seven inches or  more; and th e material of which is less than 
one m il in thickness; unless such plastic bag bears the following warning statem ent, or 
such warning statem ent which the Director  of Food and Drugs has approved as the 
equivalent thereof: 
"WARNING: To avoid danger of suffocati on, keep this plastic bag away from 
babies and children. Do not use this bag in cr ibs, beds, carriages or play pens. This bag 
is not a toy." 
Such warning statem ent shall be im printed in a prom inent place on the plastic bag 
or shall appear  on a l abel secur ely attached to the bag i n a prom inent place, and shall be 
printed in legible type which shall be c ontrasted by typography, lay-out or color from 
the contents of the bag and from  other printed m atter on the bag, if any. 
The size of the print of such statem ent shall be as follows: 
Table 1 
Total length and width of bag Size of print 
60 inches or m ore At least 24 point 
40 inches to, but not including 60 inches At least 18 point 
25 inches to, but not including 40 inches At least 14 point 
The label shall appear on both sides of a bag. In the case of bags whose total length 
and width is m ore than 40 inches, the label shall be repeated at 20-inch intervals. 
Whoe ver violates any pr ovision of 105 CM R 630.000 shall be punished by a fine of 
not m ore than $100.00 for the first offense, nor m ore than $500.00 for any subsequent 
offense. 
REGULATORY AUTHORITY 
105 CMR 630.000: M.G.L. c. 111, § 5D. 
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