(1) Creamery Butter shall be packed in Cartons, packets, tins or any other packing material as may be approved by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser or an Officer authorized in this regard.
(2) In the case of packets and cartons, each unit of butter shall be wrapped in clean hard-neutral vegetable parchment.
(3) Only clean new tins lacquered on the inside shall be used and they shall be closed either by soldering or reaming or both. The top and bottom of each tin shall be lined with clean hard neutral vegetable parchment.
(4) The sizes of packing shall be as prescribed in the relevant instructions :
(5) The containers shall not be composed, whether wholly or in part , of any poisonous or deleterious substance which renders the contents injurious to health,
(6) The containers shall be free from insect infestation, fungus contamination or any obnoxious and undesirable smell ;
(7) Each package shall contain butter of one grade designation only. Small packs of 10 gms. chip lets containing material of the same churn and bearing Agmark Replica may be packed in a large container, provided that the large containers shall be packed, sealed and marked in the prescribed manner.
6. Marking Provisions :
(1) A grade designation mark shall be securely affixed to or printed on each tin, carton or packet of butter in a manner approved by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser or an officer authorised in this regard;
(2) In addition to the grade designation mark, following particulars shall also be clearly and indelibly marked on each container:-
(a) Name and address of the packer,
(b) Place of packing,
(c) Date of packing in month and year either in code or in plain words and figures on cartons and packets containing more than 20 grams net weight butter and in plain words and figures on tins,
(d) Lot/batch/churn number,
(e) Net weight;
(3) Where on extraneous colouring matter, i.e. annatto or carotene is added to butter, it shall be indicated in capital letters as below;
CONTAINS PERMITTED COLOUR ANNATTO/CAROTENE
(4) Where the extraneous flavoring agent i.e. diacetyl is added to butter, it shall be indicated in capital letters as below:
CONTAINS ADDED FLAVOUR ‘DIACETYL’.
(5) An authorised packer may, after obtaining prior approval of the Agricultural Marketing Adviser or an officer authorised in this regard., mark his private trade mark on the container provided that the private trade mark does not represent quality or grade different from that indicated by the grade designation mark affixed to the container in accordance with these rules.