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Food and Drugs Act

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Arrangement of Sections

Food, drugs, cosmetics and devices

1. Prohibition of sale of certain food, drugs, cosmetic and devices.

2. Prohibition of sale or advertisement of food, etc., as treatment, etc., for certain diseases.

3. Prohibition of importation, exportation, distribution, etc., of specified drugs.

4. Power of Minister to obtain particulars in respect of certain substances.

5. Prohibition of various misleading practices.

6. Manufacture, etc., of food, etc., under insanitary conditions.

7. Minister's certificate for manufacture, etc., of drugs specified in the Fourth or Fifth Schedule.

8. Declaration by manufacturer.

9. Designation of inspecting officers and analysts.

10. Powers of inspecting officers.

11. False statement.

12. Obstruction of inspecting officers.

13. Power of inspecting officers on importation of food, etc.

Forfeiture

14. Forfeiture.

Advisory Council

15. Food and Drugs Advisory Council.

Regulations

16. Regulations.

Penalties and legal proceedings

17. Penalties.

18. Trial of offences.

19. Defence in proceedings for sale of food, etc.

20. Certificates and presumptions.

General

21. Interpretation.

22. Short title.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

Diseases, etc., referred to in section 2

SECOND SCHEDULE

Drugs referred to in section 3

THIRD SCHEDULE

Publications referred to in section 5

FOURTH SCHEDULE

Drugs referred to in section 7 (1 )

FIFTH SCHEDULE

Drugs referred to in section 7 (2)

An Act to make provision for the regulation of the manufacture, sale and advertisement of food, drugs, cosmetics and devices and repeal the existing State laws on those matters.

[10th February, 1976] [Commencement.]

Food, drugs, cosmetics and devices

1. Prohibition of sale of certain food, drugs, cosmetic and devices

(1) No person shall sell, import, manufacture or store any article of food which-

[1999 No. 21.]

(a) has in it or upon it any poisonous or harmful substance not being a food additive or contaminant of a type and within the level permitted by regulations made under this Act;
(b) is unfit for human consumption; or
(c) consists in whole or in part of any filthy, disgusting, rotten or diseased substance.
(2) No person shall sell, import, manufacture or store any article of food or any drug which is adulterated.

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