Food and Drugs Act, /992 P.N.D.C.L.3058 P.N.D.C.L. 3058 FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 19921 AN ACT to provide standards for the sale of food and drugs and for related matters. Foods 1. Prohibition against sale of unwholesome food (1) A person commits an offence if that person sells or offers for sale a food (a) that has in or on it a poisonous or harmful substance, (b) that is unwholesome or unfit for human or animal consumption, (c) that consists in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, rotten, decomposed or diseased substance, (d) that is adulterated, (e) that is injurious to health, or (f) that is not of the nature, substance or quality prescribed by standards. (2) In determining whether an article of food is injurious to health, regard should be had not only to the probable effect of that article on the health of a person consuming it, but also to the probable cumulative effect of articles of substantially similar composition on the health of a person consuming the article in ordinary quantities. 2. Food offered as a prize (1) Section I applies to a food intended for human or animal consumption which is offered as (a) a prize or a reward in connection with an entertainment to which the public is admitted whether on payment of money or not, or (b) a prize or a reward given away for advertisement purposes or in furtherance of a trade or business, as if the food were exposed for sale by the organizers of the entertainment or the person offering or giving away the food. (2) In this section "entertainment" includes a public or social gathering, an amusement, exhibition, a performance, sport or game. (3) For the purposes of this Act, food is adulterated if (a) a constituent of the food has in whole or in part been omitted or abstracted; (b) a damage to the food or the poor quality of the food has been concealed in any manner; L This Act was issued as the Food and Drugs Law, 1992 (P.N.D.C.L. 3058) made on the 30th day of December,1992 and notified in the Gazette on 16th July, 1993. It came into force on 30th June, 1996. IV - 903 [Issue 1]