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Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Chapter IV

Title: General Provisions as to Articles of Food

State: Central

Year: 2006

.....foods, functional foods, proprietary foods, etc. Save as otherwise provided under this Act and regulations made thereunder, no person shall manufacture, distribute, sell or import any novel food, genetically modified articles of food, irradiated food, organic foods, foods for special dietary uses, functional foods, neutraceuticals, health supplements, proprietary foods and such other articles of food which the Central Government may notify in this behalf. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section,-- (1) "foods for special dietary uses or functional foods or nutraceuticals or health supplements" means: (a) foods which are specially processed or formulated to satisfy particular dietary requirements which exist because of a particular physical or physiological condition or specific diseases and disorders and which are presented as such, wherein the composition of these foodstuffs must differ significantly from the composition of ordinary foods of comparable nature, if such ordinary foods exist, and may contain one or more of the following ingredients, namely:-- (i) plants or botanicals or their parts in the form of powder, concentrate or extract in water, ethyl.....

Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Section 21

Title: Pesticides, Veterinary Drugs Residues, Antibiotic Residues and Microbiological Counts

State: Central

Year: 2006

(1) No article of food shall contain insecticides or pesticides residues, veterinary drugs residues, antibiotic residues, solvent residues, pharmacological active substances and micro-biological counts in excess of such tolerance limits as may be specified by regulations. (2) No insecticide shall be used directly on article of food except fumigants registered and approved under the Insecticides Act, 1968(46 of 1968). Explanation.--For the purposes of this section,-- (1) "pesticide residue" means any specified substance in food resulting from the use of a pesticide and includes any derivatives of a pesticide, such as conversion products, metabolites, reaction products and impurities considered to be of toxicological significance and also includes such residues coming into food from environment; (2) "residues of veterinary drugs" include the parent compounds or their metabolites or both in any edible portion of any animal product and include residues of associated impurities of the veterinary drug concerned.

Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2006

.....results meet with objectives of food safety and the claims made in that behalf; (s) "food safety Management System" means the adoption of Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Hygienic Practices, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point and such other practices as may be specified by regulation, for the food business; (t) "food safety Officer" means an officer appointed under s.37; (u) "hazard" means a biological, chemical or physical agent in, or condition of, food with the potential to cause an adverse health effect; (v) "import" means bringing into India any article of food by land, sea or air; (w) "improvement notice" means a notice issued under s.32 of this Act; (x) "infant food" and "infant milk substitute" shall have the meanings assigned to them in clauses (f) and (g) of sub-section (1) of s.2 of the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) act, 1992 (41 of 1992), respectively; (y) "ingredient" means any substance, including a food additive used in the manufacture or preparation of food and present in the final product, possibly in a modified form; (z) "label" means any tag, brand, mark, pictorial or.....

Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970) Chapter II

Title: Inventions Not Patentable

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....dated 25.06.2002 w.e.f 20.05.2003. Prior to omission it read as under : "(g) a method or process of testing applicable during the process of manufacture for rendering the machine, apparatus or other equipment more efficient or for the improvement or restoration of the existing machine, apparatus or other equipment or for the improvement or control of manufacture;" 5. "or plants" omitted by Patents (Amdt.) Act, 2002 dated 25.06.2002 w.e.f 20.05.2003. Section 4 - Inventions relating to atomic energy not patentable No patent shall be granted in respect of an invention relating to atomic energy falling within sub-section (1) of section 20 of the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 (33 of 1962). Section 5 - Omitted 5. 1 [Omitted] ________________________ 1. Omitted by Patents amendment Act (15 of 2005), Section 5 previous to omission read as under: Inventions are only methods or processes of manufacture patentable.-* [(1)] In the case of inventions- (a) claiming substances intended for use, or capable of being used, as food or as medicine or drug, or (b) relating to substances prepared or produced by chemical processes (including alloys, optical glass, semi-conductors and.....

Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970) Section 3

Title: What Are Not Inventions

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....w.e.f 20.05.2003. 3. Substituted by Patents amendment Act (15 of 2005) for the words "the mere discovery of any new property or new use for a known substance or of the mere use of a known process, machine or apparatus unless such known process results in a new product or employs at least one new reactant" 4. Clause (g) omitted by Patents (Amdt.) Act, 2002 dated 25.06.2002 w.e.f 20.05.2003. Prior to omission it read as under : "(g) a method or process of testing applicable during the process of manufacture for rendering the machine, apparatus or other equipment more efficient or for the improvement or restoration of the existing machine, apparatus or other equipment or for the improvement or control of manufacture;" 5. "or plants" omitted by Patents (Amdt.) Act, 2002 dated 25.06.2002 w.e.f 20.05.2003.

Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970) Amending Act II

Title: Amendment Act

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....date of the applicant's claim; (f)that the subject of any claim of the complete specification is not an inventionwithin the meaning of this Act, or is not patentable under this Act; (g)that the complete specification does not sufficiently and clearly describe theinvention or the method by which it is to be performed; (h)that the applicant has failed to disclose to the Controller the informationrequired by section 8 or has furnished the information which in any materialparticular was false to his knowledge; (i)that in the case of a convention application, the application was not madewithin twelve months from the date of the first application for protection forthe invention made in a convention country by the applicant or a person fromwhom he derives title; (j)that the complete specification does not disclose or wrongly mentions the sourceor geographical origin of biological material used for the invention; (k)that the invention so far as claimed in any claim of the complete specificationis anticipated having regard to the knowledge, oral or otherwise, availablewithin any local or indigenous community in India or elsewhere, buton no other ground,' andthe.....

Patents Act, 1970 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1970

PATENTS ACT, 1970 PATENTS ACT, 1970 39 OF 1970 An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to patents. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER 1 : PRELIMINARY SECTION 1 : Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Patents Act, 1970. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint : Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision. SECTION 2 : Definitions and interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Appellate Board" means the Appellate Board referred to in Sec. 116; (ab) "assignee" includes an assignee of the assignee and the legal representative of a deceased assignee and references to the assignee of any person include references to the assignee of the legal representative or assignee of that person; (aba) "Budapest Treaty" mean the Budapest.....