Adulteration - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Adulteration, the corrupt production of any article, especially food: indictable at common law, see R. v. Dixon, (1814) 3 M&S 11. The adulteration of bread, corn, meal, or flour is made a statutory offence by the Bread Act, 1836, and the (English) Bread Acts (Amendment) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 28), and that of food, including drink, generally by the (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31).By the act the mixing, colouring, staining or powdering of any article so as to render it injurious to health, as to affect injuriously the quality of the drugs or lettering any article in such estate, in punishable for a first offence by a fine not exceeding 50l.; for a second offence by imprison-ment not exceeding six months. The sale to the prejudice of the purchaser of articles of food and drugs not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser, is prohibited. Where however, the article is properly labelled as mixed, no liability arises. Prov...
Adulterant
Adulterant, 'adulterant' means any material which is or could be employed for the purposes of adulteration. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (37 of 1954), s. 2(i)]Means any material which is or could be employed for making the food unsafe or substandard, misbranded or containing extraneous matter. [The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, s. 3(a)]Means any material which is or could be employed for the purposes of adulteration. [The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, s. 2(a)]...
Adulterated
Adulterated, An article of food shall be deemed to be adulterated - (a) to (e) (f) if the article consists wholly or in part of any filthy, putrid, disgusting, rotten, decomposed or diseased animal or vegetable substance or is insect-infested or is otherwise unfit for human consumption, Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Kacheroo Mal (1976) 1 SCC 412: AIR 1976 SC 394. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, s. 2(i)(f)]...
Adulteration and misbranding of foodstuffs
Adulteration and misbranding of foodstuffs, Adulteration and misbranding of foodstuffs is a rampant evil and a statute calculated to control that evil is indisputably in the interest of the general public. The statute imposing restrictions upon traders will not be deemed unreasonable merely because it makes a departure from the normal structure of statutes enunciating offences and prescribing punishments, Andhra Pradesh Grain and Seed Merchants Association v. Union of India, AIR 1971 SC 2346 (2349): 1970 (2) SCC 71. (Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954)...
Drugs, adulteration of
Drugs, adulteration of, see the (English) Sale of Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31); and ADULTERATION....
adulterate
adulterate -at·ed -at·ing : to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element ;esp : to prepare for sale by omitting a valuable ingredient or by replacing more valuable ingredients with less valuable or inert and usually harmful ingredients or with ingredients different from those claimed NOTE: Under the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a device such as a piece of medical equipment that is defective in some way is considered adulterated. adul·ter·a·tion [ə-dəl-tə-rā-shən] n adul·ter·a·tor [ə-dəl-tə-rā-tər] n ...
Adulterated article
Adulterated article, The ordinary sense of 'adulteration' connotes the mixing of deleterious or other substance with the main basic article; but the definition in the Act has been widened to include even those articles where the contents do not include the basic substance either wholly or partly, Ballabhdas Agarwal v. J.C. Chakravarty AIR 1960 SC 576 (585): (1960) 2 SCR 739. [Calcutta Municipal Act (3 of 1923) s. 3(2)]...
Medicine, adulteration of
Medicine, adulteration of. See ADULTERATION.It means modern scientific medicine in all its branches and includes surgery and obstetrics, but does not include veterinary medicine and surgery. [Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), s. 2 (f)]The definition of the word 'medicine' in s. 2(f) of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 is too wide to determine if it includes cardiology. It is also not necessary to go into the dictionary meaning of the expression as it is clear from the relevant Regulations that medicine and surgery are general subjects and Cardiology and Orthopaedics are their respective specialities. Where general subject such as medicine or surgery is being dealt with in a regulation, the specialist branch under it would be covered, though not vice versa, because if one wants to hold a post in the specialist branch he must of necessity have teaching experience in the specialist branch. Undisputably, one qualifying for M.D. (Medicine) has to learn the subject of Cardi...
Seeds Adulteration Act, 1869
Seeds Adulteration Act, 1869 (English) (32 & 33 Vict. c. 112), amended as to meaning of 'dyeing' by the Adulteration of Seeds Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 17) (passed in consequence of Francis v. Maas, (1878) 3 QBD 341, where it was held no offence to make old seeds look like new). A thus amended the Act penalizes up to 5l. killing or dyeing seeds, the term 'to dye seeds' meaning 'to apply to seeds any process of colouring, dyeing, or sulphur smoking.' See also Seeds Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 54), requiring delivery to the purchaser of particulars specifying (inter alia) that the seeds sold have been tested as required by the Act....
Wine, Adulteration of
Wine, Adulteration of, an offence against public health, formerly punished with the forfeiture of 100l. if done by the wholesale merchant, and 40l. if done by the vintner or retail trader, 12 Car. 2, c. 25, s. 11, repealed by the (English) Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125). See ADULTERATION.As to misdescription of 'Port' wine and Maderia, see 5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 1, and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 39....
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