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Insect-infested

Insect-infested, the expression 'insect-infested' was not defined in the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act and has, therefore, to be given its ordinary meaning. The word 'infest' appears to have been derived from the latin word 'infestate' which meant 'to assail or molest'. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (Volume V at page 259) the word 'infest' means 'To attack assail, annoy or trouble (a person or thing) in a persistent manner', 'to visit persistently or in large number for purposes of destruction or plunder', 'to swarm in or about, so as to be troublesome'. In the same dictionary the word 'infestation' is stated to mean: 'The action of infesting, assailing, harassing, or molesting'. It is also mentioned that the word is now used especially for 'insects which attack plants, grain, etc. in large swarms'. Thus an article of food would be 'insect-infested', if it has been attacked by insects in swarms or numbers, Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Kacheroo Mal, AIR 1976 SC 3...

Infest

Infest, according to Webster's New World Diction-ary 'infest' means 'to overrun or inhabit in large numbers, usually so as to be harmful or bother-some, swarm in or about'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'any of a large group of small invertebrate animals characterised, in the adult state, by division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of membranous wings: beetles, bees, flies, wasps, mosquitoes, etc. are insects'. According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 'worm' means 'a slender, creeping, naked, limbless animal usually brown or reddish with a soft body divided into a series of segments; an earthworm'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'a small invertebrate animal, usually having a body divided into segments, and several pairs of legs, and often winged'. According to Webster's Illustrated Contemporary Dictionary (Encyclopedic Edition), 'infest' means 'to overrun or spread in large numbers so as to be unpleasant or unsafe', St...

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)]...

Or is otherwise unfit for human consumption

Or is otherwise unfit for human consumption, the words 'or' is otherwise unfit for human consumption are disjunctive of the rest of the words preceding them. It relates to a distinct and separate class altogether. The clause 'or is otherwise unfit for human consumption' is residuary provision which would apply to a case not covered by or falling squarely within the clauses preceding it. If the phrase is to be read disjunctively the mere proof of the article of food being 'filthy, putrid, rotten,decomposed.... or insect infested' would be per se sufficient to bring within the purview of theword 'adulterated' as defined in sub-clause (f) and it would not be necessary in such a case toprove further that the article of food was unfit for human consumption, Municipal Corporation v. Tek Chand Bhatia, (1980) 1 SCC 158: AIR 1980 SC 360 (362). [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, s. 2(1)(f)]...

Infestation

The act of infesting or state of being infested molestation vexation annoyance...

Infester

One who or that which infests...

Destructive insects

Destructive insects. In order to prevent the introduction and spread of any insect, fungus, or other pest destructive to agricultural or horticultural crops, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may, by virtue of the Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1907, make orders and exercise powers similar to those given by the (English) Destructive Insects Act, 1877. The (English) Forestry Act, 1919, transfers these powers to the Forestry Commissioners in so far as they relate to timber and forest trees. See COLORADO BEETLE....

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