Official Number

(1) The Minister shall grant to each slaughterhouse where an inspection takes place an official number which shall be used to identify all inspected and passed products prepared therein. (2) The Minister may, by order, assign to any slaughterhouse such ink brands, burning brands and like devices for marking products and such inspection legend as he may think fit. (3) No person shall affix or place or cause to be affixed or placed an inspection legend on any product or container except under the supervision of an authorised officer. (4) No person shall affix or place any mark purporting to be an inspection legend on any product. (5) Official inspection brands and like devices for marking products and other official devices and certificates shall be kept 82 Food and Drugs in a locker equipped with a lock and the keys of such lock shall not leave the custody of the authorised officer. (6) No person shall cause any carcass, part thereof, meat or meat by-product to be misbranded. This term applies in one or more of the following circumstancesMisbranding. (a) if its label is false or misleading in any particular manner; (b) if it is offered for sale under the name of another food; (c) if it is an imitation of another food unless its label bears in type of uniform, size and prominence the word “imitation” and immediately thereafter the name of the food imitated; (d) if the container is so made, formed or filled as to be misleading; (e) if in a package or other container, unless it bears a label showing– (i) the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor; and (ii) an accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure or numerical count; except as otherwise provided by these Regulations with respect to the quantity of the contents; (f) if any word, statement or other information required by or under authority of regulation to appear on the label or other labelling is not Food and Drugs 83 prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness (as compared with any other words, statements, designs or devices on the labelling) and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use; (g) if it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a definition and standard of identity or composition has been prescribed by these Regulations unless– (i) it conforms to such definition standard; and (ii) its label bears the name of the food specified in the definition and standard and, insofar as may be required by such regulations, the common names of optional ingredients (other than spices, flavouring, and colouring) present in such food; (h) if it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a standard or standards of fill of container have been prescribed by the regulations and it falls below the standard of fill of container applicable thereto, unless its label bears, in such manner and form as such regulations specify, a statement that it falls below such standard; (i) if it is not subject to the provision of (g) of this section unless its label bears– (i) the common or usual name of the food, if there be any; and 84 Food and Drugs (ii) in case it is fabricated from two or more ingredients, the common or usual name of each such ingredient, except as otherwise provided in the regulations; (j) if it purports to be or is represented for special dietary properties, as required by the regulations; (k) if it bears or contains any artificial flavouring, artificial colouring, chemical preservative unless it bears a label stating that fact; except as otherwise provided by the regulations; (l) if it fails to bear directly thereon or on its containers when required by regulations, the inspection legend and, unrestricted by any of the foregoing, such other information as the Minister may require in such regulations to assure that it will not have false or misleading labelling and that the public will be informed of the manner of handling required to maintain the article in a wholesome condition.