Taking sample of antibiotics

(1) A person authorised in writing by or on behalf of the Committee may require the holder of a licence to store antibiotics granted under this Act to produce samples of any antibiotic which may be in his possession and, on payment of the current market value of any sample, may require that it be delivered to him for purposes of assay. (2) If any such sample is found on assay to have deteriorated to an extent or to contain toxic substances in amounts which, in the opinion of the Committee, render it ineffective or unfit for use as a therapeutic substance, or not to contain the antibiotic or to contain the antibiotic in a lesser degree of potency than it purports to possess, the Committee may require the person who produced the sample to destroy the whole or any part of the stock of the antibiotic in the possession of the licensee which bears the same batch identification number as the sample.