Examination and seizure of unsound meat, etc

(1) Any health officer may at all reasonable times inspect and examine any animal, carcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, flour, milk or any other article of food, solid or liquid, exposed for sale or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale or preparation for sale and intended for the food of man, and if any such animal, carcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetable, corn, bread, flour, milk or other article of food appears to such health etc. 40 officer to be diseased or unsound or unwholesome or unfit for the food of man he may seize and carry away the same himself or by an assistant or order it to be destroyed or so disposed of as to prevent such article being used for the food of man. (2) The person in whose custody any such animal, carcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetable, corn, bread, flour, milk or other article of food as aforesaid is found is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, the proof that the same was not exposed or deposited for any such purpose or was not intended for the food of man resting with the party charged. Mitigation of Infectious and Epidemic Diseases