Section Section 31
; (zb) 'local area means any area, whether urban or rural, notified by the Commi
section 31; (zb) 'local area means any area, whether urban or rural, notified by the Commissioner of Food Safety; to be a local area for the purposes of this Act; (zc) "manufacture means process O adoption O any treatment for conversion of ingredients into an article of food, which includes any sub-process, incidental Or ancillary to the manufacture of an article of food; (zd) "manufacturer" means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing any article of food for sale and includes any person who obtains such article from another person and packs and labels it for sale or only labels it for such purposes; '[(ze) "Member" includes a part-time Member and the Chairperson of the Food Authority;] "misbranded food" means an article of food_ (A) if it is purported, Or is represented to be, Or is being offered or promoted for sale with false, misleading O deceptive claims either; upon the label of the package, or (b) through advertisement; or ii sold by a name which belongs to another article of food; O1 (iii) offered or promoted for sale under the name of a fictitious individual or company as the manufacturer Or producer of the article as borne on the package or containing the article or the label on such package; or B) if the article is sold in packages which have been sealed or prepared by or at the instance of the manufacturer O producer bearing his name and address but_ the article is an imitation of, Or is substitute for, or resembles in a manner likely to deceive, another article of food under the name of which it is sold, and is not plainly and conspicuously labelled so as to indicate its true character; O (ii) the package containing the article or the label on the package bears any statement, design or device regarding the ingredients or the substances contained therein, which is false or misleading in any material particular, Or if the package is otherwise deceptive with respect to its contents; O (iii) the article is offered for sale as the product of any place O country which is false; Or if the article contained in the package contains any artificial flavouring, colouring O chemical preservative and the package is without declaratory label stating that fact or is not labelled in accordance with the requirements of this Act O regulations made thereunder Or is in contravention thereof; O (ii) is offered for sale for special dietary uses, unless its label bears such information as may be specified by regulation, concerning its vitamins, minerals or other dietary properties in order sufficiently to inform its purchaser as to its value for such use; O1 (iii) is not conspicuously or correctly stated on the outside thereof within the limits of
1. Subs: by Act 13 of 2008, s. 2, for cl. (ze) (w.e.f: 7-2-2008)_
variability laid down under this Act: (zg) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (zh) "package means pre-packed box, bottle, casket, tin, barrel, case, pouch, receptacle, sack; bag, wrapper o such other things in which an article of food is packed; (zi) ""premises" include any shop; stall, hotel, restaurant, airline services and food canteens, place or vehicle or vessel where any article of food is sold or manufactured or stored for sale; (zj) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the Central Government or the State Government; as the case may be under this Act; (zk) "primary food" means an article of food, being a produce of agriculture or horticulture O animal husbandry and dairying O aquaculture in its natural form; resulting from the growing, raising, cultivation, picking, harvesting, collection or catching in the hands of a person other than a farmer Or fisherman; (zl) " prohibition order" means an order issued under
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