Food Hygiene Regulations, 1950.

Regulations to regulate the hygienic aspect of food businesses. Food business means the manufacture, preparation, importation, storage, distribution or exposure for sale of food intended for sale for human consumption but does not include the preparation, storage, distribution, sale or exposure for sale of raw fruit, raw vegetables, dairy produce or eggs by the producer of such produce. The 59 regulations are divided into 6 Parts: Preliminary and general (I); Food unfit for human consumption (Chapters: Sale of Unfit Food; Importation of Unfit Food; Inspection of Articles of Food, Sampling, etc)(II); Food premises and stalls. Transport and handling of food (III); Registration of food premises (IV); Ice cream (V); Shellfish (VI). Regulation 14 places restrictions on the importation of meat and meat products. Every health authority shall cause to be kept in the form FHB in the Schedule hereto or a form to the like effect a register, to be known as the Register of Food Premises (reg. 39).