Food and Drugs Act (Cap. 303).

The Act regulates, among other matters, the placing on the market of food, drugs including drugs for animals, and to provide for the constitution of the Food and Drugs Board. The Act consists of 34 sections divided into 5 Parts: Preliminary (I); General provisions (II); Importation and warranty (III); Administration and enforcement (IV); Legal proceedings (V).
Part I substantially contains gives interpretations. Sections 3 to 7 of Part III concern food. They prohibit the sale of poisonous, unwholesome or adultered food and deception of the public, i.e. labelling, packaging, manufacturing, selling or advertising any food in a manner that is false, misleading or deceptive, prohibit the sale of food not of the nature, substance or quality demanded, and prohibit the sale and preparation of food under insanitary conditions. Similar rules are laid down for drugs in sections 8 to 12. The importation of any article which does not comply with the provisions of this Act is likewise prohibited by section 20. The Food and Drugs Board, constituted under section 22, to advise the Minister on matters arising out of the administration of this Act and to carry out such other functions as may be assigned to it under this Act. Regulation making powers of the Minister are defined in section 23. Section 24 defines powers of authorized officers, i.e. a Medical Officer of Health, a Health Inspector, or any suitably qualified person authorized in writing by the Minister or by a local authority with the approval of the Minister for the purposes of this Act. A person directly or indirectly engaged in any trade or business connected with the sale of food, drugs, cosmetics and devices cannot be appointed Public Analyst for purposes of this Act (sect. 25). The Minister may direct any person to provide him or her with particulars regarding certain food or drug ingredients pursuant to section 28.