Food and Drugs Act, 1992
P.N.D.C.L.3058
"device" means an instrument or apparatus including, components, parts and accessories of it, manufactured, sold or represented for use in the diagnosis, treatment,
mitigation or prevention of a disease, disorder or abnormal physical state, or the
symptom of it in human or animal;
"drug" includes
(a) a substance included in a publication mentioned in the First Schedule,
(b) a substance or mixture of substances prepared, sold or represented for use
In
(i) the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease, disorder
or abnormal physical state, or the symptoms of it, in human or animal, or
(ii) restoring, correcting or modifying organic functions in human or animal;
"export" means export out of the Republic;
"food" includes salt and an article manufactured, sold or represented for use as
food or drink for human or animal consumption, chewing gum, water and an ingredient of
the food, drink, chewing gum or water;15
"health inspector" means a person lawfully appointed to be a health inspector or a
sanitary inspector;
."import" means import into the Republic;
"industrial purposes" means the use otherwise than for human or animal
consumption;
"label" includes a legend, work or mark attached to, included in, belonging to or
accompanying a food, drug, cosmetic, device or chemical substance;
"manufacture" with respect to food means the making or composition of a product, including its production, preparation, processing or preservation in combination
with other components, substances, ingredients or products;17
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for Health;
"package" includes a thing in which a food, drug, cosmetic, device or chemical
substance is wholly or partly placed or packed;
"premises" includes a building, hut, shed, kiosk or tent together with the land on
which it is situated and an adjoining land used in connection with it, and a vehicle,
conveyance or vessel;
"public analyst" means a person appointed by the Minister to act as an analyst for
the purposes of this Act;
15. Inserted by section 16 of the Food and Drugs (Amendment) Act, 1996 (Act 523).
16. Inserted by section 16 of the Food and Drugs (Amendment) Act, 1996 (Act 523).
17. Inserted by section 16 of the Food and Drugs (Amendment) Act, 1996 (Act 523).
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