قاعدة بيانات التشريعات

Article 178. Adulteration of Food or Drink Intended for Sale

(1) Whoever adulterates any article of food or drink or abstracts from any article of food or drink any part thereof so as to affect injuriously the quality, substance or nature, intending to sell such article as food or drink without notice to the purchaser or knowing that it is likely that the samewill be sold as food or drink without notice to the purchaser, commits an offence, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or with a fine or with both.

(2) Furthermore, if the effect of such adulteration or abstraction is to make the article noxious as food or drink, then the sentence to imprisonment shall be for a term not exceeding three years or with a fine or with both.

Article 179. Sale of Food or Drink not Corresponding to Description.

Whoever sells any article of food or drink which is not of the nature, substance and quality demanded by the purchaser or of the article which the seller represents it to be, commits an offence, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to a fine not exceeding SDG50.

Article 180. Sale of Adulterated Food or Drink.

Whoever sells or offers or exposes for sale any article of food or drink, with which any admixture has been fraudulently made to increase the bulk, weight or measure of such article or to conceal the inferior quality thereof, or any article of food or drink from which any part has been intentionally abstracted so as to affect injuriously its quality, substance or nature, without notice to the purchaser, commits an offence, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or with a fine or with both.

Article 181. Sale of Noxious Food or Drink.

Whoever sells or offers or exposes for sale any article of food or drink which has been rendered or has become noxious or is in a state unfit for human consumption, knowing or having reason to believe that the same is noxious as or unfit for food or drink, commits an offence, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or with a fine or with both.