Article 298
(Adulteration of foods and medicines)
1. A penalty of one year's to six years' imprisonment shall be imposed as punishment upon anyone who adulterates or falsifies the content of food products, drinking water, beverages or medicines intended for public use or for mass consumption, thereby effectively endangering life or placing in serious danger the physical integrity of others.
2. The same penalty shall apply to anyone who imports, sells, offers for sale, conceals, delivers or distributes the substances that have been adulterated or whose content has been falsified as referred to in the preceding paragraph, or products whose period of validity has expired, or products that have become altered, adulterated or degraded with the passage of time, thereby giving rise to the danger described in the preceding paragraph.
3. If the danger came about as a result of negligence, the penalty shall be of six months' to four years' imprisonment, or of 100 to 300 days' fine.
4. If the actions described in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article were carried out with negligence, the penalty shall be of up to three years' imprisonment or of 80 to 200 days' fine.
