Food Adulteration Act, 1954 is an act formulated by the government aiming at the avoidance of adulteration of food which may affect unhealthy living conditions. The act also intends to penalise the dealers who are engaged in production anr sale of contaminated food substance.
Salient features of Food Adulteration Act are :
• If the article sold by vendor is not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser.
• If the article contains any other substance which affects the substance or quality there of.
• If any inferior or cheaper substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article so as to affect the nature, substance or quality of the product.
• If any constituent of the article has been wholly or in part, extracted to affect the quality there of.
• If the article consists wholly or in part any filthy, putrefied, rotten decomposed or diseased animal or vegetable substance or is insect-infested or is otherwise unfit for human consumption.
