3. No person shall, in respect of any food sold by him or given by him for sale to an agent, give to the purchaser or the agent a false warranty in writing.

4. (1) No person shall mix, colour, stain or powder or direct or permit any other person to mix, colour, stain or powder any food with any matter or ingredient-(a) in contravention of the rules; or(b) so as to render the food injurious to health, with intent that the same may be sold in that state. (2) No person shall keep or store for sale or sell or offer to sell any food so mixed, coloured, stained or powdered.

5. (1) No person shall, directly or indirectly, himself or by any other person, prepare, manufacture, keep or store for sale, or sell or offer to sell,-(i) any adulterated food;(ii) any misbranded food;(iii) any article of food for the sale of which a licence is required otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of the licence; or(iv) any article of food in contravention of any other provision of this Act or the rules. (2) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, prohibit or regulate the keeping, in any factory or wholesale business premises in which such articles of food as are specified in the notification are manufactured or stored, of any substance which is likely to be used as an adulterant and is so specified.

6. No person shall, directly or indirectly, himself or by any other person,-(a) prepare, manufacture, keep or store for sale, or sell or offer to sell any food which is unsound, unwholesome, injurious to health or unfit for human consumption; or(b) import or export any food in such manner or in such condition as renders it or is likely to render it injurious to health.

7. No person shall directly or indirectly, himself or by any other person,-(a) prepare, manufacture, keep or store for sale, or sell or offer to sell, any food which is not of the nature, substance or quality which it purports or is represented to be; or(b) sell or offer to sell any food which is not of the nature, substance or quality demanded.

8. No person shall keep or store for sale, or sell or offer to sell, pre-packed food unless he has complied with the rules made in this behalf.

9. No person shall import, export, prepare, manufacture, keep or store for sale, or sell or offer to sell, any food, unless the rules providing for the mode of its manufacture, processing or preparation, packaging, labelling, consignment, delivery, standard of quality or fill of containers have been complied with.

10. No person shall sell or offer to sell banaspati, margarine or charbi loose or from an open package: Provided that banaspati may be so sold or offered for sale under a licence and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in this behalf.

11. (1) Except under a licence to be granted in such manner as may be prescribed, no place shall be used-(a) for the preparation, or the manufacturing, processing, blending, preserving, refrigerating, canning or bottling of any food;(b) for the business of a wholesale dealer in banaspati, charbi, ghee, or margarine, fish oil, mustard oil, cotton seed oil or other edible oils and such other foods as may be prescribed;(c) as a creamery, dairy or bakery; or(d) as a hotel, restaurant or eating-house: Provided that the Government may exempt any specified premises or class of premises from the operation of this section. (2) A licence granted under sub-section (1) shall be valid for a period of one year unless it is earlier cancelled or is renewed in such manner and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed. (3) A licence granted under sub-section (1) may be cancelled or its renewal may be refused if -(i) the licensee fails to maintain the register referred to in section 12 or is convicted of an offence under this Act, or(ii) the premises are not maintained in such condition as may be prescribed. (4) No person shall keep or store for sale, or sell or offer to sell, any food for human consumption unless he is in possession of such identification permit as may be prescribed.

12. Every occupier of a place used for the preparation or manufacture, for the purposes of trade, of any such article of food as the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf, and every wholesale dealer or his agent who stores any such article, shall keep and maintain a register in such form as may be prescribed, and such register shall be open to inspection by the inspector.

13. (1) If a Health Officer or an Inspector has reason to suspect that any food or any vessel or utensil with which food may come in contact is likely to cause food poisoning (acute, or cumulative) by chemical or bacteriological action, he may take a sample of such food or the vessel or utensil for analysis under this Act, and if he takes a sample, give notice to the person in charge of the food that, until the result of the analysis is known, the food or any specified portion thereof shall not be used for human consumption, and shall be kept or removed in the manner specified in the notice. (2) If a Health Officer has reason to suspect that tuberculosis is likely to be caused by the consumption of milk supplied from any dairy or other source, he may, by notice to the person in charge of such dairy or source, prohibit the supply of milk from that dairy or source: Provided that where, in the case of a dairy or other source, the Health Officer is of the opinion that certain remedial measures would effectively prevent the milk supplied from that dairy or source from being the cause of tuberculosis, the Health Officer shall,-(a) while issuing a notice prohibiting the supply of milk from such dairy or source, require the person in charge thereof to carry out such remedial measures as may be specified in the notice, and(b) upon the application of the person in charge after he has carried out such remedial measures, cancel the notice. (3) If a person is, in the opinion of the local authority, suffering from any communicable disease, the local authority may, by notice to such person, prohibit him from preparing, manufacturing, selling or offering to sell any article of food for human consumption until he obtains a certificate from the Health Officer to the effect that he is free from any communicable disease and produces such certificate to the local authority. (4) A Health Officer may, by notice to any person handling articles of food in any hotel, restaurant, sweetmeat shop, or any other public eating place, require him to obtain and keep in his possession a health certificate from a Health Officer to the effect that he is free from any communicable disease and to get it renewed from year to year, till such time as he continues so to handle such articles. (5) Every person to whom a notice under this section has been given shall comply with such notice.