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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY

[PART H_SEC. 3(I)] -

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

(Department of Health)

NOTIFICATIONS

New Delhi, the 8th February, 1978

G.S.R. 70(E).—Whereas certain draft of the rules further to

amend the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955. were

published by sub-section (1) of Section 23 of the Prevention of

Fdod Adulteration Act, 1954 (37 of 1954), with the notification

of the Government of India, Ministry of Health and Family

Planning (Department of Health), No. G.S.R. 64(E), dated the

8th February, 1977, at pages 181-182 of the Gazette of India

(Extraordinary), Part 11, Section 3, Sub-section (i) dated the 8th

February, 1977, inviting objections/suggestions from all persons

likely to be affected thereby till the expiry of 30 days from the

date on which the copies of the said Gazette were made

avallabe to the public;

And whereas the said Gazette was made available to the public

on the 8th February, 1977;

And whereas the objections and suggestions received from the

public on the said draft have been considered by the Central

Government;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-

section (i) of Section 23 of the said Act, the Central Government,

after consultation with the Central Committee

for

Food

Standards, hereby makes the following rules fmther to amend

the Prevention pf Food Adulteration Rules, 1955, namely :—

RULES

1.(1) These rules may be called the Prevention of Food

Adulteration (Second Amendment) Rules, 1978.

(2) They shall come into force on the 1st April 1978.

2. In the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955

(hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 2, for caluse

(c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely :—

"(c) 'Laboratory' means a Central Food Laboratory;".

Rule 3 of the said rules, shall be renumbered as sub-rule (1)

thereof and after sub-rule (1) as so renumbered, the following

sab-rule shall be inserted, namely :—

"(2) The Laboratory specified in column (1) of the Table

below shall carry out the functions entrusted to it by the Act

or these rules in respect of the local areas specified in the

corresponding entry in column (2) thereof.

TABLE

Name of the Central Food

Laboratory

(1)

(i) The Central Food Laboratory,

Mysore-570013.

(ii) The Central Food Laboratory,

Pune-411001,

(iii) The Central Food Laboratoiy,

Ghaziabad-201001.

(iv) The Central Hood Laboiatory,

Calcutta-700016.

Local Area

(2)

The States of Andhra

Pradesh, Karnataka,

Kerala, Maharashtra

and Tamil Nadu and

the Union Territories

of Lakshadweep and

Pondicherry.

The States of Gujarat

and Madhya Pradesh,

and the Union Terri-

tories of Dadra

and

Nagar

Haveli, and

Goa

Daman

and

Diu.

The States of Haryana,

Himachal

Pradesh,

Jammu and Kashmir,

Punjab,

Rajasthan

and Uttar Pradesh and

the Union Territories

of Chandigarh

and

Delhi.

The States of Assam,

Bihar, Manipur, Mc-

ghalaya,

Nagaland,

Orissa, Tripura and

West Bengal, and the

Union

Territories

the

Andaman

and Nicobar Islands,

Arunachal

Pradesh

and Mizoram."

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G.S.R. 71(E).—The following draft of certain rules further

to amend the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, i955,

which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise

of the powers conferred hy sub-section (1) of section 23 of the

Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (37 of 1954 is hereby

published, as required by sub-section (1) of the said section

for the information of

all persons likely

to be affected

thereby and notice is hereby given thai the said draft rules

will be taken into consideration afler the expiry of 45 days

from the date on which the copies of the Gazette of India

in which this notification is published, are made available to

the public.

Any objections or suggestions received from any person

with respect to the said draft rules before the expiry of the

period

specified

will be considered by

the Central

Government.

DRAFT RULES

1. These rules may be called the Prevention

of Food

Adulteration (Amendment) Rules, 1978.

2. In the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955, to

rule 12, the following proviso shall be added, namely :—

"Provided that in case where a food inspector draws a

sample from an open container, he shall also draw

a sample from the container in original condition

of the same article having the same declaration, if

such container is available, and intimate this fact

to the public analyst".

[No. 15014/5/76-PH(F&N]

N. N. VOHRA, It. Secy.

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AND PUBLISHED BY THE CONTROLLER OF PUBLICATIONS. DELHI-110054, 1978