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Section 134 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Rules for protection of food

    

The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules regarding all or any of the following matters—
(a) the inspection of dairy stock and of animals intended for human consumption, and of dairies, stock-sheds or yards, milk-shops, milk-
vessels and slaughterhouses, and of factories, stores, shops and other places where any article of food is manufactured or prepared or kept;
(b) the taking and examination of samples of milk, dairy produce, meat or other articles of food and the removal or detention, pending examination or inquiry, of animals or articles which are suspected of being diseased or unsound or unwholesome or unfit for human consumption, and the seizure and destruction or treatment, or disposal so as not to endanger health, of any such article which is found to be unwholesome or unsound or diseased or infected or contaminated, and of diseased animals sold or intended or offered or exposed for sale for human consumption; and such rules may empower a medical officer of health, or in the case of meat a veterinary officer, to detain, seize or destroy any diseased, unsound or unwholesome article of food, but shall not confer on any other person any power beyond that of detention of such article for the purpose of examination by a medical officer of health, or in the case of meat a veterinary officer;
(c) fixing standards of cleanliness of milk, and prescribing the warning to be given to any cow-keeper, dairyman or purveyor of milk that any milk sold or kept or transmitted or exposed for sale by him has been found to be below any such standard, and the issue of orders prohibiting the sale or the keeping or exposure for sale of milk from any particular animal or animals, or requiring the closing of any dairy stock-shed or yard or milk-shop the milk from which is found, after analysis and official warning, to be below any such standard;
(d) the conveyance and distribution of milk and the labelling or marking of receptacles used for the conveyance of milk;
(e) the veterinary inspection of dairy stock, the sampling and bacteriological examination of milk and dairy produce and the prevention of the sale, or the keeping, transmission or exposure for sale, of milk from a diseased or infected animal;
(f) the duties of cow-keepers, dairymen and purveyors of milk in connexion with the occurrence of infectious disease amongst person residing or employed in or about their premises and the furnishing by them of the names and addresses of their customers, and of cow-keepers in connexion with reporting the occurrence, in animals on the premises or any dairy cattle of diseases which are communicable to man and of any disease of the udder;
(g) the inspection and examination of, and the regulation, inspection and supervision of the manufacture, preparation, storage, keeping and transmission of, any article of food intended for sale or for export, and the prohibition of the manufacture, preparation storage, keeping transmission, sale or export of any such article which is, or contains an ingredient which is, diseased or unsound or unfit for human consumption, or which has been exposed to any infection or contamination;
(h) the establishment, locality, supervision, equipment, maintenance and management of slaughterhouses and the disposal of the waste
products of slaughtering and the inspection of slaughterhouses and the animals therein, and prohibiting, restricting or regulating the slaughtering or animals;
(i) prohibiting the importation of any article of food which is not clean, wholesome, sound and free from any disease or infection or contamination, and the seizure and disposal by destruction or otherwise of any such article so imported;
(j) the preparation, manufacture or importation and the storage and sale of or trade in articles of food which are packed in air-tight receptacles or are otherwise preserved, and the marking of any such article or receptacle with the date of manufacture or preparation;
(k) prohibiting the importation, sale, possession or use of vessels which are intended to contain milk or any liquid or semi-solid article of food and which are rusty or defectively soldered or are made of material containing in any part likely to come in contact with the contents, lead or other poisonous or injurious substance in such proportion as to be likely to cause injury or danger to health, and fixing the maximum proportions of such substances which may be used in such vessels;
(l) in relation to food intended for sale or export, prescribing standards of composition, strength and quality, for the prevention of adulteration, misbranding, misdescription or reduction below a prescribed standard and for securing the sale in a pure state and in a condition which conforms with such standards.

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