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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 1

1.(1) A person shall not add any substance to food, use any substance as an
ingredient in the preparation of food, abstract any constituent from food, or
subject food to any other process or treatment, so as (in any such case) to
render the food injurious to health, with intent that the food shall be sold
for human consumption in that state.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1968 c.67 s.135(4) sch.8

(3) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not

(a)sell for human consumption, offer, expose or advertise for sale for
human consumption, or have in his possession for the purpose of such sale, any
food rendered injurious to health by means of any operation described in
sub-section (1); or

Para.(b) rep. by 1968 c.67 s.135(4) sch.8

(4) A person who contravenes any of the foregoing provisions of this section
shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

(5) In determining for the purposes of this Act whether an article of food is
injurious to health, regard shall be had not only to the probable effect of
that article on the health of a person consuming it, but also to the probable
cumulative effect of articles of substantially the same composition on the
health of a person consuming such articles in ordinary quantities.

(6) In any prosecution under this section for an offence consisting of the
advertisement for sale of any food..., it shall be a defence for the person
charged to prove that, being a person whose business it is to publish, or
arrange for the publication of, advertisements, he received the advertisement
for publication in the ordinary course of business, and did not himself make,
or cause to be made, any material alteration in the substance of that
advertisement.

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