Food and Drugs Act, /992
P.N.D.C.L. 3058
(b) import, manufacture, package, label, advertise, store, deliver, distribute,
trade, sell or export salt,
that is not fortified with potassium iodate in accordance with this Act.
(2) Salt is fortified where it has additives such as potassium iodate, protein, essential
amino acids, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids or any other nutritional substance
added to it to enhance its nutritional value.
(3) The Ghana Standards Board shall determine and publish in the Gazette and news
papers nationwide the standard for the fortification of salt under this Act.
(4) A person shall not label, package, or sell or advertise salt in a manner that is
likely to be mistaken for salt of the prescribed standard.
(5) This section does not apply to salt for industrial or iodation purposes.
(6) Salt for industrial purposes shall be labelled clearly to that effect and stored and
displayed separately from salt intended for human or animal consumption.5
7. Sale of food under unsanitary conditions
(I) A person who sells, prepares, packages, conveys, stores or displays for sale a food
under unsanitary conditions commits an offence.
(2) Food shall be stored and conveyed in a manner that preserves its composition,
quality and purity and minimizes the dissipation of its nutritive properties from climatic
and any other deteriorating conditions.6
8. Food unfit for human consumption
(1) A person who
(a) sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or has in possession for sale, or
(b) deposits with or consigns to any other person for the purpose of sale,
food intended for, but unfit for, human or animal consumption commits an offence.
(2) Where a food in respect of which an offence under paragraph (a) of subsection (I)
has been committed was sold to the person charged by any other person, that other person
commits an offence.
(3) Where a person is charged with an offence under paragraph (b) of subsection (I)
or under subsection (2), it is a defence for that person to prove
(a) that notice was given to the person to whom the food was sold, deposited
or consigned that the food in question was not intended for human or animal consumption,
or
5. Inserted by section 4 of the Food and Drugs (Amendment) Act, 1996 (Act 523).
6. Subsection (2) was added by section 5 of the Food and Drugs (Amendment) Act, 1996
(Act 523).
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