Conditions for Sale

• Every utensil or container used for manufacturing, preparing or containing any food or ingredient of food intended for sale shall be kept at all times in good order and repair and in clean and sanitary condition. No such utensil or container shall be used for any other purpose.
• No person shall use for manufacturing, preparing or storing any food or ingredient of food intended for sale any utensil or container which is imperfectly enameled or imperfectly tinned or which is made of such materials or is in such a state as to be likely to injure such food or render it noxious.
• Every utensil or container containing any food or ingredient of food intended for sale shall at all times be either provided with a tight fitting cover or kept closed or covered by a properly fitting lid or by a closed fitting cover or gauze, net or other material of a texture sufficiently fine to protect the food completely from dust, dirt and flies and other insects.
• No utensil or container used for the manufacture or preparation of or containing any food or ingredient of food intended for sale shall be kept in any place in which such utensil or container is likely by reason of impure air or dust or any offensive, noxious or deleterious gas or substance or any noxious or injurious emanations, exhalation, or effluvium, to be contaminated and thereby render the food noxious.
• A utensil or container made of the following materials or metals, when used in the preparation, packaging and storing of food shall be deemed to render it unfit for human consumption.
  • Containers which ar rusty :
  • Enamelled containers which have become chipped and rusty
  • Copper or brass containers which are not properly tinned etc.
    No person shall sell compounded aforesaid exceeding one kilogram in weight except in sealed container with a label.
    No person shall sell Hingra without a label on its container under which is printed a declaration in the form specified in Rule 42.
    No person shall sell Titanium dioxide (food grade)except under Indian Standards Institution Certification Mark.
    No person shall sell sealed fat for any other purpose except for Bakery and Confectionery and it shall be refined and shall bear the label declaration as laid down in rule 42. (T)
• Edible common salt or iodides salt or iron fortified common salt containing anticking agent shall be sold only in a package which shall bear the label as specified in sub-rule (V) of rule 42
• No person shall sell lactic acid, for use in food except under Indian Standards Institution Marks
• The Katha prepared by 'Bhatti method shall be conspicuously marked as "Bhatti Katha."
• All edible oils, except coconut oil, imported in crude, raw or unrefined form shall be subjected to the process of refining before sale for human consumption. Such oils shall bear a label declaration as laid down in Rule 42 (W)
• Dried Glucose Syrup containing sulfur-dixide exceeding 40 ppm shall be sold only in a package which shall bear the label as specified in sub-rule (X) of rule 42