(1) No person shall ---
(a) sell, expose or hawk about for sale, or keep, store or prepare for sale, any animal intended for human consumption which is diseased or the flesh of any animal, which has died on account of natural causes; or
(b) sell, expose or hawk about for sale, or keep, store, manufacture or prepare for sale, any food or drug intended for human consumption which is unfit for such purpose or is unwholesome.
(2) In any prosecution under sub-section (1) the Court shall, unless and until the contrary is proved, presume --
(a) that any animal found in the possession of a person who is in the habit of keeping animals of that class for sale for human consumption, has been kept by such person for sale, and
(b) that any food or drug found in the possession of a person who is in the habit of keeping, storing, manufacturing or preparing such food or drug for sale for human consumption, has been kept, stored, manufactured or prepared by such person for sale.
Inspecting Officers
93. The Government may empower the Health Officers and the Food Inspectors appointed under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954*, or any class of officers in the employ of the Government or of a local authority to enter any place at any time by day or night, with or without previous notice and to inspect and seize any animal of food and any utensil or vessel used for preparing, manufacturing or containing any article of food, during manufacture, store, sale, distribution or in the course of transit of such animal or food.
Seizure and destruction of decomposed and unwholesome food stuff