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Prevention of Food Adulteration Act,1954
Section 1-25
Section 1
Section 2
Section 2-A
Section 3
Section 3-A
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 14
Section 14-A
Section 15
Section 16
Section 16-A
Section 17
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
Section 20-A
Section 20-AA
Section 21
Section 22
Section 22-A
Section 23
Section 24
Section 25
Section 6- Application of law relating to sea customs and powers of Customs Officers

The law for the time being in force relating to sea customs and to goods, the import of which is prohibited by section 18 of the Sea Customs Act, 1878 (8 of 1878) shall, subject to the provisions of section 16 of this Act, apply in respect of articles of food, the import of which is prohibited under section 5 of this Act, and officers of Customs and officers empowered under that Act to perform the duties imposed thereby on a Customs Collector] and other officers of Customs shall have the same powers in respect of such articles of food as they have for the time being in respect of such goods as aforesaid.
Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), the Customs Collector, or any officer of the Government authorised by the Central Government in this behalf, may detain any imported package which he suspects to contain any article of food the import of which is prohibited under section 5 of this Act and shall forthwith report such detention to the Director of the Central Food Laboratory and if, required by him, forward the package or send samples of any suspected article of food found therein to the said Laboratory.
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