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No poison may be sold except in containers which comply with the requirements
of the Rules,
Certain specified poisons must not be sold by any person other than the
listed shopkeeper himself, or a responsible deputy nominated by him to the
local authority.
The sale of certain specified poisons may be made only to persons satisfying
the prescribed qualifications and must be entered in a Poisons Book to be
kept by the listed seller and to be available for inspection by the local
authority.
Arrangements for storage must be satisfactory and in compliance with the
prescribed methods.
The names and addresses of 156 persons listed as sellers of Part II
Poisons were on the register at the end of the year. The main business
of these sellers was -
Grocer 109
Hardware Store 29
Drug Store 9
Hairdresser 2
Disinfectant manufacturer 1
Disinfectant merchant 2
Mill furnisher 1
Soap manufacturer 1
Seed merchant 1
Turpentine Bottlers 1
PHARMACY AND MEDICINES ACT, 1941. A Pood and Drugs Authority has power to
enforce the following provisions of this Act
SECTION 8, prohibits the publication of advertisements relating to certain
diseases.
SECTION 9, prohibits the nublication of any advertisement relating to
abortion. (Prosecutions for contravention of these sections cannot be
instituted without the consent of the Attorney General or Solicitor General),
SECTION 11, (Disclosure of composition of medicines) provides that no
person shall-
(a) sell by retail any article consisting of or comprising a substance
recommended as a medicine or
(b) supply any such article as a sample for the purpose of inducing
persons to buy by retail the substance of which it consists or which
it comprises;
unless there is written so as to be clearly legible on the article or a label
affixed thereto,
(i) the appropriate designation of the substance so recommended, or of
each of the active constituents thereof, or of each of the ingre
dients of which it has been compounded and
(ii) in a case where the appropriate designation of each of the active
constituents or the ingredients is written as aforesaid, the
appropriate quantitative particulars of the constituents or
ingredients
This subsection does not apply to any article made up and supplied for the
use of a particular person, being an article prescribed by reference to the
needs of that person.
A summary of the work of sanitary inspection in connection with food
Premises is as follows:-