Food and Drugs Act, 1992 🇬🇭

Ghana Repealed: 2012-10-16 1 Citing Cases

Repeal Notice

This legislation was repealed on 2012-10-16 by Public Health Act, 2012

Published in Government Gazette on 16 July 1993
Assented to on 30 December 1992
Commenced on 30 June 1996
[This is the version of this document from 16 July 1993.]
[Note: The original publication document is not available and this content could not be verified.]

AN ACT to provide standards for the sale of food and drugs and for related matters.

(1)A person commits an offence if that person sells or offers for sale a food

(a)that has in or on it a poisonous or harmful substance,

(b)that is unwholesome or unfit for human or animal consumption,

(c)that consists in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, rotten, decomposed or diseased substance,

(d)that is adulterated,

(e)that is injurious to health, or

(f)that is not of the nature, substance or quality prescribed by standards.

(2)In determining whether an article of food is injurious to hea…

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