Section 50
Penalty for selling food not of the nature or substance or quality demanded.
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Any person who
sells to the purchaser's prejudice any food which is not in compliance with the provisions of this Act or
the regulations made thereunder, or of the nature or substance or quality demanded by the purchaser, shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding five lakh rupees:
Provided that the persons covered under sub-section (2) of section 31, shall for such non-compliance be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five thousand rupees.
Provided that the persons covered under sub-section (2) of section 31, shall for such non-compliance be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five thousand rupees.