Section 51
Penalty for sub-standard food.
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 whether by himself or by any other person on
his behalf manufactures for sale or stores or sells or distributes or imports any article of food for human
consumption which is sub-standard, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five lakh rupees.