Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954
8. Public Analysts. -
The Central Government
or the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint
such persons as it thinks fit, having the prescribed qualifications to be
public analysts for such local area as may be assigned to them by the Central
Government or the State Government as the case may be
Provided that no person who has
any financial interest in the manufacture import or sale of any article of food
shall be appointed to be a Public Analyst under this section:
1[Provided further
that different public Analysts may be appointed for different articles of
food].
1. Subs. by Act 49 of
1964.Sec. 5, for Secs. 8 and 9 (w.e. f. Ist March, 1965).