WHAT IS ADULTERATED FOOD?
An article of food shall be deemed to be adulterated – a. if the article sold by a vendor is not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser or which it purports to be; b. if the article contains any substance affecting its quality or of it is so processed as to injuriously affect its nature, substance or quality; c. if any inferior or cheaper substance has been substituted wholly or partly for the article, or any constituent of the article has been wholly or partly abstracted from it, so as to affecting its quality or of it is so processed as to injuriously affect its nature, substance or quality; d. if the article had been prepared, packed or kept under insanitary conditions whereby it has become contaminated or injurious to health; e. if the article consists wholly or in part of any filthy, putrid, disgusting, rotten, decomposed or diseased animal or vegetable substance or being insect-infested, or is otherwise unfit for human consumption; f. if the article is obta