Food and Drugs Act

Marginal note:Prohibited sales of food

• 4 (1) No person shall sell an article of food that

  • (a) has in or on it any poisonous or harmful substance;

  • (b) is unfit for human consumption;

  • (c) consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, disgusting, rotten, decomposed or diseased animal or vegetable substance;

  • (d) is adulterated; or

  • (e) was manufactured, prepared, preserved, packaged or stored under unsanitary conditions.

• Marginal note:Exemption

  (2) A food does not have a poisonous or harmful substance in or on it for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) — or is not adulterated for the purposes of paragraph (1)(d) — by reason only that it has in or on it a pest control product as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Pest Control Products Act, or any of its components or derivatives, if the amount of the pest control product or the components or derivatives in or on the food being sold does not exceed the maximum residue limit specified under section 9 or 10 of that Act.