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Part 1 · Preliminary

9. Meaning of “handling” food

In this Act, “handling”, in relation to food, includes any one or more of the following activities:

(a)

preparing or manufacturing the food;

(b)

processing the food;

(c)

storing, packing or labelling the food;

(d)

transporting or delivering the food;

(e)

displaying the food;

(f)

dishing up or plating the food;

(g)

serving the food;

(h)

supervising the performance of any activity in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) by another individual;

(i)

any other activity that is prescribed by the Minister, by order in the Gazette, for the purposes of this section.

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Part 2

Strengthening Resilience of Food Supplies in Singapore

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Part 3

Import, Export and Transhipment

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Part 4

Food Businesses

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Part 5

Defined Food and Pre-Market Approval

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Part 6

Provision of Non-Packaged Drinking Water

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Part 7

Food Safety and Sustainable Primary Production Measures

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Part 8

Offences Relating to Food Safety

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Part 9

Food and Health Promotion

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Part 10

Misleading or Deceptive Conduct and Other Marketing Offences

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Part 11

Certain Agri-Food Production Inputs

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Part 12

Appeals

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Part 13

Monitoring and Enforcement

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Part 14

Administration

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Part 15

Regulations and Codes

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Part 16

Miscellaneous

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Part 17

Amendments to Other Acts and Final Provisions

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Schedules

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