Singapore legislation
Regulation 17
Regulation 17
Food unfit for human consumption
Subregulation 1
No person shall bring into or prepare in or permit to be brought into or prepared in any licensed premises any food which is unsound or unfit for human consumption.
Subregulation 2
No person shall sell or have in his possession for sale any food which is not clean or which contains any matter foreign to the nature of such food.
Subregulation 3
Every person who sells any cooked food shall protect from likely contamination such food by placing the food in covered receptacles or by other effectual means.
Subregulation 4
Except where a licensee of a catering establishment prepares food at premises appointed by a consumer for that consumer’s consumption or use, no person shall sell any food that is not cooked or prepared in a licensed premises.
Subregulation 5
The Director-General or any authorised officer may require any person engaged in the sale or preparation for sale of food to produce such document or information on the source of supply of the food as the Director-General or authorised officer may require.
Subregulation 6
A person who makes any statement or furnishes any information under paragraph (5) which is false in any material particular or is misleading by reason of the omission of any material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.