Singapore legislation
Regulation 9
of Wholesome Meat and Fish (Processing Establishments and Cold Stores) Rules
Regulation 9
Power of Director-General to issue directives
Subregulation 1
The Director-General may, from time to time, issue to licensees such written directives as he thinks necessary for the proper control and management of licensed processing establishments or cold stores.
Subregulation 2
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Director-General may issue written directives —
regulating the operation or functioning of licensed processing establishments or cold stores;
requiring licensees to implement such quality assurance programmes as the Director-General thinks fit;
prescribing standards to regulate the exposure of meat products or fish products to microbial and chemical contaminants;
regulating the manner in which any meat product or fish product that has been processed in a licensed processing establishment is packed and labelled;
regulating the use of processing ingredients and any substance or material used in connection with the marking, tagging, packing or labelling of meat products or fish products in a licensed processing establishment or cold store;
prohibiting the keeping or use in a licensed processing establishment or cold store of any meat product, fish product or processing ingredient that is, or that the Director-General has reasonable cause to believe to be, adulterated, contaminated or otherwise unfit for human consumption;
prohibiting the keeping or use in a licensed processing establishment or cold store of any harmful substance; and
requiring the licensee to furnish at such times and in such manner as the Director-General may specify, such information as the Director-General may require relating to the operation and functioning of the licensed processing establishment or cold store.
Subregulation 3
Where the Director-General has reason to believe that any meat product or fish product which has been processed in a licensed processing establishment is adulterated, contaminated or otherwise unfit for human consumption, the Director-General may issue a written directive to the licensee of the processing establishment requiring the licensee to forthwith recall all stocks and to cease the sale, supply or distribution, of the meat product or fish product.
Subregulation 4
Any licensee who, without lawful excuse, fails to comply with any written directive issued under this rule shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.