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LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 24 Chap. 30:01 Food and Drugs SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION FOOD AND DRUGS REGULATIONS ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS REGULATION PART I 1. Citation. 2. Requirements prescribed by Regulation. INTERPRETATION 3. Interpretation. 4. Request to Director. INSPECTORS 5. Functions, duties, responsibilities of Inspectors. 6. Certificate of appointment. 7. Taking of photographs. IMPORTATIONS 8. Taking samples and detention pending further examination. 9. Violation of Act or Regulations and re-labelling or re-conditioning of food, drug, cosmetic or device. 10. Issue of certificate. SAMPLING 11. Taking a sample, notification of intention and division of sample. 12. Division an interference and objection to procedure by owner or person. CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS 13. Certificate of Analysis. PART II 14. Definition of terms in Part II. 15. Offence to sell unlabelled food. LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Food and Drugs Chap. 30:01 25 Food and Drugs Regulations [Subsidiary] REGULATION 16. Labelling of package. 16A. Labelling of breastfeeding substitutes. 16B. Labelling of beverages containing alchohol. 16C. Labelling of brewery products. 17. Declaration of net contents not required on certain labels. 18. List of ingredients not required on certain labels. 19. Declaration not required. 20. Declaration not required to indicate presence of flavouring. 21. Dried or dehydrated products. 22. Food from vending machine. 23. Non-application of regulation 16. 24. Standard for a food. 25. Name of designation given to standard, grade or definition. 26. Adulteration of food. 27. Non-adulteration. 28. Contents of package. 29. Display of information on label. 30. First Schedule. 31. Offence. PART III—DRUGS GENERAL 32. Definition of terms in Part III. 33. Labelling of drug. 34. Contents of label. 35. Label on bulk package. 36. Drug sold on prescription. 37. Packing cases. 38. Name and proportion of drug to be stated on label. 39. Label to contain all information. 40. Information clearly and prominently displayed. 41. Reference to drug. 42. Drug to conform to standard. L.R.O. 1/2006 LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 26 Chap. 30:01 Food and Drugs [Subsidiary] Food and Drugs Regulations ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS—Continued REGULATION 43. Parenteral, Third Schedule or controlled drugs. 44. Exemption from sections 4(1). 45. Drug in form of tablet. 46. Variations from declared quantity. 47. Caution on label of drug. 48. Third Schedule or a controlled drug not to be advertised. 49. Prohibition. 50. Second Schedule. 51. Contravention or non-compliance with Part III. 52. Date Regulations became effective. FIRST SCHEDULE. SECOND SCHEDULE. THIRD SCHEDULE. LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Food and Drugs Ch. 30:01 27 [Subsidiary] *FOOD AND DRUGS REGULATIONS 130/1964. [94/1969 53/1972 52/1974 made under section 25 105/1974 9/1985]. PART I 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Food and Drugs Citation. Regulations. 2. These Regulations, where applicable, prescribe the standards Requirements prescribed by of composition, strength, potency, purity, quality, or other property Regulation. of the article of food, drug, cosmetic, or device, to which they refer. INTERPRETATION 3. In these Regulations— Interpretation. [94/1969]. “acceptable method” means a method of analysis or examination indicated by the Minister as acceptable for use in the administration of the Act; “cubic centimetre” and its abbreviation “cc” shall be deemed to be interchangeable with the term “millilitre” and its abbreviation “ml” ; “Director” means the Chief Chemist and Director of Food and Drugs; “inner label” means the label on or affixed to an immediate container of a food, drug, cosmetic, or device; “lot number” or “batch number” means any combination of letters or figures, or both, by which any food or drug can be traced in manufacture and identified in distribution; “official method” means the method of analysis or examination designated by the Minister by Notification for use in the administration of the Act; “outer label” means the label on or affixed to the outside of a package of a food, drug, cosmetic, or device. 4. The Director shall, upon request— Request to Director. (a) furnish copies of official methods; and [94/1969]. (b) indicate that a method submitted to him for his ruling is acceptable or otherwise. *These Regulations have been further amended by LNs 111/1986; 49/1987; 37/1991; 72/1996; 192/1999; 199/1999; 118/2003. L.R.O. 1/2006 LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 28 Chap. 30:01 Food and Drugs [Subsidiary] Food and Drugs Regulations INSPECTORS Functions, 5. (1) Inspectors shall perform the functions and duties, and duties, responsibilities carry out the responsibilities, prescribed by the Act, these of Inspectors. Regulations and the Minister. (2) The authority of an inspector extends to and includes the whole of Trinidad and Tobago. Certificate of 6. A certificate that a person has been appointed as an appointment. Form A. inspector shall be in the form set out as Form A in the Third Third Schedule. Schedule and shall be signed by the Minister and the person appointed. Taking of 7. (1) An inspector may take photographs of premises and photographs. articles as may be relevant to the administration of the Act or these Regulations, in so far as they apply to unsanitary conditions. (2) For the purposes of subregulation (1), the expression “articles” includes— (a) food, drugs, cosmetics, and devices, and anything used for the manufacture, preparation, preservation, packaging or storing of such articles; and (b) any labelling or advertising material. IMPORTATIONS Taking samples 8. (1) An inspector may examine, take samples of, and detain and detention pending further pending further examination, any food, drug, cosmetic, or device, examination. imported into Trinidad and Tobago but not delivered out of the charge of Customs. (2) Where a sample of a food, drug, cosmetic, or device is taken, the inspector shall, as soon as may be practicable thereafter, submit the sample to an analyst for examination or analysis. Violation of Act 9. (1) Subject to subregulation (2), where, as a result of an or Regulations and re-labelling examination or analysis of a sample of a food, drug, cosmetic, or or re-conditioning device, an analyst reports that the food, drug, cosmetic, or device of food, drug, cosmetic or would, if sold in Trinidad and Tobago, constitute a violation of the device. Act or of these Regulations, the food, drug, cosmetic, or device shall not be admitted into Trinidad and Tobago for use as a food, LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Food and Drugs Chap. 30:01 29 Food and Drugs Regulations [Subsidiary] drug, cosmetic, or device, as the case may be, and the inspector shall send a report of the analysis or examination to the Comptroller of Customs and a copy to the importer. (2) Where a food, drug, cosmetic, or device, sought to be admitted into Trinidad and Tobago would, if sold in Trinidad and Tobago, constitute a violation of the Act or of these Regulations, the food, drug, cosmetic, or device may be admitted into Trinidad and Tobago for the purpose of re-labelling or re-conditioning under the supervision of an inspector in compliance with such written conditions as may be specified in the report of an analyst, and where the re-labelling or re-conditioning is not satisfactorily carried out within three months after the report is made, or such lesser period as may be specified in the report, the food, drug, cosmetic, or device shall be exported, and, if not exported within a further period of three months, are forfeited to the State and may be disposed of as the Minister may direct; but the Minister may extend the time for complying with conditions or for exporting the said goods. 10. A certificate required under section 32(2) of the Act shall Issue of be a certificate in the English Language issued by the official certificate. body or Government Department having authority to issue the certificate in the country in which the article of food, drug, cosmetic, or device was manufactured or produced; and where no official body or Government Department has authority to issue such a certificate, the certificate may be issued by any person acceptable to the Minister. SAMPLING 11. When taking a sample pursuant to section 21 of the Act, Taking a sample, an inspector shall, after procuring a suitable quantity of the article notification of intention and in question and paying for the same the usual price therefor, notify division of the owner thereof or the person from whom the sample was sample. obtained of his intention to submit a sample thereof to an analyst for analysis or examination, and (a) if the owner or the person from whom the sample L.R.O. 1/2006 LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 30 Chap. 30:01 Food and Drugs [Subsidiary] Food and Drugs Regulations was obtained, demands it, but not otherwise, then and there divide the quantity into three parts, and shall— (i) cause each of the three parts to be marked and sealed in such manner as the nature of such sample will permit; (ii) deliver one of the parts to the owner or person from whom the sample was obtained, or leave the same upon the premises wherein the sample was obtained; and (iii) retain one of the parts for future comparison or verification, and shall submit the third part to the analyst for analysis or examination; (b) if no demand is made for the division of the sample into three parts, the inspector shall— (i) divide the same into two parts; (ii) cause each of those parts to be marked and sealed in such manner as the nature of the sample will permit; and (iii) retain one of the parts for future comparison or verification, and submit the other to the analyst for analysis or examination.