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LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 22 Chap. 30:01 Food and Drugs SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION FOOD AND DRUGS REGULATIONS ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS REGULATION 1. Citation. 2. Requirements prescribed by regulation. 3. Interpretation. 4. Request to Director. 5. Functions, duties, responsibilities of Inspectors. 6. Certificate of appointment. 7. Taking of photographs. 8. Taking samples and detention pending further examination. 9. Violation of Act or Regulations and relabelling or recondition ing of food, drug, cosmetic or device. 10. Issue of certificate. 11. Taking a sample, notification of intention and division of sample. 12. Division an interference and objection to procedure by owner or person. 13. Certificate of Analysis. 14. Definition of terms in Part II. 15. Offence to sell unlabelled food. 16. Labelling of package. 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. 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. LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Food and Drugs Chap. 30:01 23 Food and Drugs Regulations [Subsidiary} REGULATION 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. 43. Parenteral, Third Schedule or controlled drugs. 44. Exemption from s.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 Ilf, 52. Date Regulations became effective. 13WI964. FOOD AND DRUGS REGULATIONS (9411969 53/1972 52/1974 made under section 25 105119741· PART I . 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Food and Drugs Citation. Regulations. 2. These Re~~lations, where applicable,. prescri~e the stan- R==eg~ dards of composition, strength, potency, punty, quality, or other regulation. property of the article of food, drug, cosmetic, or device, to which they refer." INTERPRETATION 3. In these Regulations- Interpretation. [9411969]. "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 abbrevi ation "ml"; L.R.D. 111980 LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 24 Chap. 30:01 Food and Drugs [Subsidiary1 Food and Drugs Regulations "Director" means the Chief Chemist and Director of Food and Drugs; "inner label" means the label on or affixed to an immediate con tainer of a food, drug, cosmetic, or device; "lot number" or "batch number" means any combination of let ters 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. Request to Director. 4. The Director shall, upon request- [9411969]. (a) furnish copies of official methods; and (b) indicate that a method submitted to him for his rul ing is acceptable or otherwise. INSPECTORS Functions, 5. (1) Inspectors shall perform the functions and duties, and duties, responsibilities carry out the responsibilities, prescribed by the Act, these Regu of Inspectors. lations and the Minister. (2) The authority of an inspector extends to and includes the whole of.Trinidad and Tobago. Certificate of appointment. 6. A certificate that a person has been appointed as an inspec Form A. tor shall be in the form set out as Form A in the Third Schedule Third Schedule. and shall be signed by the Minister and the 'person appointed. Taking of photographs. 7. (1) An inspector may take photographs of premises and 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. LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Food and Drugs Chap. 30:01 25 FQQd and Drugs Regulations [Subsidiaryi IMPORTATIONS Taking samples 8. (1) An inspector may examine, take samples of, and detain and detention pending further examination, any food, drug, cosmetic, or device, pending further imported into Trinidad and Tobago but not delivered out of the examination. 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 there after, submitthe sample to an analyst for examination or analysis. 9. (1) Subject to subregulation (2), where, as a result of an Violation of A~1 or Regulations examination or analysis of a sample of a food, drug, cosmetic, or and re-Iabelling device, an analyst reports that the food, drug, cosmetic, or device ~~-conditioning if Offoodfj"drug, would, sold in Trinidad and Tobago, constitute a violation• of cosme cor the Act or of these Regulations, the food, drug cosmetic, or devioe. device shall not be admitted into Trinidad and Tobago for use as a food, 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, ifsold in Trinidad and Tobago, constitute a violation of the Actor of these Regulations, thefood, 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 notexported within it 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 orforexport ing the said goods. Issueof 10. A certificate required under section 32(2) of the Act shall certificate. be a certificate in the English Language issued by the official body or Government Department having authority to issue the certificate in the country in which the article of food, drug, cosme tic, or device was manufactured or produced; and where no offi cial body or Government Department has authority to issue such a certificate, the certificate may be issued by any person accept able to the Minister. L.R.D. 111980 LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 26 Chap. 30:01 Food and Drugs [Subsidiary) Food and Drugs Regulations SAMPliNG Takinga 11. When taking a sample pursuant to section 21 of the Act, an sample, notification of inspector shall, after procuring a suitable quantity of the article in intention and division of question and paying for the same the usual price therefor, notify sample. the owner thereof or the person from whom the sample was 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 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) ifno demand is made for the division of the sample into three parts, the inspector shall- (i) divide the same into two parts; eli) 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. Division an 12. (1) Notwithstanding regulation 11, where in the opinion interference and objection to of the inspector division of the procured quantity of a sample' procedure by owner or would interfere with analysis or examination, the inspector may, person. subject to subregulation (2), seal and submit the entire sample for analysis or examination. (2) Where the owner or person from whom the sample was obtained objects to the procedure provided for in subregulation (1) at the time the sample was obtained, and supplies at his own expense a sufficient quantity of the article, the inspector shall follow the procedure described in regulation 11.