South Australian Consolidated Acts

FOOD ACT 2001 - SECT 20

20—Sale of unfit equipment or packaging or labelling material

        (1)         A person must not sell equipment that if used for the purposes for which it was designed or intended to be used—

            (a)         would render, or be likely to render, food unsafe; or

            (b)         would put other equipment, or would be likely to put other equipment, in such a condition that, if the other equipment were used for the purposes for which it was designed or intended to be used, it would render, or be likely to render, food unsafe.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         If the offender is a body corporate—$250 000.

            (b)         If the offender is a natural person—$50 000.

        (2)         A person must not sell packaging or labelling material that if used for the purposes for which it was designed or intended to be used would render, or be likely to render, food unsafe.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         If the offender is a body corporate—$250 000.

            (b)         If the offender is a natural person—$50 000.