Inspecting Officers

The Government may empower the Health Officers and the Food Inspectors appointed under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954*, or any class of officers in the employ of the Government or of a local authority to enter any place at any time by day or night, with or without previous notice and to inspect and seize any animal of food and any utensil or vessel used for preparing, manufacturing or containing any article of food, during manufacture, store, sale, distribution or in the course of transit of such animal or food.