1 / 9

CONSUMER ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES RELATING TO FOOD, DRUGS AND COSMETICS AND DEVICES

CONSUMER ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES RELATING TO FOOD, DRUGS AND COSMETICS AND DEVICES.

sera
Download Presentation

CONSUMER ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES RELATING TO FOOD, DRUGS AND COSMETICS AND DEVICES

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. CONSUMER ACT OF THE PHILIPPINES RELATING TO FOOD, DRUGS AND COSMETICS AND DEVICES The Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (Republic Act No. 3720) approved on June 22,1963 has been superseded by the Consumer Act of the Philippines. Chapter II of the Act declares that it is the policy of the State to protect the health of the consumer by ensuring a safe and good quality of food, drugs, cosmetics and devices and to regulate their manufacture, sale, distribution and advertisement.

  2. PROHIBITED ACTS • The manufacture, importation, exportation, sale offering for sale or distribution of any adulterated or misbranded food, drug, device or drug. • Refusal of manufacturer to permit entry or inspection by BFAD agents or to allow samples to be collected.

  3. 3. Giving false guarantees or undertaking. • 4. Forging, counterfeiting, simulation or falsely representing or without authority • 5. The sale, distribution or transfer of any drug or device without being registered or licensed by the Department of Health.

  4. 6. The sale of offering for sale of drugs or devices beyond their expiration date • 7. The sale and distribution of a batch drugs without batch certification. • 8. To deliver for introduction into commerce any mislabeled hazardous substance or banned hazardous substance.

  5. COMMON VIOLATIONS IN FOODS MANUFACTURE AND SALE • The Department of Health has banned the use of potassium bromate as ingredient in the making of breads because of adverse reports concerning its safety. • Use of poisonous food colors in making bagoong and other products. The BFAd has warned against the use of such dangerous dyes but manufactures continue to use them.

  6. 3. Adulteration of hot dogs and similar products by the use of fillers such as flour to add bulk. • 4. Adulteration of rice by mixing high grade varieties with lower grade varieties. • 5. Sale of poultry products injected with water to make them heavier.

  7. 6. Adulteration of hot dogs and similar products by the use of fillers such as flour to add bulk. • 7. Adulteration of rice by mixing high grade varieties with lower grade varieties.

  8. 8. Suspension of the importation of Rose Bowl canned foods from Malaysia was made by the Bureau of Customs. The BFAD said that a laboratory analysis of Rose Bowl canned squid found it “either deteriorated, decomposed or with strong offensive odor and with foreign matter inside.

  9. 9. The Government agents seized 30 million worth of mislabelled whiskey from local liquor firm. These were allegedly mislabelled Johnny Walker Whiskey. 10. FDA Case No. 54-75 Salvador Matienzo claimed that he bought a bottle of Royal Tru-Orange which contained foreign matter

More Related