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Regulation 9 Condemnation of food

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Where any food is certified by a public analyst as being food which it is an offence against regulation 4 to sell or import into England and Wales, that food may be treated for the purposes of section 9 of the Act (under which food may be seized and destroyed on the order of a justice of the peace) as being unfit for human consumption.