Public Health Act 851 Interpretations Flashcards
(31 cards)
Article
Includes products regulated under this Part, things used for manufacturing regulated products, and labeling or advertising materials for food, drugs, herbal medicine, cosmetics, medical devices, or household chemical substances.
Authorised officer
A person authorized to perform functions under this Part by the Chief Executive Officer, the Minister, a District Assembly, or the Authority.
Example: Health inspectors are often authorized officers.
Codex
Standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and recommendations issued by the Codex Alimenterius Commission.
Container
Includes receptacles such as bottles, jars, boxes, packets, sachets, etc., for regulated products.
Cosmetic
Substances or mixtures for cleansing, improving, or altering complexion, skin, hair, etc., and deodorants and perfumes.
Court
A court of competent jurisdiction.
Drugs
- a substance referred to in a publication mentioned in the 4th Schedule,
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a substance or mixture of substances prepared, sold or represented for use in
(i) the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease, disorder of abnormal physical state or the symptoms of it, in man or animal, or
(ii) restoring, correcting or modifying organic functions in man or animal, and - nutritional supplements
Device
An instrument or apparatus for diagnosing, treating, mitigating, or preventing diseases or disorders in humans or animals.
Export
Taking out of the Republic.
Food
Includes water, food products, live animals, live plants, substances for human or animal consumption, ingredients, additives, chewing gum, etc.
Health inspector
A person appointed to be a health inspector or a sanitary inspector.
Herbal medicinal product
Plant-derived material preparations with therapeutic benefits containing ingredients from plants or organic/animal origin.
Homeopathy
An alternative medicine system based on treating patients with minute quantities of substances that produce symptoms of the disease.
Household chemical substance
Substances for domestic or office use as germicides, antiseptics, disinfectants, pesticides, etc.
Industrial purposes
Use other than for human or animal consumption.
Insanitary conditions
Conditions that might contaminate regulated products with dirt or filth or render them injurious to health.
Manufacture
Operations involved in the production, preparation, processing, packaging, labeling, etc., of regulated products.
Definition of ‘manufacture’
includes the operations involved in the production, preparation, processing, compounding, formulating, filling, refining transformation, packing, packaging, re-packaging, and labeling of products regulated under this Part.
Example: The manufacture of the food product involves various steps from processing to packaging.
Medical device
An instrument, apparatus, implement, medical equipment, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent or any other similar or related article, including a component, part or an accessory which is recognized in the official natural formulary or pharmacopoeia or a supplement to them, intended for use in the diagnosis of a disease or any other condition, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans and animals, or intended to affect the structure or function of the body of the human being or other animal and which does not achieve any of its principal intended purposes through chemical action within the body of the human being or any other animal and which is not dependent on being metabolized for the achievement of any of its principal intended purposes.
Definition of ‘Minister’
means the Minister responsible for Health.
Example: The Minister announced new healthcare policies.
Definition of ‘naturopathy’
means a system of the treatment of a disease by seeking to assist natural recovery.
Example: The naturopathy clinic focuses on holistic healing methods.
Definition of ‘package’
means in relation to a product regulated under this Part, a box, packet or any other article in which one or more primary containers of products regulated under this Part is or are to be enclosed in one or more other boxes, packets or articles in question, the collective number of them.
Example: The package contains multiple smaller boxes of the product.
Definition of ‘person’
includes a media house for purposes of advertisements.
Example: The person responsible for the advertisement campaign is from a media house.
Definition of ‘premises’
includes land, buildings, structures, basements, and vessels and in relation to a building, includes a part of a building and the cartilage, forecourt, yard or place of storage used in connection with the building or part of the building and in relation to a vessel, includes a ship, boat, an aircraft, a carriage or receptacle of any kind whether open or closed.
Example: The premises of the factory were inspected for compliance with safety regulations.
