( 1) The Food Inspector or Adjudicating Authority or Appeal Hearing Court shall, while sending a sample of the food for its analysis and test, send it by fulfilling the following requirements:
(a) The sample has to be attached with the form as prescribed in Schedule-4, sealed with wax and sent safely.
(b) The container or packet containing a sample of food as well as its outer cover has to clearly indicate the name and quantity of the sample food or the code number of collection, if any.
(c) A copy of the form to be sent pursuant to Clause (a) and the specimen of the wax seal put on the outer cover of the sample container have to be put in separate envelopes and sent accordingly.
(d) The lid of a container containing a sample has to be so closed that it cannot be open and leaked on the way, wrapped in a thick paper with a wrapping material, and tightened with a thread or rope, and so sealed with wax in at least Four various places 19
that the letters are clearly legible. It has to be so sealed with wax that the container cannot be opened without breaking that wax seal.
(2) 20 The chief of the Department of Food Technology and Quality control or the public analyst or the person authorized by
him/her shall examine whether the wax seal put on the cover of a sample of food received under Sub-rule (1) is in order or not, enter
records of its situation and open the cover of that sample.
(3) The sample of food received pursuant to Sub-rule (1) has to be analyzed or tested, and results thereof have to be sent to the concerned
officer or court, in the form as referred to in Schedule-4.