The Department of Health and its duly authorized representatives
shall, in the performance of any duty imposed by this chapter or by
any other applicable statute or ordinance, or rule or regulation thereunder,
have full access to any premises or place, container or conveyance
used in the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage,
transportation, handling, distribution or sale of any food or drug
and may examine and open any package or container which is believed
to contain any food or drug manufactured, sold, exposed for sale or
had in possession with intent to sell in violation of this chapter
or of any other applicable statute or ordinance, or rule or regulation
thereunder, and inspect the contents thereof and take therefrom samples
for analysis.
Every person who shall distribute or sell, or offer for distribution
or sale, or have in his/her possession with intent to distribute or
sell any food or drug, shall, on request and tender of the value thereof
by the Department of Health or its duly authorized representative,
deliver so much thereof to the Department as may be requested as a
sample. If such request is not immediately complied with, the Department
of Health or its duly authorized representative may demand and take
so much of the food or drug as deemed necessary, tendering to the
person in charge what the said Department or its said representative
deems to be the reasonable value thereof.
Whenever the Health Officer or any official representative of
the Department of Health finds or has probable cause to believe that
any food or any substance intended to be used in the preparation of
food, which is being offered or exposed for sale or held in possession
with intent to sell within the Township, is unfit for human use or
likely to cause any illness or transmit any disease, the Department
of Health shall order the same denatured, removed and disposed of.
In such case, it shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge
of such substance to remove same immediately and dispose of it at
his/her own expense, according to the direction of the Department
of Health. In case of the failure of the owner or person in charge
to immediately remove and dispose of such substance as ordered, the
same shall be caused to be denatured, removed and disposed of by the
Department of Health at the expense of said owner or person in charge.
