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Damaged Products or Foodstuffs.
(1) Whoever intentionally:
a) manufactures food, provisions, foodstuffs or products unfit for human consumption or goods which contain injurious or damaged ingredients, or who adulterates food or goods in such a way as to endanger public health; or
b) stores, offers for sale, exports, imports, receives or distributes such injurious products, is punishable with simple imprisonment for not less than six months, or, in serious cases, with rigorous imprisonment for not less than five years and fine.
(2) The punishment shall be rigorous imprisonment for not less than seven years, where the criminal:
a) has special duties of supervision or control in an undertaking of public interest belonging to the State, or let out to concession by the State; or
b) deliberately manufactures, adulterates, sells or distributes remedies, medicaments, dietetic products or tonics, not poisonous in themselves and procurable without a prescription, the defective manufacture or adulteration of which can have dangerous effects. 3) Where the crime is committed negligently, the punishment shall be simple imprisonment not exceeding six months, or fine.
