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Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules

Part XV -Solvent Extracted Oils And Edible Flour

Section 67: Conditions of manufacture, stock and sale of solvent extracted oil

The manufacture, stock and sale of solvent-extracted oil shall comply with the following conditions, namely :-
(1) The oil shall be manufactured only in factories licensed for the purpose under the Solvent -extracted oil, Deoiled Meal and Edible Flour (Control) Order,1967 (hereinafter referred to as the said Order in this Part).
(2) The oil-bearing materials subject to the extraction process for the manufacture of solvent-extracted oil and the solvent used in the said process, shall conform to the standards of quality laid down in sub-clauses (7) and (8) of Clause 9 of the said Order.
(3) Only such grades and varieties of solvent -extracted oil may be manufactured, stocked or sold for the purpose of ditect human consumption as have been permitted in sub-clause (1) of Clause 9 of the said Order, and for the purpose of refining for direct human consumption or for use in the manufacture of vanaspatis have been permitted in sub-clause (2) of Clause 9 of the said Order and these oils hall conform to the appropriate standards of quality prescribed therein.
(4) The oils shall be packed and labelled in accordance with the requirements under Clause 1.1 of the said Order.
(5) The sale or movement of stock of solvent-extracted oils other than of the "refined" grade, that is to say, which has been neutralised, bleached and deodorized and conforms to the appropriate standards of quality of such oil, shall be governed by the provision,of sub-clause (3) of Clause 9 of the said Order. Such oil shall be sold or moved by the producer directly to industrial users thereof registered as such under the said Order, and not to any other person or through any third party.