Nigerian Penal Code Act

Section 186 - Sale of adulterated food or drink.

Whoever sells or offers or exposes for sale an article of food or drink, with which an admixture has been fraudulently made to increase the bulk, weight or measure of such article or to conceal the inferior quality thereof, or any article of food or drink, from which any part has been intentionally abstracted so as to affect injuriously its quality, substance or nature, without notice to the purchaser, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine not exceeding one hundred naira or with both.

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