An authorised officer of a council may exercise such powers of procuring samples for analysis, or for bacteriological or other examination, as are conferred upon him by this section, and any such officer is in this Act called a "sampling officer".
A sampling officer may purchase samples of any food or of any substance capable of being used in the preparation of food.
A sampling officer may take a sample of any food, or of any substance capable of being used in the preparation of food, which—
Without prejudice to subsection (3), a sampling officer—
A sampling officer who under this section takes a sample of the milk of any cows at a dairy may take such steps at the dairy as may be necessary to satisfy himself that the sample is a fair sample of the milk of the cows when properly and fully milked.
Except as provided by subsection (4), or with the purchaser's consent, a sampling officer shall not take a sample of any food or substance which appears to him to have been sold by retail, either—
and nothing in this section shall authorise a sampling officer to take a sample of any food or substance in a ship (not being a home-going ship) or in any aircraft, other than food imported as part of the cargo of that ship or aircraft.
The powers of taking samples of milk which are conferred on a sampling officer by subsections (3) to (6) shall be exercisable throughout any county by an authorised officer of the county council, whether or not the council is the food and drugs authority for the whole county.