law: Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954
  8. Public Analysts. -
  
  
  The Central Government
  
  or the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint
  
  such persons as it thinks fit, having the prescribed qualifications to be
  
  public analysts for such local area as may be assigned to them by the Central
  
  Government or the State Government as the case may be
  Provided that no person who has
  
  any financial interest in the manufacture import or sale of any article of food
  
  shall be appointed to be a Public Analyst under this section:
  1[Provided further
  
  that different public Analysts may be appointed for different articles of
  
  food].
  1. Subs. by Act 49 of
  
  1964.Sec. 5, for Secs. 8 and 9 (w.e. f. Ist March, 1965).