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Article L1525-5 of the French Public Health Code

The penalties provided for in article L. 1525-4 are doubled:

1° If the offences provided for in the said article have resulted in the use of the goods being dangerous to human health;

2° If the offence or attempted offence provided for in article L. 1525-5 have been committed:

a) Either using false or inaccurate weights, measures and other instruments;

b) Or using manoeuvres or procedures designed to distort the operations of analysis or assay, weighing or measuring, or designed to fraudulently alter the composition, weight or volume of the goods, even before these operations;

c) Or finally using fraudulent indications designed to make people believe in a previous and accurate operation.

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Article L1525-5

Les peines prévues à l’article L. 1525-4 sont portées au double :

1° Si les délits prévus audit article ont eu pour conséquence de rendre l’utilisation de la marchandise dangereuse pour la santé de l’homme ;

2° Si le délit ou la tentative de délit prévus à l’article L. 1525-5 ont été commis :

a) Soit à l’aide de poids, mesures et autres instruments faux ou inexacts ;

b) Soit à l’aide de manœuvres ou procédés tendant à fausser les opérations de l’analyse ou du dosage, du pesage ou du mesurage, ou tendant à modifier frauduleusement la composition, le poids ou le volume des marchandises, même avant ces opérations ;

c) Soit enfin à l’aide d’indications frauduleuses tendant à faire croire à une opération antérieure et exacte.

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