Section 10. Offense and Penalties. —

1. It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, firm, corporation or association to engage in the manufacture, importation, sale or distribution of feeds or feeding stuffs without having first registered in the Office of the Director of Animal Industry: Provided, however, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the sale or distribution of the by-products of grains, such as rice bran, rice crush, corn bran and corn crush, which are sold in their natural state as feeding stuff without having been further processed, mixed with other ingredients, or otherwise manufactured into another form.

2. Any person, partnership, corporation or association which will unlawfully use a registration number, fraudulently lessen or adulterate the feeding value of any feed or feeding stuff, or tamper with packaged feeds for fraudulent purposes, wilfully remove, alter, or efface the prescribed tags, labels, markings, or other information placed on packages of feeds or feeding stuffs, fraudulently alter or use certificates of analysis of any official analyst; wilfully obstruct, hinder, resist or in any other way oppose an inspector in the execution of his duties under this Act; make unauthorized disposition of feeds placed under detention; import, manufacture, distribute, advertise, sell, or offer for sale or possess for sale by any feed which does not conform with or contravenes the provisions of this Act; or otherwise violate any provision of this Act and the rules and regulations issued thereunder, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand pesos and not more than five thousand pesos or by imprisonment of not more than one year and one day, or by both, in the discretion of the court.