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4.1. General ProvisionsThe exercise of sanitary control established in the LGS is applied to the following areas:a) Processing, 4 importation, and exportation of food, non-alcoholic beverages, alcoholicbeverages, perfumery, beauty and bath products, tobacco, as well as rawmaterials, and, if applicable, additives used in their preparation;b) Processing, use, maintenance, importation, exportation, and final disposal of medicalequipment, prostheses, orthotics, functional aids, diagnostic agents, odontologicuse materials, surgical and healing materials, and hygienic products;c) Processing, use, importation, exportation, application, and final disposal of pesticides,plant nutrients, and substances toxic or hazardous to health, as well as theraw materials used in their preparation.182C H A P T E R XIn particular, four main processes are covered:a) The preparation of products subject to sanitary regulation;b) The authorization for establishments that require a sanitary authorization;c) The authorization for the importation of certain products;d) The authorization for the sale or supply of products.4.2. Product Preparation ProcessThe LGS establishes that the product preparation process must be carried out underhygienic conditions, without adulteration, 5 contamination, 6 or alteration 7 and in accordancewith the provisions of the LGS.__________4For purposes of the LGS, process is understood as the group of activities related to the obtaining, elaboration,manufacture, preparation, conservation, mixing, conditioning, packaging, manipulation, transportation,distribution, storage, and sale or supply to the public of the products referred to by the LGS.5A product is considered adulterated when:a) Its nature or composition do not correspond to what is written on its label, in its advertising, stated whenit is sold or supplied, or when its nature or composition do not correspond to the specifications of itsauthorization;b) It has suffered treatment that conceals its alteration or defects in its processing or in the sanitary qualityof the raw materials used are covered up.6The product or raw material is considered contaminated when it contains microorganisms, hormones, staticbacteria, pesticides, radioactive particles, or foreign matter, as well as any other substance in quantities thatsurpass the permissible limits established by the SSA.7A product or raw material is considered altered when, from the action of any cause, it has suffered modificationsin its intrinsic composition that:a) Reduce it nutritive or therapeutic power;b) Make it unhealthy;c) Modify its characteristics, if they have repercussions on their sanitary quality.