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STANFORD LAW LIBRARY

CONTENTS

Public Law No. 384, 59th Congress, approved June 30, 1906. For prevent-

ing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded

or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, for

regulating traffic therein..

Public Law No. 538, 71st Congress, approved July 8, 1930. An act to
amend section 8 of the act approved June 30, 1960-

Public Law No. 451, 73d Congress, approved June 22, 1934. An act to

amend the act of June 30, 1906, relating to seafood..

Public Law No. 346, 74th Congress, approved August 27, 1935. To amend

section 10A of the Federal Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, relating

to sea food..........

Public Law No. 717, 75th Congress, approved June 25, 1938. Federal Food,

Drug, and Cosmetic Act_

Public Law No. 151, 76th Congress, approved June 23, 1939. To provide

for temporary postponement of the operations of certain provisions of

the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act_.

Public Law No. 366, 77th Congress, approved December 22, 1941. To

amend the act of June 25, 1938, as amended, by providing for the certifi-

cation of batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of insulin.........

Public Law No. 139, 79th Congress, approved July 6, 1945. To amend the

act of June 25, 1938, as amended, by providing for the certification of

batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of any kind of penicilin or

any derivative thereof..

Public Law No. 16, 80th Congress, approved March 10, 1947. To amend

the act of June 25, 1938, as amended, by providing for the certification of

batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of any kind of streptomycin,

or any derivative thereof.

XPublic Law No. 749, 80th Congress, approved June 24, 1948. To amend

sections 301(k) and 304(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic

Act, as amended..

Public Law No. 164, 81st Congress, approved July 13, 1949. To amend

the act of June 25, 1938, as amended, by providing for the certification

of batches of drugs composed wholly or partly of any kind of aureomycin,

chloramphenicol, and bacitracin

Public Law No. 360, 81st Congress, approved October 18, 1949. To amend

section 801 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended__

Public Law No. 215, 82d Congress, approved October 25, 1951. To amend

sections 303 (c) and 503 (b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,

as amended__

Public Law No. 201, 83d Congress, approved August 5, 1953. To amend

sections 502(1) and 507 of the act of June 25, 1938, in order to identify

the drug known as aureomycin by its chemical name, chlortetracycline

Public Law No. 217, 83d Congress, approved August 7, 1953. To amend

the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, so as to protect the public

health and welfare by providing certain authority for factory inspection

Public Law No. 335, 83d Congress, approved April 15, 1954. To amend

sections 401 and 701 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act so

as to simplify the procedures governing the establishment of food

standards.

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Public Law No. 905, 84th Congress, approved August 1, 1956. To amend sections 401 and 701 (e) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act so as to simplify the procedures governing the prescribing of regulations under certain provisions of such act......

Public Law No. 250, 85th Congress, approved August 31, 1957. To amend
section 304(d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, with
respect to the disposition of certain imported articles which have been
seized and condemned__

Public Law No. 929, 85th Congress, approved September 6, 1958. Food
Additives Amendment of 1958-

Public Law No. 2, 86th Congress, approved March 17, 1959. To amend
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to permit the temporary
listing and certification of citrus No. 2 for coloring mature oranges under
tolerances found safe by the Secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare, so as to permit continuance of established coloring practice in
the orange industry.

Public Law No. 537, 86th Congress, approved June 29, 1960. To amend
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, with respect to label
declaration of the use of pesticide chemicals on raw agricultural com-
modities which are the produce of the soil__

Public Law No. 618, 86th Congress, approved July 12, 1960. Color
Additive Amendments of 1960.

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Public Law No. 19, 87th Congress, approved April 7, 1961. Food Additives transitional Provisions Amendment of 1961_.

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Public Law No. 781, 87th Congress, approved October 10, 1962. Drug
Amendments of 1962.

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Public Law No. 625, 88th Congress, approved October 3, 1964. Food
Additives Transitional Provisions Amendment of 1964...
Public Law No. 74, 89th Congress, approved July 15, 1965. Drug Abuse
Control Amendments of 1965.

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Public Law No. 477, 89th Congress, approved June 29, 1966. To amend
section 402(d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act..
Public Law No. 399, 90th Congress, approved July 13, 1968. Animal
Drug Amendments of 1968__

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Public Law No. 639, 90th Congress, approved October 24, 1968. To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to increase the penalties for unlawful acts involving lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and other depressant and stimulant drugs__

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THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, JUNE 30, 1906, AS AMENDED AUGUST 23, 1912, MARCH 3, 1913, MARCH 4, 1913, JULY 24, 1919, JANUARY 18, 1927, AND JULY 8, 1930

AN ACT

For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture within any Territory or the District of Columbia any article of food or drug which is adulterated or misbranded, within the meaning of this act; and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed five hundred dollars or shall be sentenced to one year's imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and for each subsequent offense and conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars or sentenced to one year's imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. That the introduction into any State or Territory or the District of Columbia from any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or from any foreign country, or shipment to any foreign country of any article of food or drugs which is adulterated or misbranded, within the meaning of this act, is hereby prohibited; and any person who shall ship or deliver for shipment from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, or who shall receive in any State or Territory or the District of Columbia from any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or foreign country, and having so received, shall deliver, in original unbroken packages, for pay or otherwise, or offer to deliver to any other person, any such articles so adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act, or any person who shall sell or offer for sale in the District of Columbia or the Territories of the United States any such adulterated or misbranded foods or drugs, or export or offer to export the same to any foreign country, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for such offense be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars for the first offense, and upon conviction for each subsequent offense not exceeding three hundred dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That no article shall be deemed misbranded or adulterated within the provisions of this act when intended for export to any foreign country and prepared or packed according to the specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser when no substance is used in the preparation or packing thereof in conflict with the laws of the foreign country to which said article is intended to be shipped; but if said article shall be in fact sold or offered for sale for domestic use or consumption, then this proviso shall not exempt said article from the operation of any of the other provisions of this act.

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