A Legislative History of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Its Amendments, Volume 2

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U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, 1979 - Cosmetics

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Page 204 - misbranded," as used herein, shall apply to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular...
Page 429 - ... an accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count...
Page 275 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 132 - If it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a definition and standard of identity has been prescribed...
Page 261 - ... material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the article to which the labeling relates under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling thereof or under such conditions of use as are customary or usual.
Page 219 - In the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now or from time to time hereafter known as articles of food under their own distinctive names and not an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, if the name be accompanied on the same label or brand with a statement of the place where said article has been manufactured or produced. Second. In the case of articles labeled, branded or tagged so as to plainly indicate that they are compounds, imitations or blends,...
Page 596 - If any substance has been mixed or packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 32 - The proceedings of such libel cases shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any such case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States.
Page 456 - ... 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.
Page 18 - 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...

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