Federal

Title 21 — Food and Drugs

757 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 611 — Devices, marks, labels, and certificates; simulations
• § 612 — Notification
• § 613 — Plans and reassessments
• § 614 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–171, title X, § 10418(a)(19) , May 13, 2002 , 116 Stat. 508
• § 615 — Inspection of carcasses, meat of which is intended for export
• § 616 — Inspectors of carcasses, etc., meat of which is intended for export; certificates of condition
• § 617 — Clearance prohibited to vessel carrying meat for export without inspector’s certificate
• § 618 — Delivery of inspectors’ certificates, and of copies
• § 619 — Marking, labeling, or other identification to show kinds of animals from which derived; separate establishments for preparation and slaughtering activities
• § 62 — Manufacture, shipment, or delivery for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce prohibited
• § 620 — Imports
• § 621 — Inspectors to make examinations provided for; appointment; duties; regulations
• § 622 — Bribery of or gifts to inspectors or other officers and acceptance of gifts
• § 623 — Exemptions from inspection requirements
• § 624 — Storage and handling regulations; violations; exemption of establishments subject to non-Federal jurisdiction
• § 625 — Inapplicability of certain requirements to catfish
• § 626 — Purchase of tags, labels, stamps, and certificates
• § 63 — Penalties; acts of agents deemed acts of principals
• § 64 — Regulations for enforcement
• § 641 — Prohibition of subchapter I inspection of articles not intended for use as human food; de­naturation or other identification prior to distribution in commerce; inedible articles
• § 642 — Recordkeeping requirements
• § 643 — Registration of business, name of person, and trade names
• § 644 — Regulation of transactions, transportation, or importation of 4–D animals to prevent use as human food
• § 645 — Federal provisions applicable to State or Territorial business transactions of a local nature and not subject to local authority
• § 661 — Federal and State cooperation
• § 671 — Inspection services; refusal or withdrawal; hearing; business unfitness based upon certain convictions; other provisions for withdrawal of services unaffected; responsible connection with business; finality of Secretary’s actions; judicial review; record
• § 672 — Administrative detention; duration; pending judicial proceedings; notification of governmental authorities; release
• § 673 — Seizure and condemnation
• § 674 — Federal court jurisdiction of enforcement and injunction proceedings and other kinds of cases; limitations of section 607(e) of this title
• § 675 — Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain persons; murder; protection of such persons
• § 676 — Violations
• § 677 — Other Federal laws applicable for administration and enforcement of chapter; location of inquiries; jurisdiction of Federal courts
• § 678 — Non-Federal jurisdiction of federally regulated matters; prohibition of additional or different requirements for establishments with inspection services and as to marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredients; recordkeeping and related requirements; concurrent jurisdiction over distribution for human food purposes of adulterated or misbranded and imported articles; other matters
• § 679 — Application of Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
• § 679a — Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel
• § 679b — Pasteurization of meat and poultry
• § 679c — Expansion of Food Safety Inspection Service activities
• § 680 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 683 — Interstate shipment of meat inspected by Federal and State agencies for certain small establishments
• § 691 — Omitted
• § 692 — Inspection extended to reindeer
• § 693 — Inspection of dairy products for export
• § 694 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 695 — Payment of cost of meat-inspection service; exception
• § 7 to 14 — Repealed. June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 1002(a) , formerly § 902(a), 52 Stat. 1059 ; renumbered § 1002(a), Pub. L. 111–31, div. A, title I, § 101(b)(2) , June 22, 2009 , 123 Stat. 1784
• § 71 to 92 — Transferred
• § 801 — Congressional findings and declarations: controlled substances
• § 801a — Congressional findings and declarations: psychotropic substances
• § 802 — Definitions
• § 803 — Repealed. Pub. L. 95–137, § 1(b) , Oct. 18, 1977 , 91 Stat. 1169
• § 811 — Authority and criteria for classification of substances
• § 812 — Schedules of controlled substances
• § 813 — Treatment of controlled substance analogues
• § 814 — Removal of exemption of certain drugs
• § 821 — Rules and regulations
• § 822 — Persons required to register
• § 822a — Prescription drug take back expansion
• § 823 — Registration requirements
• § 824 — Denial, revocation, or suspension of registration
• § 825 — Labeling and packaging
• § 826 — Production quotas for controlled substances
• § 826a — Attorney General report on drug shortages
• § 827 — Records and reports of registrants
• § 828 — Order forms
• § 829 — Prescriptions
• § 829a — Delivery of a controlled substance by a pharmacy to an administering practitioner
• § 830 — Regulation of listed chemicals and certain machines
• § 831 — Additional requirements relating to online pharmacies and telemedicine
• § 832 — Suspicious orders
• § 841 — Prohibited acts A
• § 842 — Prohibited acts B
• § 843 — Prohibited acts C
• § 844 — Penalties for simple possession
• § 844a — Civil penalty for possession of small amounts of certain controlled substances
• § 845 to 845b — Transferred
• § 846 — Attempt and conspiracy
• § 847 — Additional penalties
• § 848 — Continuing criminal enterprise
• § 849 — Transportation safety offenses
• § 850 — Information for sentencing
• § 851 — Proceedings to establish prior convictions
• § 852 — Application of treaties and other international agreements
• § 853 — Criminal forfeitures
• § 853a — Transferred
• § 854 — Investment of illicit drug profits
• § 855 — Alternative fine
• § 856 — Maintaining drug-involved premises
• § 857 — Repealed. Pub. L. 101–647, title XXIV, § 2401(d) , Nov. 29, 1990 , 104 Stat. 4859
• § 858 — Endangering human life while illegally manufacturing controlled substance
• § 859 — Distribution to persons under age twenty-one
• § 860 — Distribution or manufacturing in or near schools and colleges
• § 860a — Consecutive sentence for manufacturing or distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture or distribute, methamphetamine on premises where children are present or reside
• § 861 — Employment or use of persons under 18 years of age in drug operations
• § 862 — Denial of Federal benefits to drug traffickers and possessors
• § 862a — Denial of assistance and benefits for certain drug-related convictions
• § 862b — Sanctioning for testing positive for controlled substances
• § 863 — Drug paraphernalia
• § 864 — Anhydrous ammonia
• § 864a — Grants to reduce production of methamphetamines from anhydrous ammonia
• § 865 — Smuggling methamphetamine or methamphetamine precursor chemicals into the United States while using facilitated entry programs
• § 871 — Attorney General
• § 871a — Semiannual reports to Congress
• § 872 — Education and research programs of Attorney General
• § 872a — Public-private education program
• § 873 — Cooperative arrangements
• § 874 — Advisory committees
• § 875 — Administrative hearings
• § 876 — Subpenas
• § 877 — Judicial review
• § 878 — Powers of enforcement personnel
• § 879 — Search warrants
• § 880 — Administrative inspections and warrants
• § 881 — Forfeitures
• § 881–1, 881a — Transferred
• § 882 — Injunctions
• § 883 — Enforcement proceedings
• § 884 — Immunity and privilege
• § 885 — Burden of proof; liabilities
• § 886 — Payments and advances
• § 886a — Diversion Control Fee Account
• § 887 — Coordination and consolidation of post-seizure administration
• § 888 — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–185, § 2(c)(3) , Apr. 25, 2000 , 114 Stat. 210
• § 889 — Production control of controlled substances
• § 890 — Review of Federal sales of chemicals usable to manufacture controlled substances
• § 901 — Severability
• § 902 — Savings provisions
• § 903 — Application of State law
• § 904 — Payment of tort claims
• § 93 — Repealed. May 29, 1928, ch. 901, § 1(92) , 45 Stat. 993
• § 94 to 95 — Transferred
• § 951 — Definitions
• § 952 — Importation of controlled substances
• § 953 — Exportation of controlled substances
• § 954 — Transshipment and in-transit shipment of controlled substances
• § 955 — Possession on board vessels, etc., arriving in or departing from United States
• § 955a to 955d — Transferred
• § 956 — Exemption authority
• § 957 — Persons required to register
• § 958 — Registration requirements
• § 959 — Possession, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substance
• § 96 — Repealed. Pub. L. 90–201, § 18 , Dec. 15, 1967 , 81 Stat. 600
• § 960 — Prohibited acts A
• § 960a — Foreign terrorist organizations, terrorist persons and groups
• § 961 — Prohibited acts B
• § 962 — Second or subsequent offenses
• § 963 — Attempt and conspiracy
• § 964 — Additional penalties
• § 965 — Applicability of part E of subchapter I
• § 966 — Authority of Secretary of the Treasury
• § 967 — Smuggling of controlled substances; investigations; oaths; subpenas; witnesses; evidence; production of records; territorial limits; fees and mileage of witnesses
• § 968 — Service of subpena; proof of service
• § 969 — Contempt proceedings
• § 97 to 97d — Omitted
• § 970 — Criminal forfeitures
• § 971 — Notification, suspension of shipment, and penalties with respect to importation and exportation of listed chemicals
• § 98 — Transferred
• § 99 — Repealed. July 28, 1953, ch. 251 , title I, § 101, 67 Stat. 208