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21 U.S.C. § 332 — Injunction proceedings

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21 U.S.C. § 332 — Injunction proceedings

**(a) Jurisdiction of courts** The district courts of the United States and the United States courts of the Territories shall have jurisdiction, for cause shown 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma. to restrain violations of [section 331 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section331&num=0&edition=prelim), except paragraphs (h), (i), and (j). **(b) Violation of injunction** In case of violation of an injunction or restraining order issued under this section, which also constitutes a violation of this chapter, trial shall be by the court, or, upon demand of the accused, by a jury.

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**(a) Jurisdiction of courts** The district courts of the United States and the United States courts of the Territories shall have jurisdiction, for cause shown 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma. to restrain violations of [section 331 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section331&num=0&edition=prelim), except paragraphs (h), (i), and (j). **(b) Violation of injunction** In case of violation of an injunction or restraining order issued under this section, which also constitutes a violation of this chapter, trial shall be by the court, or, upon demand of the accused, by a jury.

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21 U.S.C. § 321 — Definitions; generally

For the purposes of this chapter— **(a)** (1) The term “State”, except as used in the last sentence of [section 372(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section372/a&num=0&edition=prelim), means any State or Territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (2) The term “Territory” means any Territory or possession of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and excluding the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone. **(b)** The term “interstate commerce” means (1) commerce between any State or Territory and any place outside thereof, and (2) commerce within the District of Columbia or within any other Territory not organized with a legislative body. **(c)** The term “Department” means Department of Health and Human Services. **(d)** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. **(e)** The term “person” includes individual, partnership, corporation, and association. **(f)** The term “food” means (1) articles used for food or drink for man or other animals, (2) chewing gum, and (3) articles used for components of any such article. **(g)** (1) The term “drug” means (A) articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia,11 So in original. Probably should be “Pharmacopeia,”. official Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them; and (B) articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals; and (C) articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals; and (D) articles intended for use as a component of any article specif

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21 U.S.C. § 374 — Inspection

**(a) Right of agents to enter; scope of inspection; notice; promptness; exclusions** (1) For purposes of enforcement of this chapter, officers or employees duly designated by the Secretary, upon presenting appropriate credentials and a written notice to the owner, operator, or agent in charge, are authorized (A) to enter, at reasonable times, any factory, warehouse, or establishment in which food, drugs, devices, tobacco products, or cosmetics are manufactured, processed, packed, or held, for introduction into interstate commerce or after such introduction, or to enter any vehicle being used to transport or hold such food, drugs, devices, tobacco products, or cosmetics in interstate commerce; and (B) to inspect, at reasonable times and within reasonable limits and in a reasonable manner, such factory, warehouse, establishment, or vehicle and all pertinent equipment, finished and unfinished materials, containers, and labeling therein. In the case of any person (excluding farms and restaurants) who manufactures, processes, packs, transports, distributes, holds, or imports foods, the inspection shall extend to all records and other information described in [section 350c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section350c&num=0&edition=prelim), when the standard for records inspection under paragraph (1) or (2) of [section 350c(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section350c/a&num=0&edition=prelim) applies, subject to the limitations established in [section 350c(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section350c/d&num=0&edition=prelim). In the case of a facility (as defined in [section 364 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/vi

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21 U.S.C. § 331 — Prohibited acts

The following acts and the causing thereof are prohibited: **(a)** The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any food, drug, device, tobacco product, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded. **(b)** The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, tobacco product, or cosmetic in interstate commerce. **(c)** The receipt in interstate commerce of any food, drug, device, tobacco product, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise. **(d)** The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any article in violation of section 344, 350d, 355,,11 So in original. 360bbb–3, or 364c of this title. **(e)** The refusal to permit access to or copying of any record as required by section 350a, 350c, 350f(j), 350e, 354, 360bbb–3, 364a, 373, 374(a), 379aa, or 379aa–1 of this title; or the failure to establish or maintain any record, or make any report, required under section 350a, 350c(b), 350f, 350e, 354, 355(i) or (k), 360b(a)(4)(C), 360b(j), (l) or (m), 360ccc–1(i), 360e(f), 360i, 360bbb–3, 364a, 364g, 379aa, 379aa–1, 387i, or 387t of this title or the refusal to permit access to or verification or copying of any such required record; or the violation of any recordkeeping requirement under section 2223 22 See References in Text note below. of this title (except when such violation is committed by a farm). **(f)** The refusal to permit entry or inspection as authorized by [section 374 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section374&num=0&edition=prelim). **(g)** The manufacture within any Territory of any food, drug, device, tobacco product, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded. *

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21 U.S.C. § 333 — Penalties

**(a) Violation of [section 331 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section331&num=0&edition=prelim); second violation; intent to defraud or mislead** (1) Any person who violates a provision of [section 331 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section331&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not more than $1,000, or both. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this section,11 So in original. Words “of this section” probably should not appear. if any person commits such a violation after a conviction of him under this section has become final, or commits such a violation with the intent to defraud or mislead, such person shall be imprisoned for not more than three years or fined not more than $10,000, or both. **(b) Prescription drug marketing violations** (1) Notwithstanding subsection (a), any person who violates [section 331(t) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section331/t&num=0&edition=prelim) by— (A) knowingly importing a drug in violation of [section 381(d)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section381/d/1&num=0&edition=prelim), (B) knowingly selling, purchasing, or trading a drug or drug sample or knowingly offering to sell, purchase, or trade a drug or drug sample, in violation of [section 353(c)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section353/c/1&num=0&edition=prelim), (C) knowingly selling, purchasing, or trading a coupon, knowingly offering to sell, purchase, or trade such a coupon, or knowingly counterfeiting such a coupon, in violation of [section

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21 U.S.C. § 334 — Seizure

**(a) Grounds and jurisdiction** (1) Any article of food, drug, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded when introduced into or while in interstate commerce or while held for sale (whether or not the first sale) after shipment in interstate commerce, or which may not, under the provisions of section 331(ll), 344, or 355 of this title, be introduced into interstate commerce, shall be liable to be proceeded against while in interstate commerce, or at any time thereafter, on libel of information and condemned in any district court of the United States or United States court of a Territory within the jurisdiction of which the article is found. No libel for condemnation shall be instituted under this chapter, for any alleged misbranding if there is pending in any court a libel for condemnation proceeding under this chapter based upon the same alleged misbranding, and not more than one such proceeding shall be instituted if no such proceeding is so pending, except that such limitations shall not apply (A) when such misbranding has been the basis of a prior judgment in favor of the United States, in a criminal, injunction, or libel for condemnation proceeding under this chapter, or (B) when the Secretary has probable cause to believe from facts found, without hearing, by him or any officer or employee of the Department that the misbranded article is dangerous to health, or that the labeling of the misbranded article is fraudulent, or would be in a material respect misleading to the injury or damage of the purchaser or consumer. In any case where the number of libel for condemnation proceedings is limited as above provided the proceeding pending or instituted shall, on application of the claimant, seasonably made, be removed for trial to any district agreed upon by stipu

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21 U.S.C. § 381 — Imports and exports

**(a) Imports; list of registered foreign establishments; samples from unregistered foreign establishments; examination and refusal of admission** The Secretary of the Treasury shall deliver to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, upon his request, samples of food, drugs, devices, tobacco products, and cosmetics which are being imported or offered for import into the United States, giving notice thereof to the owner or consignee, who may appear before the Secretary of Health and Human Services and have the right to introduce testimony. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury a list of establishments registered pursuant to subsection (i) of section 360 or [section 387e(h) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section387e/h&num=0&edition=prelim) and shall request that if any drugs, devices, or tobacco products manufactured, prepared, propagated, compounded, or processed in an establishment not so registered are imported or offered for import into the United States, samples of such drugs, devices, or tobacco products be delivered to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with notice of such delivery to the owner or consignee, who may appear before the Secretary of Health and Human Services and have the right to introduce testimony. If it appears from the examination of such samples or otherwise that (1) such article has been manufactured, processed, or packed under insanitary conditions or, in the case of a device, the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, the manufacture, packing, storage, or installation of the device do not conform to the requirements of [section 360j(f) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim

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21 U.S.C. § 332 — Injunction proceedings

Page 56 TITLE 21—FOOD AND DRUGS § 332 1 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma. 1 So in original. Words ‘‘of this section’’ probably should not appear. restrictions under such section 301(ddd) that have begun to apply under subsection (b) [set out as a note above].’’ Executive Documents TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of functions of Federal Security Admin- istrator to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare [now Health and Human Services], and of Food and Drug Administration in the Department of Agriculture to Federal Security Agency, see notes set out under section 321 of this title. § 332. Injunction proceedings (a) Jurisdiction of courts The district courts of the United States and the United States courts of the Territories shall have jurisdiction, for cause shown 1 to restrain violations of section 331 of this title, except paragraphs (h), (i), and (j). (b) Violation of injunction In case of violation of an injunction or re- straining order issued under this section, which also constitutes a violation of this chapter, trial shall be by the court, or, upon demand of the ac- cused, by a jury. (June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 302, 52 Stat. 1043; Pub. L. 87–781, title I, § 103(d), title II, § 201(c), Oct. 10, 1962, 76 Stat. 784, 793; Pub. L. 103–80, § 3(d), Aug. 13, 1993, 107 Stat. 775.) Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 1993—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–80, § 3(d)(1), struck out ‘‘, and subject to the provisions of section 17 (relating to notice to opposite party) of the Act entitled ‘An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes’, approved Oc- tober 15, 1914, as amended (U.S.C., 1934 ed., title 28, sec. 381),’’ after ‘‘for cause shown’’. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–80, § 3(d

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