Volume 62
Public Law 80–613
To amend sections 301 (k) and 304 (a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended.
Approved June 24, 1948
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend sections 301 (k) and 304 (a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (k) of section 301 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended (21 U. S. C. 331 (k)), is amended to read as follows:
“(k) Removal of label, etc.
The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to, a food, drug, device, or cosmetic, if such act is done while such article is held for sale (whether or not the first sale) after shipment in interstate commerce and results in such article being adulterated or misbranded.”
Sec. 2.
Subsection (a) of section 304 of such Act, as amended (21
U. S. C. 334 (a)), is amended by inserting immediately after the words “when introduced into or while in interstate commerce” the following: “or while held for sale (whether or not the first sale) after shipment in interstate commerce”.
Approved June 24, 1948.