Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 4 — Animals, Meats, and Meat and Dairy Products
§ 141. Prohibition of importation without permit
Statutory text
On and after , the importation into the United States of milk and cream is prohibited unless the person by whom such milk or cream is shipped or transported into the United States holds a valid permit from the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 69–155 § 1 · 44 Stat. 300
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 141
Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 1, 44 Stat. 1101
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 1, 44 Stat. 1101Enacted provision · exact public law section
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1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Short Title
Act July 12, 1943, ch. 221, title II, 57 Stat. 499, provided in part that act , which is classified to this subchapter, may be cited as “Import Milk Act”.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of Federal Security Administrator to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare [now Health and Human Services], and of Food and Drug Administration to Federal Security Agency, see notes set out under section 321 of this title.
Credits
1927–1979 · 4 acts
- 1927Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 1, 44 Stat. 1101
- 19401940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, § 12, eff. , 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1237
- 19531953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 5, eff. , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631
- 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.
Show as published
(Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 1, 44 Stat. 1101; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, § 12, eff. , 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1237; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 5, eff. , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.)