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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 5 — Viruses, Serums, Toxins, Antitoxins, and Analogous Products

§ 157. Inspection

Statutory text

Any officer, agent, or employee of the Department of Agriculture duly authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose may, at any hour during the daytime or nighttime, enter and inspect any establishment where any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product for use in the treatment of domestic animals is prepared for sale, barter, exchange, or shipment as aforesaid.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 62–145 § 1 · 37 Stat. 120

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 157

    Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 833

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 833

  2. Food Security Act of 1985

    Pub. L. 99–198 title XVII § 1768(d) · 99 Stat. 1354

    Struck · 21 U.S.C. § 157

    Pub. L. 99–198 struck out “licensed under this chapter” after “enter and inspect any establishment”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 99–198 struck out “licensed under this chapter” after “enter and inspect any establishment”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (d) The seventh sentence of such paragraph (21 U.S.C. 157) (as it existed before the amendments made by this section) is amended by striking out “licensed under this Act”.

    Effective date note
    Amendment by Pub. L. 99–198 effective Dec. 23, 1985, except as otherwise provided, see section 1768(f) of Pub. L. 99–198, set out as a note under section 151 of this title.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

See note set out under section 151 of this title.

Another section 1768 of Pub. L. 99–198, cited as a credit to this section, amended section 136y of Title 7, Agriculture.

Amendments

1985—Pub. L. 99–198 struck out “licensed under this chapter” after “enter and inspect any establishment”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1985 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 99–198 effective , except as otherwise provided, see section 1768(f) of Pub. L. 99–198, set out as a note under section 151 of this title.

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to agricultural import and entry inspection activities under this chapter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 231, 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.

Credits

1913–1985 · 2 acts
  1. 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 833
  2. 1985Pub. L. 99–198, title XVII, § 1768(d), , 99 Stat. 1655.
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(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 833; Pub. L. 99–198, title XVII, § 1768(d), , 99 Stat. 1655.)

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