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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 1 — Adulterated or Misbranded Foods or Drugs

§ 16. Introduction into, or sale in, State or Territory or District of Columbia of dairy or food products falsely labeled or branded

Statutory text

No person or persons, company or corporation, shall introduce into any State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia from any other State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, or sell in the District of Columbia or in any Territory any dairy or food products which shall be falsely labeled or branded as to the State or Territory in which they are made, produced, or grown, or cause or procure the same to be done by others.

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. 57–1357 § 1 · 32 Stat. 632

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 16

    (July 1, 1902, ch. 1357, § 1, 32 Stat. 632.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 1, 1902, ch. 1357, § 1, 32 Stat. 632.)

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

Credits

(July 1, 1902, ch. 1357, § 1, 32 Stat. 632.)

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